Non-Higgsable QCD and the standard model spectrum in F-theory

Many four-dimensional supersymmetric compactifications of F-theory contain gauge groups that cannot be spontaneously broken through geometric deformations. These “non-Higgsable clusters” include realizations of SU(3), SU(2), and SU(3) × SU(2), but no SU(n) gauge groups or factors with n > 3. We s...

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Main Authors: Grassi, Antonella, Halverson, James, Shaneson, Julius, Taylor, Washington
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96817
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-6706