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LHC-scale left-right symmetry and unification
Michal MalinskyMartin S. HirschCarolina ArbeláezJorge C. Romãosubject
QuarkPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsLarge Hadron ColliderScale (ratio)Proton decayPhysics beyond the Standard ModelHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesFísicaHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyStandard Model (mathematical formulation)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Grand Unified TheoryModel buildingdescription
We construct a comprehensive list of nonsupersymmetric standard model extensions with a low-scale left-right (LR)-symmetric intermediate stage that may be obtained as simple low-energy effective theories within a class of renormalizable SO(10) grand unified theories. Unlike the traditional minimal LR models many of our example settings support a perfect gauge coupling unification even if the LR scale is in the LHC domain at a price of only (a few copies of) one or two types of extra fields pulled down to the TeV-scale ballpark. We discuss the main aspects of a potentially realistic model building conforming the basic constraints from the quark and lepton sector flavor structure, proton decay limits, etc. We pay special attention to the theoretical uncertainties related to the limited information about the underlying unified framework in the bottom-up approach, in particular, to their role in the possible extraction of the LR-breaking scale. We observe a general tendency for the models without new colored states in the TeV domain to be on the verge of incompatibility with the proton stability constraints.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-13 | Physical Review D |