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Missing Partner Mechanism in SO(10) Grand Unification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We present a new possibility for achieving doublet-triplet splitting naturally in supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified theories. It is based on a missing partner mechanism which is realized with the 126 + 126-bar Higgs superfields. These Higgs fields, which are also needed for generating Majorana right-handed neutrino masses, contain a pair of color triplets in excess of weak doublets. This feature enables us to remove the color triplets from the low energy spectrum without fine-tuning. We give all the needed ingredients for a successful implementation of the missing partner mechanism in SO(10) and present explicit models wherein the Higgs doublet mass is protected against possible non-renormalizable corrections to all orders. We also show how realistic fermion masses can be generated in this context.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0612315,
  title  = {Missing Partner Mechanism in SO(10) Grand Unification},
  author = {K. S. Babu and I. Gogoladze and Z. Tavartkiladze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0612315},
  year   = {2008}
}

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LaTex, 3 ps figures, references added, version to be published in Phys. Lett. B

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