Supersymmetric standard model spectra from RCFT orientifolds

Abstract We present supersymmetric, tadpole-free d = 4 , N = 1 orientifold vacua with a three family chiral fermion spectrum that is identical to that of the standard model. Starting with all simple current orientifolds of all Gepner models we perform a systematic search for such spectra. We consider several variations of the standard four-stack intersecting brane realization of the standard model, with all quarks and leptons realized as bifundamentals and perturbatively exact baryon and lepton number symmetries, and with a U ( 1 ) Y vector boson that does not acquire a mass from Green–Schwarz terms. The number of supersymmetric Higgs pairs H 1 + H 2 is left free. In order to cancel all tadpoles, we allow a “hidden” gauge group, which must be chirally decoupled from the standard model. We also allow for non-chiral mirror-pairs of quarks and leptons, non-chiral exotics and (possibly chiral) hidden, standard model singlet matter, as well as a massless B–L vector boson. All of these less desirable features are absent in some cases, although not simultaneously. In particular, we found cases with massless Chan–Paton gauge bosons generating nothing more than SU ( 3 ) × SU ( 2 ) × U ( 1 ) . We obtain almost 180 000 rationally distinct solutions (not counting hidden sector degrees of freedom), and present distributions of various quantities. We analyse the tree level gauge couplings, and find a large range of values, remarkably centered around the unification point.