TOWARDS THE STANDARD MODEL SPECTRUM FROM ELLIPTIC CALABI–YAU MANIFOLDS

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Abstract
We show that it is possible to construct supersymmetric three-generation models with the Standard Model gauge group in the framework of non-simply-connected elliptically fibered Calabi–Yau threefolds, without section but with a bi-section. The fibrations on a cover Calabi–Yau threefold, where the model has six generations of SU(5) and the bundle is given via the spectral cover description, use a different description of the elliptic fiber which leads to more than one global section. We present two examples of a possible cover Calabi–Yau threefold with a free involution: one is a fiber product of rational elliptic surfaces dP9; another example is an elliptic fibration over a Hirzebruch surface. We compute the necessary amount of chiral matter by "turning on" a further parameter which is related to singularities of the fibration and the branching of the spectral cover.