The landscape of free fermionic gauge models.

A software framework is developed 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. We first provide a brisk introduction to heterotic strings and the spin-structure construction of free fermionic models. Three systematic surveys are then presented, and we conjecture that these surveys are exhaustive modulo redundancies. Finally we present 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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Moore, Douglas G., 1988-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Cleaver, Gerald B.

• String theory.
• Landscape surveys.
• Heterotic strings.
• Free fermionic.
• Gauge models.
• Gauge framework.

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Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/2104/9090

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:baylor-ir.tdl.org:2104/9090