Standard model gauge fields localized on non-Abelian vortices in six dimensions
Standard model gauge fields localized on non-Abelian vortices in six dimensions
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六维非阿贝尔涡上的标准模型规范场
DOI:
10.1093/ptep/ptab144
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Sakai Norisuke
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作者:
Arai Masato;Blaschke Filip;Eto Minoru;Kawaguchi Masaki;Sakai Norisuke
A brane-worldSU(5) grand unified theory model with global non-Abelian vortices is constructed in six-dimensional spacetime. We find a solution with a vortex associated toSU(3) separated from another vortex associated toSU(2). This 3–2 split configuration achieves a geometric Higgs mechanism forSU(5) →SU(3) ×SU(2) ×U(1) symmetry breaking. A simple deformation potential induces a domain wall between non-Abelian vortices, leading to a linear confining potential. The confinement stabilizes the vortex separation moduli, and ensures the vorticities of theSU(3) andSU(2) groups are identical. This dictates the equality of the numbers of fermion zero modes in the fundamental representation ofSU(3) (quarks) andSU(2) (leptons), leading to quark/lepton generations. The standard model massless gauge fields are localized on the non-Abelian vortices thanks to a field-dependent gauge kinetic function. We perform fluctuation analysis with an appropriate gauge fixing and obtain a four-dimensional effective Lagrangian of unbroken and broken gauge fields at quadratic order. We find thatSU(3) ×SU(2) ×U(1) gauge fields are localized on the vortices and exactly massless. Complications in analyzing the spectra of gauge fields with the nontrivial gauge kinetic function are neatly worked out by a vector-analysis-like method.