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SO(10) unification with horizontal symmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-07-23 v2

Abstract

We extend the nonsupersymmetric SO(10) grand unification theories by adding a horizontal symmetry, which connects the three generations of fermions. Without committing to any specific symmetry group, we investigate the 1-loop renormalization group evolutions of the gauge couplings with one and two intermediate breaking scales. We find that depending on the SO(10) breaking chains, gauge coupling unification is compatible with only a handful of choices of representations of the Higgs bosons under the horizontal symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2001.08762,
  title  = {SO(10) unification with horizontal symmetry},
  author = {Avik Banerjee and Gautam Bhattacharyya and Palash B. Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08762},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages, 6 tables. v2: Further clarifications added primarily in Discussions Section, References updated, to be published in PRD

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