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Proton Decay in a 6D SO(10) model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present a study of proton decay in a supersymmetric SO(10) SO(10) gauge theory in six dimensions compactified on an orbifold. The dimension 5 proton decay operators are absent, but the dimension 6 are enhanced due to the presence of KK towers. We resum the KK modes up to the cut-off of the theory and find the rate for the dominant mode pπ0e+p \to \pi^0 e^{+} . We explore also the flavour dependence, due to the different localization of states in the extra dimensions and find that it is possible to distinguish the model from the usual 4D SU(5)/SO(10) SU(5)/SO(10) models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0506255,
  title  = {Proton Decay in a 6D SO(10) model},
  author = {Laura Covi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0506255},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Contribution to 40th Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy, 5-12 Mar 2005., LaTeX,6 pages,1 figure

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