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Optical Unification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss string scale unification facilitated by exotic matter with masses at intermediate scales, between the observable sector supersymmetry breaking scale and the string scale. We point out a mechanism by which string scale unification may occur while producing a (lower) virtual unification scale independent of the location of the intermediate scale and the value of the string coupling. The apparent unification obtained by extrapolating low energy gauge couplings is not accidental when this mechanism is invoked; virtual unification is robust.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205224,
  title  = {Optical Unification},
  author = {Joel Giedt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205224},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, references added