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hep-ph2007★ 23 cited
Cascading to the MSSM
Jonathan J. Heckman, Cumrun Vafa, Herman Verlinde +1
The MSSM can arise as an orientifold of a pyramid-like quiver in the context of intersecting D-branes. Here we consider quiver realizations of the MSSM which can emerge at the bott…
hep-th2007★ 20 cited
A Higher Form (of) Mediation
Herman Verlinde, Lian-Tao Wang, Martijn Wijnholt +1
We exhibit a simple and robust mechanism for mediation of supersymmetry breaking between geometrically separated D-branes in type II string theory. The mediation proceeds via RR p-…
hep-th2007★ 17 cited
Geometry of Particle Physics
Martijn Wijnholt
We explain how to construct a large class of new quiver gauge theories from branes at singularities by orientifolding and Higgsing old examples. The new models include the MSSM, de…