Type 0¯ heterotic string orbifolds
The Z2×Z2 heterotic string orbifold gives rise to a large space of phenomenological three generation models that serves as a testing ground to explore how the Standard Model of particle physics may be incorporated in a theory of quantum gravity. Recently, we demonstrated the existence of type 0 Z2×Z...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physics letters. B 2021-03, Vol.814, p.136080, Article 136080 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The Z2×Z2 heterotic string orbifold gives rise to a large space of phenomenological three generation models that serves as a testing ground to explore how the Standard Model of particle physics may be incorporated in a theory of quantum gravity. Recently, we demonstrated the existence of type 0 Z2×Z2 heterotic string orbifolds in which there are no massless fermionic states. In this paper we demonstrate the existence of non–supersymmetric tachyon–free Z2×Z2 heterotic string orbifolds that do not contain any massless bosonic states from the twisted sectors. We dub these configurations type 0¯ models. They necessarily contain untwisted bosonic states, producing the gravitational, gauge and scalar moduli degrees of freedom, but possess an excess of massless fermionic states over bosonic ones, hence producing a positive cosmological constant. Such configurations may be instrumental when trying to understand the string dynamics in the early universe. |
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ISSN: | 0370-2693 1873-2445 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136080 |