Getting just the Supersymmetric Standard Model at Intersecting Branes on the Z6-orientifold

TL;DR

This paper constructs a class of supersymmetric intersecting brane models on the Z6-orientifold that naturally realize the Standard Model gauge group and spectrum, providing insights into Higgs superpartners and hypercharge masslessness.

Contribution

It identifies a unique class of five-stack intersecting brane models on the Z6-orientifold that exactly reproduce the supersymmetric Standard Model without exotic matter.

Findings

Models have the same chiral spectrum matching the SM

Higgs superpartner and hypercharge properties are naturally explained

Aesthetic models with intersection numbers of absolute value three

Abstract

In this paper, globally N=1 supersymmetric configurations of intersecting D6-branes on the Z6-orientifold are discussed, involving also fractional branes. It turns out rather miraculously that one is led almost automatically to just ONE particular class of 5 stack models containing the SM gauge group, which all have the same chiral spectrum. The further discussion shows that these models can be understood as exactly the supersymmetric standard model without any exotic chiral symmetric/antisymmetric matter. The superpartner of the Higgs finds a natural explanation and the hypercharge remains massless. However, the non-chiral spectrum within the model class is very different and does not in all cases allow for a N=2 low energy field theoretical understanding of the necessary breaking U(1)xU(1)->U(1) along the Higgs branch, which is needed in order to get the standard Yukawa couplings. Also the left-right symmetric models belong to exactly one class of chiral spectra, where the two kinds of exotic chiral fields can have the interpretation of forming a composite Higgs. The aesthetical beauty of these models, involving only non-vanishing intersection numbers of an absolute value three, seems to be unescapable.