Abstract
The significant heavy threshold effect is found in the minimal supersymmetric model with two adjoint scalars, one of which is interpreted as a massive string mode largely decoupled from the lower-energy particle spectra. This threshold related with the generic mass splitting of the basic adjoint moduli is shown to alter properly the running of gauge couplings, thus giving a natural solution to the string-scale grand unification. The further symmetry condition of the (top-bottom) Yukawa and gauge coupling superunification at a string scale results in the perfectly working predictions for the top and bottom quark masses in the absence of any large supersymmetric threshold corrections.
- Received 9 March 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.055011
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