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The observability of an additional discrete symmetry in the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v5

Abstract

Standard Model may be defined with the additional discrete symmetry, i.e. with the gauge group SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)/ZSU(3)\times SU(2) \times U(1)/{\cal Z} (Z=Z6{\cal Z} = Z_6, Z3Z_3 or Z2Z_2) instead of the usual SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)SU(3)\times SU(2) \times U(1). It has the same perturbation expansion as the conventional one. However, it may describe nature in a different way at the energies compared to the triviality bound (of about 1 Tev). In this paper we present a possibility to observe this difference assuming that the gauge group of the Standard Model is embedded into the gauge group of an {\it a priory} unknown model, which describes physics at a Tev scale. This difference is related to the monopole content of the theory. We illustrate our results by consideration of the Petite Unification of quarks and leptons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0609029,
  title  = {The observability of an additional discrete symmetry in the Standard Model},
  author = {M. A. Zubkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0609029},
  year   = {2008}
}

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