Conformality and Unification of Gauge Couplings

TL;DR

This paper explores models derived from the AdS/CFT correspondence on orbifolds that can incorporate the standard model, assuming conformal invariance at a TeV-scale fixed point, with implications for TeV-scale unification.

Contribution

It introduces a framework using AdS/CFT on orbifolds to construct models that include the standard model and assumes conformal invariance at TeV energies, proposing a novel approach to unification.

Findings

Models can contain the standard model of particle physics.

Assumption of conformal invariance at TeV scale.

Application to TeV unification briefly discussed.

Abstract

By use of the AdS/CFT correspondence on orbifolds, models are derived which can contain the standard model of particle phenomenology. It will be assumed that the theory becomes conformally invariant at a renormalization-group fixed-point in the TeV region. A recent application to TeV unification is briefly mentioned.