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Electroweak Unification into a Five-Dimensional SU(3) at a TeV

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We apply a recently proposed mechanism for predicting the weak mixing angle to theories with TeV-size dimensions. "Reconstruction" of the associated moose (or quiver) leads to theories which unify the electroweak forces into a five dimensional SU(3) symmetry. Quarks live at an orbifold fixed point where SU(3) breaks to the electroweak group. A variety of theories -- all sharing the same successful prediction of the weak mixing angle -- emerges; they differ primarily by the spatial location of the leptons and the absence or presence of supersymmetry. A particularly interesting theory puts leptons in a Konopinski-Mahmoud triplet and suppresses proton decay by placing quarks and leptons on opposite fixed points.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202136,
  title  = {Electroweak Unification into a Five-Dimensional SU(3) at a TeV},
  author = {Savas Dimopoulos and David E. Kaplan and Neal Weiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202136},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX