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Third Family Quark-Lepton Unification at the TeV Scale

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We construct a model of quark-lepton unification at the TeV scale based on an SU(4)SU(4) gauge symmetry, while still having acceptable neutrino masses and enough suppression in flavor changing neutral currents. An approximate U(2)U(2) flavor symmetry is an artifact of family-dependent gauge charges leading to a natural realization of the CKM mixing matrix. The model predicts sizeable violation of PMNS unitarity as well as a gauge vector leptoquark U1μ=(3,1,2/3)U_1^\mu = ({\bf 3}, {\bf 1}, 2/3) which can be produced at the LHC -- both effects within the reach of future measurements. In addition, recently reported experimental anomalies in semi-leptonic BB-meson decays, both in charged bcτνb \to c \tau \nu and neutral bsμμb \to s \mu \mu currents, can be accommodated.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.04274,
  title  = {Third Family Quark-Lepton Unification at the TeV Scale},
  author = {Admir Greljo and Ben A. Stefanek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04274},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 tables. Version accepted for publication in PLB

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