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Question for SU(5) x SU(5) string unification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-14 v3

Abstract

Here we ask if it is possible to have string unification in SU(5)×SU(5)\mathsf{SU(5)\times SU(5)} gauge group. We specifically investigate the weakly coupled heterotic string unification for the four couplings in this framework. We show that only a limited versions of SU(5)×SU(5)\mathsf{SU(5)\times SU(5)} with adjoint representation components at intermediated scales, between MZM_Z and Λ\Lambda (unification), are allowed. This is essentially due to the limitation in the parameter space to the gauge coupling constant α11\alpha_1^{-1} related to hypercharge. Indeed, only the vanishing hypercharge decompositions of SU(5)L\mathsf{SU(5)_L} subgroup can help to this unification, namely, the fermion and boson triplets, Σ3(1,3)0\Sigma_3\sim(1,3)_0, and the fermion and boson octets, Σ8(8,1)0\Sigma_8\sim(8,1)_0. Thus, these intermediate particles are compatible with the so-called Adjoint SU(5)\mathsf{SU(5)}. The triplets must live in TeV region and could be accessible at colliders while the octets must alive in very high energy scales. We also show that the non-SUSY unification scenario requires the introduction of an additional SU(2)L\mathsf{SU(2)_L} scalar color triplet, η(3,3)1/3\eta \sim (3,3)_{-{1}/{3}}, at relatively low energies (10511\sim 10^{5-11}GeV), and it may induce the proton decay.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2919,
  title  = {Question for SU(5) x SU(5) string unification},
  author = {Edison T. Franco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2919},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

13 pages, 9 figures. References updated and typos corrected

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