Constructing the supersymmetric Standard Model from intersecting D6-branes on the [formula omitted] orientifold

Abstract

Intersecting stacks of supersymmetric fractional branes on the Z6′ orientifold may be used to construct the supersymmetric Standard Model. If a,b are the stacks that generate the SU(3)colour and SU(2)L gauge particles, then, in order to obtain just the chiral spectrum of the (supersymmetric) Standard Model (with non-zero Yukawa couplings to the Higgs multiplets), it is necessary that the number of intersections a∩b of the stacks a and b, and the number of intersections a∩b′ of a with the orientifold image b′ of b satisfy (a∩b,a∩b′)=(2,1) or (1,2). It is also necessary that there is no matter in symmetric representations of the gauge group, and not too much matter in antisymmetric representations, on either stack. Fractional branes having all of these properties may be constructed on the Z6′ orientifold. We provide a number of new examples having these properties, some of which may be extended to give the Standard Model spectrum. Specifically, we construct four-stack models with two further stacks, each with just a single brane, which have the matter spectrum of the supersymmetric Standard Model, including a single pair of Higgs doublets, plus three right-chiral neutrino singlets. Ramond–Ramond tadpole cancellation is achieved by the introduction of background H¯3 flux, the 3-form field strength associated with the Kalb–Ramond 2-form field B2. There remains a single unwanted gauged U(1)B−L.