28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
US/Central timezone
Slides available on Indico -- there are no formal proceedings

Stringy Quivers: Constraints on Chiral Matter and Systematic Phenomenological Searches

28 Aug 2011, 12:35
25m
B: Curia II, Wilson Hall 2SW

B: Curia II, Wilson Hall 2SW

Speaker

Mr James Halverson (University of Pennsylvania)

Description

MSSM-like quiver gauge theories naturally arise in D-brane compactifications and make up a subset of the data necessary to fully specify a string vacuum of this type. In addition to requiring field theoretic anomaly cancellation, consistency of the string theory requires that the chiral spectrum of a quiver satisfy additional constraints not present in field theory, rendering many quivers with the exact MSSM spectrum inconsistent. For those consistent quivers with the MSSM spectrum, I present systematic studies of their non-perturbative effects and phenomenology including mass hierarchies, R-parity violation, new possibilities for neutrino mass, and solutions to the mu-problem. For those MSSM quivers which are inconsistent, I present a systematic analysis of possible chiral matter additions which would render them consistent and discuss implications for U(1)' symmetries.

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