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Fermion Masses and Unification

Fermion Masses and Unification. Steve King University of Southampton. Lecture 2. Grand Unified Theories SU(5) Pati-Salam SO(10) Proton decay with triplets Appendix on group theory. Grand Unified Theories (GUTs).

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Fermion Masses and Unification

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  1. Fermion Masses and Unification Steve King University of Southampton

  2. Lecture 2 Grand Unified Theories SU(5) Pati-Salam SO(10) Proton decay with triplets Appendix on group theory

  3. Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) Basic idea is to embed the SM gauge group into a simple gauge group G with a single coupling constant, broken at a high energy scale • Motivations • Continuation of process of unification of physics starting with Maxwell • Remarkable fit of SM multiplets into Pati-Salam, SU(5), SO(10), E6… • Unification of gauge couplings at high energy scale MGUT • Charge quantization: equality of electron and proton charges • High energy fermion mass relations e.g. mb=m

  4. Candidate GUTs

  5. Georgi and Glashow SU(5) GUT With the hypercharge embedding Each family fits nicely into the SU(5) multiplets N.B in minimal SU(5) neutrino masses are zero. Right-handed neutrinos may be added to give neutrino masses but they are not predicted.

  6. Higgs Sector of SU(5) Candidate Higgs reps of SU(5) are contained in matter bilinears constructed from 5* and 10 Minimal suitable Higgs reps for fermion masses consist of 5H + 5*H

  7. Fermion Masses in SU(5) The Yukawa superpotential for one family with Higgs H=5, H*=5* good almost good c.f. Georgi-Jarlskog relations at MGUT:

  8. Breaking SU(5) The smallest Higgs rep which contains a singlet under the SM subgroup is the 24 Higgs rep and is a candidate to break SU(5) The Higgs superpotential involving the minimal Higgs sector of SU(5) consisting of the 24H plus H=5H plus H*=5H* With some tuning (see later) one can achieve light Higgs doublets which can develop weak scale vevs v5¿ v24

  9. Proton Decay in Non-SUSY SU(5) Gauge bosons in adjoint of SU(5) contain SM gauge bosons G,W,B plus new gauge bosons X,Y Decay modes

  10. Proton Decay in SUSY SU(5) There are also in addition dimension 5 proton decay operators arising from colour triplet exchange (see later) However the main drawback of SU(5) is that it does not predict right-handed neutrinos….

  11. -- Predicts RH neutrinos with lepton number as the “fourth colour” -- Allows the possibility of restoring parity if LR symmetry is imposed -- (Quark-lepton) unification of 16 family into two LR symmetric reps -- B-L as a gauge symmetry -- Quantization of electric charge  Qe= -Qp -- Pati-Salam can be unified into SO(10) Pati-Salam Partial Unification

  12. Symmetry Breaking of Pati-Salam In order to achieve the desired symmetry breaking We introduce Higgs: Electroweak symmetry breaking is then achieved via the Higgs bidoublet:

  13. Fermion Masses in Pati-Salam The Yukawa superpotential for one family at the GUT scale Could work for the third family, but certainly not for all three families at the GUT scale is bad at the GUT scale is almost good

  14. Georgi-Jarlskog Textures Consider the following texture Gives good SUSY relations at MGUT: Such a texture can be achieved from the superpotential where Gives GJ factor of -3 for the lepton

  15. SO(10) GUT Georgi; Fritzsch and Minkowski The 16 of SO(10) contains a single quark and lepton family and also predicts a single right-handed neutrino per family. The SU(5) reps are unified into SO(10): The two Higgs doublets are contained in a 10 of SO(10) Fermion masses arise from the coupling c.f. Pati-Salam

  16. Neutrino masses in SO(10) Dirac mass Heavy Majorana mass SO(10) contains all the ingredients for the see-saw mechanism and tends to predict a hierarchical pattern of neutrino masses

  17. Troublesome Colour Triplet Higgs Low energy MSSM Higgs doublets must be embedded into representations of the GUT group This Leads to new (colour triplet) particles D e.g. All give new colour triplet particles: Spoil Unification of MSSM gauge couplings 1 Problems: 2 Cause rapid proton decay

  18. Proton Decay with Triplet Higgs Say representation of And quarks and leptons representation of To produce SM Yukawa terms one generally uses terms Gives following SM interactions: But also gives ‘dangerous’ terms involving with SM particles: Proton decay

  19. D-exchange generates superfield operators In terms of scalar and fermion components some examples of dangerous operators are shown below

  20. Proton Decay with Dim 5 Operators Thus p» MGUT2 Msoft2 instead of MGUT4 Minimal SU(5) turns out to be ruled out by proton decay -- but it gives unacceptable fermion masses anyway

  21. Appendix 1 Group Theory of SU(5)

  22. Nevzorov

  23. Gauge Sector of SU(5)

  24. Summary of Matter and Gauge Sector of SU(5)

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