Faraggi, Alon E 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7123-6414
(1994)
Realistic Superstring Models.
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Abstract
I discuss the construction of realistic superstring standard--like models in the four dimensional free fermionic formulation. I discuss the massless spectrum of the superstring standard--like models and the texture of fermion mass matrices. These models suggest an explanation for the top quark mass hierarchy. At the cubic level of the superpotential only the top quark get a mass term. The lighter quarks and leptons obtain their mass terms from nonrenormalizable terms that are suppressed relative to the cubic order term. A numerical estimate yielded $m_t\sim175-180~GeV$. The suppression of the lightest generation masses results from the horizontal symmetries in the superstring models. The problems of neutrino masses, gauge coupling unification and hierarchical SUSY breaking are discussed. I argue that the realistic features of these models are due to the underlying $Z_2\times Z_2$ orbifold, with standard embedding, at the free fermionic point in toroidal compactification space.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified) |
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| Additional Information: | IASSNS-HEP-94/31, 20 pages, phyzzx |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | hep-ph, hep-ph, hep-th |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2016 07:30 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 07:36 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3001363 |
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