Towers and hierarchies in the Standard Model from Emergence in Quantum Gravity

Based on Quantum Gravity arguments, it has been suggested that all kinetic terms of light particles below the UV cut-off could arise in the IR via quantum (loop) corrections. These loop corrections involve infinite towers of states becoming light (e.g. Kaluza-Klein or string towers). We study implic...

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Autores: Castellano, Alberto, Herráez Escudero, Alvaro, Ibañez Santiago, Luis Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/714221
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/714221
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)172
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Effective field theories
extra dimensions
string and brane phenomenology
superstring vacua
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Sumario:Based on Quantum Gravity arguments, it has been suggested that all kinetic terms of light particles below the UV cut-off could arise in the IR via quantum (loop) corrections. These loop corrections involve infinite towers of states becoming light (e.g. Kaluza-Klein or string towers). We study implications of this Emergence Proposal for fundamental scales in the Standard Model (SM). In this scheme all Yukawa couplings are of order one in the UV and small Yukawas for lighter generations appear via large anomalous dimensions induced by the towers of states. Thus, the observed hierarchies of quark and lepton masses are a reflection of the structure of towers of states that lie below the Quantum Gravity scale, ΛQG. Small Dirac neutrino masses consistent with experimental observation appear due to the existence of a tower of SM singlet states of mass m 0 ≃ Yν3 Mp ≃ 7 × 105 GeV, opening up a new extra dimension, while the UV cut-off occurs at ΛQG ≲ 1014 GeV. Additional constraints relating the Electro-Weak (EW) and cosmological constant (c.c.) scales (denoted M EW and V 0) appear if the Swampland condition mν1 ≲ V01/4 is imposed (with ν 1 denoting the lightest neutrino), which itself arises upon applying the AdS non-SUSY Conjecture or the AdS/dS Distance Conjecture to the 3d vacua from circle compactifications of the SM. In particular, the EW scale and that of the extra dimension fulfill m 0 M EW ≲ 102 V01/4 Mp, thus relating the EW hierarchy problem to that of the c.c. Hence, all fundamental scales may be written as powers of the c.c., i.e. m• ∼ V0δMp1−4δ . The scale of SUSY breaking is m 3/2 ≲ 7 × 105 GeV, which favours a Mini-Split scenario that could be possibly tested at LHC and/or FCC