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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)032
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Strings and branes phenomenology
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- DOE [DE- FG02-90ER-40560]
- NSF [PHY-0855039]
- STFC
- STFC [ST/J002798/1, ST/G000395/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J002798/1, ST/G000395/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We undertake a phenomenological study of SU(5) F-theory GUT models with an additional U(1)(PQ) symmetry. In such models, breaking SU(5) with hypercharge flux leads to the presence of non-GUT multiplets in the spectrum. We study the effect these have on the unification of gauge couplings, including two-loop running as well as low- and high-scale threshold corrections. We use the requirement of unification to constrain the size of thresholds from KK modes of SU(5) gauge and matter fields. Assuming the non-GUT multiplets play the role of messengers of gauge mediation leads to controlled non-universalities in the sparticle spectrum while maintaining grand unification, and we study the LHC phenomenology of this scenario. We find that the MSSM spectrum may become compressed or stretched out by up to a factor of three depending on the distribution of hypercharge flux. We present a set of benchmark points whose production cross-sections and decays we investigate, and argue that precision kinematic edge measurements will allow the LHC to distinguish between our model and mGMSB.
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