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A minimal non-supersymmetric SO(10) model with Peccei--Quinn symmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-10-02 v3

Abstract

We present a minimal non-supersymmetric SO(10) GUT breaking directly to the Standard Model gauge group. Precise gauge coupling unification is achieved due to the presence of two color-octet scalars, one of which is accessible to LHC searches. Proton lifetime is predicted to be below 4.5×10344.5\times 10^{34} years, which is within the projected five-year sensitivity of the proposed Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. We find that the Standard Model observables are reproduced to a reasonable accuracy in a numerical fit, which also predicts the unknown neutrino parameters. Finally, the two scalar representations stabilize the electroweak vacuum and the dark matter is comprised of axions.

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@article{arxiv.1812.10548,
  title  = {A minimal non-supersymmetric SO(10) model with Peccei--Quinn symmetry},
  author = {Sofiane M. Boucenna and Tommy Ohlsson and Marcus Pernow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10548},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures. Final version published in Phys. Lett. B. Corrected units in Eq. (13)