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Towards unification of GUT families

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-10-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

I discuss the mere 5 % of atoms in the cosmic energy pie. It is basically the chiral matter problem. Then, I review the chiral matter problem from a grand unification (GUT) point of view, and point out that anti-SU(N), easily implementable in string compactification, is a possibility. Here `anti-' means that the GUT group breaking is through the anti-symmetric tensor field(s), e.g. <\Phi^{[AB]}>= <\Phi_{[AB]}>. We argued for an anti-SU(7) [= SU(7) x U(1)] families-unification model from a Z(12-I) orbifold compactification. The Z(12-I) orbifold is briefly discussed and the multiplicity 2 in the T3 twisted sector is the key obtaining three chiral families. Yukawa coupling structure is shown to be promising. A numerical study shows that the anti-SU(7) model satisfies the CKM fit. It is shown that the doublet-triplet splitting is obtained naturally, where the dominant process for proton decay is by the exchange of GUT scale gauge bosons such that proton to pi-zero plus positron is the dominant channel.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01824,
  title  = {Towards unification of GUT families},
  author = {Jihn E. Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01824},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, with 8 figures, talk at Planck 2015, Ioannina, Greece