SUPERSTRING MODELS CHALLENGED BY RARE PROCESSES

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Superstring models compactified on Calabi–Yau manifolds contain additional matter fields and gauge bosons beyond those in the Standard Model. The new matter and gauge couplings would make additional contributions to conventional electroweak processes, generate extra flavor-changing neutral interactions, and mediate new interactions leading to proton decay and neutrino masses. We use the phenomenological constraints on such effects to derive upper bounds on Yukawa couplings in low-energy dynamical models inspired by the superstring. We draw attention to the processes which give the best bounds on new Yukawa couplings, and which are those where novel superstring effects might first appear as experimental sensitivity is improved. Our bounds are not sufficient to exclude most superstring models with additional light particles, but do suggest that some couplings are too small to realize certain scenarios for symmetry breaking by radiative corrections.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: