Anomaly Nucleation Constrains SU(2) Gauge Theories

作者:Halverson James*
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2013, 111(26): 261601.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.261601

摘要

We argue for the existence of additional constraints on SU(2) gauge theories in four dimensions when realized in ultraviolet completions admitting an analog of D-brane nucleation. In type II string compactifications these constraints are necessary and sufficient for the absence of cubic non-Abelian anomalies in certain nucleated SU(N > 2) theories. It is argued that they appear quite broadly in the string landscape. Implications for particle physics are discussed; most realizations of the standard model in this context are inconsistent, unless extra electroweak fermions are added.

  • 出版日期2013-12-27
  • 单位中国科学院理论物理研究所

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