The Landscape of Free Fermionic Gauge Models

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-24616-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 102 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Springer Theses

In this thesis, the author describes the development of a software framework to systematically construct a particular class of weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string models, dubbed gauge models. In their purest form, these models are maximally supersymmetric (N = 4), and thus only contain superpartners in their matter sector. This feature makes their systematic construction particularly efficient, and they are thus useful in their simplicity.  The thesis first provides a brisk introduction to heterotic strings and the spin-structure construction of free fermionic models. Three systematic surveys are then presented, and it is conjectured that these surveys are exhaustive modulo redundancies. Finally, the author presents a collection of metaheuristic algorithms for searching the landscape for models with a user-specified spectrum of phenomenological properties, e.g. gauge group and number of spacetime supersymmetries. Such algorithms provide the groundwork for extended generic free fermionic surveys.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Douglas G.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Introduction to Superstrings.- Heterotic Strings and the Free Fermionic Construction.- Surveys of Gauge Models.- Landscape Surveys Through Metaheuristic Algorithms.- Appendix A: The Gauge Framework.- Appendix B: Layer One Statistics.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Douglas Moore is currently with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, having gained his Ph.D. at Baylor University in 2014.