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Supersymmetric Intersecting Branes on the Type IIA T6/Bbb Z4 Orientifold

Ralph Blumenhagen1, Lars Görlich1 and Tassilo Ott1

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We study supersymmetric intersecting D6-branes wrapping 3-cycles in the type-IIA T6/Bbb Z4 orientifold background. As a new feature, the 3-cycles in this orbifold space arise both from the untwisted and the Bbb Z2 twisted sectors. We present an integral basis for the homology lattice, H3(M,Bbb Z), in terms of fractional 3-cycles, for which the intersection form involves the Cartan matrix of E8. We show that these fractional D6-branes can be used to construct supersymmetric brane configurations realizing a three generation Pati-Salam model. Via brane recombination processes preserving supersymmetry, this GUT model can be broken down to a standard-like model.


Keywords

Superstring Vacua

D-branes

Conformal Field Models in String Theory

PACS

11.25.Uv D branes

11.15.Ex Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries

12.10.-g Unified field theories and models

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.10.Cd Axiomatic approach

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

MSC

81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) (See also 83E30)

32Q25 Calabi-Yau theory

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 01 (January 2003)

Received 22 November 2002, accepted for publication 13 January 2003

Published 7 February 2003



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