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1 Towards Realistic Models! in String Theory! with D-branes Noriaki Kitazawa! Tokyo Metropolitan University

2 Plan of Lectures. Basic idea to construct realistic models! - a brief review of string world-sheet theory! - the basics of D-branes! - the realization of chiral fermions!!. Construction of models without supersymmetry! - "brane supersymmetry breaking"! - NS-NS tadpole problem and back reactions! - dynamics of gauge symmetry breaking!! 3. Stabilization of compact spaces! - a sketch of KKLT scenario! - other idea with magnetic fluxes on D-branes! - dynamical stabilization by fractional branes

3 "Brane supersymmetry breaking" 3

4 Orientifold projection: projection by world-sheet parity World-sheet parity transformation is the symmetry in type IIB theory. :!,! (closed string) :!,!, ij! ( ) ii 0 j 0 i 0 ( ) j 0 j (open string) In complex coordinates: : z! z, z! z, (closed string) or X µ (z, z) = X µ ( z,z) etc. : z! z, z! z, ij! ( ) ii 0 j 0 i 0 ( ) j 0 j (open string) or X µ (z, z) = X µ ( z, z) etc. 4

5 Transformations of creation and annihilation operators closed string µ m = µ m µ m = µ m µ r = e i r µ r µ r = e i r µ r b m = b m c m = c m b m = b m c m = c m r = e i r r r = e i r r r = e i r r r = e i r r 5

6 Transformation of closed string (type IIB) ground states 0; 0; ki NS NS = 0; 0; ki NS NS s + ; s 0 +; ki R R = s 0 +; s + ; ki R R 0; s + ; ki NS R = s + ; 0; ki R NS s + ; 0; ki R NS = 0; s + ; ki NS R Massless states in NS-NS sector µ / / 0; 0; ki NS NS = µ / / 0; 0; ki NS NS = µ / / 0; 0; ki NS NS Anti-symmetric B µ field is projected out Massless states in NS-R and R-NS sector µ / 0; s +; ki NS R = µ / s +; 0; ki R NS µ / s +; 0; ki R NS = µ / 0; s +; ki NS R A combination of (NS-R)+(R-NS) survives! and one of two gravitino is projected out. 0D N= SUSY is reduced to 0D N= SUSY. 6

7 Transformations of creation and annihilation operators open string (Neumann-Neumann b.c.) m µ = e i m m µ µ r = e i r µ r b m = e i m b m c m = e i m c m r = e i r r r = e i r r Transformation of ground states k; iji NS = i( ) ii 0 k; j 0 i 0 i NS ( ) j 0 j s + ; k; iji R = ( ) ii 0 s + ; k; j 0 i 0 i R ( ) j 0 j Transformation of massless states µ / k; iji NS = µ / ( ) ii 0 k; j 0 i 0 i NS ( ) j 0 j s + ; k; iji R = ( ) ii 0 s + ; k; j 0 i 0 i R ( ) j 0 j 7

8 Transformations of massless states (cont.) µ / k; iji NS = µ / ( ) ii 0 k; j 0 i 0 i NS ( ) j 0 j s + ; k; iji R = ( ) ii 0 s + ; k; j 0 i 0 i R ( ) j 0 j Two choices of the action to Chan-Paton factor ( ) ii 0 j 0 i 0 i( = ) j 0 j = jii Chan-Paton factor! should be anti-symmetric: U(N)! SO(N) ( ) ii 0 j 0 i 0 i( = 0 0 ) j 0 j = jii Chan-Paton factor! with jii 0 0 should be symmetric: U(N)! USp(N) 0D N= SUSY remains. 8

9 Construction of type I string theory Unoriented closed string with D=0 N= SUSY! can couple with open string with D=0 N= SUSY Introduction of open string with Chan-Paton factor! = Introduction of n D9-branes Closed string massless states (unoriented type IIB theory) (NS+ NS+) (R+ R+) (NS+ R+) (R+ NS+) '+56 8'+56,B µ,g µ C, C µ,c µ 8'+56 Open string massless states NS R 8 8 A a µ a The gauge group is fixed! by tadpole cancelations. 9

10 Vacuum amplitudes (closed string) A closed = Z F d 4 tr + P GSO PGSO q L0 q L 0 torus Klein bottle T = iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 Z F d 5 ( ) 6 V 8( ) S 8 ( ) K = iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 Z dt t t 5 (it) 8 (V 8(it) S 8 (it)) 0 ("cylinder with modulus t" due to projection (left=right, effectively)) V n ( ) ( 3( )) n ( 4 ( )) n ( ( )) n S n ( ) ( ( )) n ( ( )) n ( ( )) n "NS sector" "R sector" 0

11 Vacuum amplitudes (open string) A open = Z 0 dt t tr + P GSO q L 0 cylinder Möbius strip A = M = iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 Z 0 Z 0 dt t dt t t 5 (it/) 8 n (V 8(it/) S 8 (it/)) n t 5 ( + i t V 8 ( )8 + i t ) S 8( + i t ) q! qe i (projection makes by r µ = e i r ) µ r n : number of D9-branes { = : SO type projection = : USp type projection

12 Change variables of integrations to closed string picture K = A = M = iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 Z 0 Z 0 Z 0 dl dl ( dl (il) 8 5 (V 8(il) S 8 (il)) (il) 8 5 n n + il)8 (V 8 (il) S 8 (il)) V 8 ( + il) S 8( + il) Anomaly (gravitational) cancelation requires! cancelation of massless Ramond-Ramond tadpoles. Therefore, n n =0 (n 5 ) =0 = and n = 5 and the gauge group is SO(3). Massless NS-NS tadpoles are canceled simultaneously by SUSY.

13 A schematic picture of tadpole cancelation + + = 0 "cross cap" D9 D9 D9 O9 O9 O9 We may introduce orientifold fixed planes! which have R-R and NS-NS charges,! though they are not dynamical objects. 3

14 A simple model of "brane supersymmetry breaking":! USp(3) type I model or Sugimoto model. Consider n anti-d9-branes.! The sign of RR sector in Möbius amplitude is flipped. M = iv 0 (4 0 ) 5 Z 0 dl ( n + il)8 V 8 ( + il)+s 8( + il) Take USp type orientifold: =, then R-R tadpoles are canceled,! though NS-NS tadpoles are not canceled. This is a consistent model with USp(3) gauge symmetry,! but there is no supersymmetry in open string sector. On anti-d9-branes there are USp(3) gauge bosons 58 and! fermions in anti-symmetric tensor representation 496=495+.! (An additional (-) sign in orientifold projection of R states! is required for the open string on anti-d-branes) 4

15 Brane supersymmetry breaking without orientifold Four D3-branes and Three anti-d7-branes! on a Z 3 orbifold singularity z z z 3 Z 3 operation matrices on each D-brane 3 = diag(,, ) U() U() U() 7 3 = 3 U(3) ( e i /3 ) The condition of twisted R-R tadpole cancelation is satisfied. 3Tr( 3 ) Tr( 7 3 )=0 5

16 "untwisted" and "twisted" closed strings untwisted actually closed twisted closed up to orbifold! transformation Cancelation of R-R tadpoles of twisted closed string! is required for the cancelation of gauge anomaly.! Cancelations of NS-NS tadpoles are not necessary! for anomaly cancelations ("consistency") of the theory. 6

17 Massless modes under U() U(3) U() + D3-D3 open string (supersymmetric) non-anomalous ( a, a ) : (, ) +, ( a, a ) : (, ) 0, ( a 3, a 3) : (, ). a =,, 3 3 D3-anti-D7 open string (non-susy) : (, 3 ) 0, : (, 3) 0, : (, 3), : (, 3 ) +, 7

18 NS-NS tadpole problem and back reactions 8

19 In general string models without supersymmetry have! tadpoles of massless dilaton and graviton (NS-NS sector). Background geometry and field configurations,! which are assumed to be trivial at the beginning,! are not the "solution" of String Theory,! or "back reaction" is not included. This could be cured by "Fishler-Susskind mechanism",! but it would be very difficult to do it in general. It could be even possible that the present understanding of! "brane supersymmetry breaking" would be incomplete. 9

20 There is a more practical difficulty. Open-string one-loop calculations get infrared divergences. [ lim p 0 p Some reasonable technique to evade these divergences?! tadpole resummations 0

21 Tadpole resummations in field theory by Dudas-Nicolosi-Pradisi-Sagnotti (005) Possibility to obtain true values of physical quantities! in "wrong vacua": vacuum energy, for example wrong vacua V = 4a(v v f )v f + tadpole V res = V f V f + V res =0 The same is possible in String Theory?

22 Similar resummations are possible in String Theory! using boundary state formalism N.K. (008) This technique gives one positive result: The vacuum energy of a "Dp-brane" in Bosonic String Theory! is canceled by the tree-level contribution! from tadpole resummations, cl p + res p =0 ( cl p = T p ) which is consistent with Sen s conjecture of! "Dp-brane decay in Bosonic String Theory",! or "tachyon condensation.

23 Boundary State Formalism For simplicity we consider Bosonic String Theory,! although the same is applicable to Superstring Theory. The cylinder amplitude open string! closed string! one loop tree Dp-brane! boundary state! B p D B p second order of! tadpole insertion propagator! operator 3

24 The concrete form of boundary states B p i = B X p i B gh i,! X Bp X d i = N? p (ˆx)exp n µ ns µ n 0i, n=! X B gh i =exp (c n b n b n c n ) 0i gh n= ij ) S µ (, d? d (p + ) d 6 N p T p / These are solution of boundary X (, = 0) B p i =0, =0,,,p X i (, = 0) B p i =0, i = p +,p+,, 5 : Neumann (open string) : Dirichlet (open string) (conformal transformation from open to closed gives!.) These are something like coherent states. 4

25 The Cylinder Amplitude! or one-loop correction to the vacuum energy of Dp-brane A p =! B p D B p =! V p+n p p D 0 4 Z 0 dt Z 0 d' z L0 z L 0 (z = e t e i' ) p propagator = 0 0 ds ds d d p ( ) d ( s) d / e p s ( (is)) 4 ( (is)) 4 d d (p + ) with d = 6 Infrared divergence due to massless tadpoles! of dilaton, graviton and tachyon (we will see ot later). 5

26 Tadpole couplings from boundary states A µ 0; k a µ ã B p = T p V p+s µ S µ (, ij ) A grav = A µ (h) µ = V p+ T p (h), A dil = A µ ( ) µ = V p+ T p a. a d p 4 d D-brane effective action in Einstein frame S Dp = T p d p+ e a det g ignoring B-field! and gauge field L dil = T p e a = T p + T p a! T p a + 3! T p a 3 3 cl p = T p vacuum energy

27 A strategy for tadpole resummations p = cl p = Closed strings bouncing on a Dp-brane 7

28 Multi-point vertices in boundary state formalism T p a ˆM d d x d (x) B p (x) ( T p ) B p (x) integrating over Dp-brane world volume B p (x) T p p+ (ˆx x) B p x normalization! for correct coupling specify one point! on Dp-brane T p a T p ( T p ) d d x d (x) T p a V p+ 8

29 Similar for three-point vertex and higher T p a 3 ˆM (3) 3! T p N p T p 3 d d x d (x) B p (x) B p (x) B p (x) Closer look at propagator p = 0 ds ds ( s) d / ( (is)) 4 ( s) d / e s O(e s ) tachyon! tadpole dilaton/graviton! tadpoles Regularize via an ultraviolet cutoff on s 9

30 Actual calculations for vacuum energies Full two-point function = one bounce! B p D ˆMD B p =! =! V p+n p d d x d (x) B p D B p (x) ( T p ) B p (x) D B p N p T p Similar for two bounces, and more A () p =!! B p D M B p =! V p+n p ( T p )( p) B p D B p + B p D ˆMD B p + B p D ˆMD ˆMD B p + geometric series p +T p (N p /T p ) p! V p+t p similar to the cylinder () p =! T p 30

31 Full three-point function A (3) p = 3! T p = 3! V p+t p d d x d (x) B p D M B 3 p (x) (N p /T p ) p +T p (N p /T p ) p vertex 3! = 3! 3 3! V p+t p 3! # of! contractions 3! third order of! tadpole! insertions Full Vacuum Energy of Dp-brane (3) p = 3! T p res p A () p + A (3) p + = T p n= n(n + ) = /V p+ T p exactly cancels cl p = T p Consistent with Sen s conjecture 3

32 Two Consistency Checks ) "Tadpole resummations" in SO(89) theory 89 D5-branes in unoriented Bosonic String Theory! -> (unstable) "solution" of String Theory no tadpoles of dilaton and graviton! tachyon (with tadpole) "Tadpole resumations" should not give corrections to! the vacuum energy, even though tachyon exists,! because this is a solution of String Theory. 3

33 Two kinds of boundary states and three kinds of amplitudes B 5 and C 5 for orientifold! fixed plane: O5 A =! B 5 D B 5 M =! ( B 5 D C 5 + C 5 D B 5 ) K =! C 5 D C 5 Full cylinder amplitude with bouncing on D5 and O5 A () =! V 6N 5 0 (the same for the! other two amplitudes) 5 +T 5 (N 5 /T 5 ) 5 T 5 (N 5 /T 5 ) 5 No Correction to Vacuum Energy (Ignoring tachyon divergence -> A () + M () + K () =0, and the same for multi-point functions. No correction to the vacuum energy.) 33

34 ) "Tadpole resummations" in USp(3) type I model USp(3) type I model is believed to be stable, and! anti-d9-brane is not expected to decay. NS-NS tadpoles (dilaton and graviton)! no tachyon "Tadpole resummations" should not give! such a correction to the D9-brane vacuum energy! that completely cancels the classical vacuum energy,! even though the system is not a "solution". A () =! V 0N9 0 NS +T 9 (N 9 /T 9 ) NS +T 9 (N 9 /T 9 ) NS No correction to anti-d9-brane vacuum energy 34

35 Problems and limitations of this procedure ) On the relation with open-string field theory analysis! on "tachyon condensation" of D5-brane From Taylor-Zwiebach (hep-th/0307): tachyon potential! (tachyon mode only) V ( ) = + µ 3 E corr vac 0.68T 5 a level truncation: s = 0 + B( ) 0 + (b c ) 0 + V = + 6B + µ B 9 + E corr vac T 5 B 4 heavy modes are! integrated out 35

36 Open string massive modes are important in the analysis! of "tachyon condensation" using open-string field theory.! Their role is not evident in the procedure of! "tadpole resummations". One we can say:!! Open-closed string duality, which is essential! in the procedure of "tadpole resummations",! requires infinite number of open string modes.! The effects of open string massive modes are! implicitly included. 36

37 ) Gravitational back reactions The procedure of "tadpole resummations" includes! "propagations of closed string" in the direction perpendicular! to D-branes, assuming flat space-time. The existence of D-branes should change! the background geometry (and background fields). ex. "spontaneous compactifications" in Sugimoto model by Dudas-Mourad (000) It may affect the results of "tadpole resummations",! although it is not included also in the analysis! with string field theory. 37

38 We need to include the back reaction to understand! precisely the models without supersymmetry. The technique of "Tadpole resummations"!! "Tadpole resummation in string theory,"! N.K. Phys. Lett.! B660 (008) 45.! "One-loop masses of open-string scalar fields in string theory,"!! N.K., JHEP 0809 (008) 049.! could be one possible direction, and there should be more. This is a difficult problem,! but there are steady and serious efforts. "String perturbation theory around dynamically shifted vacuum,"! R.Pius, A.Rudra and A.Sen, JHEP 40 (04) 070. (On the shift of the vacuum by radiative corrections) 38

39 Dynamics of gauge symmetry breaking 39

40 A typical attitude of gauge symmetry breaking! in models of "string phenomenology". give particle contents and gauge symmetry! at a high energy.!. go to the description by quantum field theory! assuming decoupling of heavy states.! 3. investigate quantum correction to scalar fields! and vacuum expectation values of them. Some times, even a tachyon mode is identified as Higgs! It is mysterious what happens to D-branes. Remember:! "String Theory" is a tool just like Quantum Field Theory.! Try to use it to describe (understand) particle physics. 40

41 Parallel separations of D-branes result! gauge symmetry breaking without rank reduction. U(5) U(3) U() rank 5 rank 5 This can happen by radiative corrections in String Theory in models without supersymmetry.! Antoniadis-Benakli-Quiros (000) Some D-branes must "disappear" in the process like SU() L U() Y! U() em rank rank 4

42 Expect non-perturbative effects in String Theory?! It could be possible ("D-instanton effects"). See for example, Camara-Condeescu-Dudas-Lennek (00). There are perturbative processes with! geometrical understandings! in the system of "D-branes at singularities". 4

43 Consider a system of "brane SUSY breaking"! that we have already seen before. Four D3-branes and Three anti-d7-branes! at a SUSY C 3 /Z 3 orbifold singularity 4 x D3-brane the same! positions in! 8-9 plane 3 x D7-brane Z 3 operation matrices on each D-brane 3 = diag(,, ) U() U() U() ( e i /3 ) 7 3 = 3 U(3) 3Tr( 3 ) Tr( 7 3 )=0 43

44 Identifications of D3-branes work as! reductions of the number of D3-branes. In this system with one "fractional D3-brane"! and three conventional D3-branes identified by : Z 3 4 D3-branes A A U() U() U() U() U() rank 4 rank a fractional! D3-brane T3 frac = T 3 /3 The rank is reduced through! the spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking. 44

45 Summary of scalar fields in four-dimensional space-time from D3-D3! open string from D3-D7! open string { { D3 U() U() U() U(3) A () i : (, 0,, ) A () i : (, +, 0, ) A (3) i : (,, +, ) : (, 0, 0, 3) : (, 0, 0, 3) D7 () i =,, 3 4-5! plane (3) 6-7! plane () 8-9! plane We need to identify moduli fields which describe the places! of D3-branes (scalar components of A () i,a () i,a (3) i fields). 45

46 Carefully consider the tree-level potential Kitazawa-S.Kobayashi (03) Scalar fields from D3-D3 open string: "D3-D3 sector" There is 4D N= supersymmetry on D3-brane: V 33 = V F + V D V F = F () i + F () i + F (3) i F () i = g ijk A (3) j A () k,f () i = g ijk A () j A (3) k,f (3) i = g ijk A () j A () k. V D = (Da U() ) + D + D D a U() = g A () i T a A () i A () i (T a ) A () i, g : gauge coupling D = D = g A() i A (3) i, g A(3) i A () i. 46

47 The potential with D3-D3 fields and D3-D7 fields! can be obtained from string disc amplitudes. D3 x x D7 D3 x x D7 V mixed = g 4 A() + g 4 A() + g 4 A() A () + g A () 4 A() g 4 A() A () 3 + g 4 A() A () A () A () 3 No term including U() singlet A (3) i 47

48 The potential of D3-D7 sector only The general form under gauge symmetry and! the trace structure of string disc amplitudes: V 37 = g Tr + g Tr + 3 g Tr + 4 g Tr The values of coupling constants strongly depend on! the model (namely compactification). Here, we assume that all of them are positive and that! the vacuum expectation values of D3-D7 fields are zero. (Assuming nothing happens on D7-brane) 48

49 There are flat directions in the potential of D3-D3 scalars. A () i = a i 0,A () i = b i 0,A (3) i = c i a i = b i = c i v i i =,, 3 Gauge symmetry breaking at the place of non-zero VEV: T a Q Q (T 0 T 3 ) Q + Q +(T 0 + T 3 ) U() U() U() U() U() The rank of group! decreases. b i T a a i Q Q c i 49

50 The gauge boson mass spectrum! (consider i=3 only, for simplicity) Original gauge bosons U() : W 0,W,W,W 3 U() B B : U() : m =0 A = p W 0 + p W 3 A = p 6 W 0 p6 W 3 + p 3 B + p 3 B m =3g v Z = p B p B Z = p 3 W 0 p3 W 3 p6 B p6 B m = g v W ± = p W iw 50

51 A geometrical interpretation A separation of three D3-branes in a Z 3 invariant way. d = 0 gv This schematic picture! represents! D3-brane configuration! in 8-9 plane ( i =3case). The same for 4-5, 6-7 planes! for i =, case, respectively. U A U = A The bases of D3-branes! should be changed. (T 0 + T 3 )-Q -Q basis 5

52 This geometric interpretation is supported by! the D3-D3 and D3-D7 mixed potential. V mixed = g 4 A() + g 4 A() + g 4 A() A () + g A () 4 A() g 4 A() A () 3 + g 4 A() A () A () A () 3 VEV of A () = A () and A () = A () do not give! masses to D3-D7 scalar fields, because! D3-brane separations in 4-5 and 6-7 planes! do not give separations between D3 and D7 branes. VEV of A () = A () 3 3 gives mass to D3-D7 scalar fields,! because D3 and D7 branes are separated in 8-9 plane. 5

53 Introduce Fayet-Iliopoulos terms! which are induced by VEVs of twisted moduli fields. g D = p A () i A (3) i +, g D = p A (3) i A () i +, DU() a=0 = g A () i A () i + 3. twisted closed string! (closed up to ) Z 3 = R 3 I, = R + 3 I, 3 = R. = R + i I : VEV of a twisted moduli field! (normalized to have dimension by )! -> "resolved singularity" Douglas-Greene-Morrison (997) M s / p 0 53

54 The flat direction remains (consider i=3 only for simplicity) A () = a 0,A () = b 0,A (3) = c. b = a + R, c = a + R 3 I. The origin! is excluded. V origin = 5g 8 V flat = g 4 a = b = c =0 R + 3g 8 R I We assume! the stabilization of! twisted moduli. R =0, I =0 R =0, I =0 The singularity! is "resolved". 54

55 There should be one-loop mass corrections. V mass = m A () + m A () + m 3 A (3) m = m = m 3 m g 6 M s > 0 (an order estimate) by! D3-D7 string O() The flat direction is lifted up, and! there are discrete solutions of stable vacua, for example: a = R b = 0, g m, The solution with! only one SU()! doublet "Higgs"! has VEV. c = 3 R I g m 55

56 The relation between! gauge symmetry breaking scale and string scale Reasonably assuming that! the VEV of twisted moduli are less than string scale: v ' 4m g ' M s 4! a = v/ If v 50GeV (electroweak scale), the upper bound: M s 600 GeV M s > 7 TeV by CMS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 6 (06) 0780.! & 4.5 Anyway: We have a geometrical understanding of! gauge symmetry breaking in String Theory. 56

57 We need some dynamics to stabilize the D-brane moduli! so that the distance should be very small! in comparison with the string scale. A truly dynamical stabilization:! D3-branes revolving around the origin.!! S.Iso-N.K. (05) The supersymmetry breaking mass term for moduli! by D3-anti-D7-brane open string acts as an attractive force,! and centrifugal force by revolution acts as a repulsive force.!! The problem:! Lorentz symmetry violation in the world volume of D3-brane. Any other good idea? 57

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