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The Standard Model quiver in de Sitter string compactifications

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Cicoli, M. 
García Etxebarria, I. 
Quevedo, F. 
Shukla, P. 

Abstract

Abstract: We argue that the Standard Model quiver can be embedded into compact Calabi-Yau geometries through orientifolded D3-branes at del Pezzo singularities dPn with n ≥ 5 in a framework including moduli stabilisation. To illustrate our approach, we explicitly construct a local dP5 model via a combination of Higgsing and orientifolding. This procedure reduces the original dP5 quiver gauge theory to the Left-Right symmetric model with three families of quarks and leptons as well as a Higgs sector to further break the symmetries to the Standard Model gauge group. We embed this local model in a globally consistent Calabi-Yau flux compactification with tadpole and Freed-Witten anomaly cancellations. The model features closed string moduli stabilisation with a de Sitter minimum from T-branes, supersymmetry broken by the Kähler moduli, and the MSSM as the low energy spectrum. We further discuss phenomenological and cosmological implications of this construction.

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics, D-branes, Flux compactifications, Superstring Vacua

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Journal of High Energy Physics

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1029-8479

Volume Title

2021

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg