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Perturbative SO(10) GUT and the Minimal Higgs Sector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The breaking of SO(10) to SU(3)_C x U(1)_EM can be accomplished by just four Higgs fields: the symmetric rank-two tensor, S(54); a pair of spinors, C(16) and Cbar(16bar); and a vector, T(10). This setup is also able to generate realistic fermion masses. The heavy color triplets in the vector and spinor fields mediate proton decay via dimension-five operators. The experimental bounds on proton decay constrain the structure and size of the Yukawa operators.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3300,
  title  = {Perturbative SO(10) GUT and the Minimal Higgs Sector},
  author = {Soren Wiesenfeldt and Scott Willenbrock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3300},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

v2: discussion about gauge coupling unification extended; figure added; to appear in Phys. Lett. B

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