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Exploring the Universe of Neutrinos: Proton Decay and Unification Theories

Delve into the fascinating world of neutrinos with insights on proton decay, gauge coupling unification, and matter unification theories such as SO(10) and SUSY GUTs. Discover the complexities of non-SUSY SO(10) models and proton lifetime predictions in various realistic scenarios. Unravel the mysteries of quark and lepton masses fitting, Type II seesaw mechanisms, and the Zee model of neutrino mass. Gain a deep understanding of the origin of small Majorana neutrino mass and radiative fermion mass generation in this comprehensive exploration of neutrino detectors and related physics theories.

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Exploring the Universe of Neutrinos: Proton Decay and Unification Theories

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  1. BSM Physics with Neutrino Detectors K.S. Babu Oklahoma State University SLAC Summer Institute “The Universe of Neutrinos” August 21, 2015

  2. Outline

  3. Why should we expect proton decay? Weyl (1929), Stueckelberg (1939), Wigner (1949) ‘t Hooft (1977) Sakharov (1967)

  4. Why unification of forces and matter?

  5. Gauge coupling unification without supersymmetry From Altarelli, Meloni (2013)

  6. More Hints in favor of Unification

  7. Unification of Matter Fields SO(10) Standard Model

  8. Nucleon decay in SUSY GUTs Hisano, Murayama, Yanagida (1993) Nath, Perez, Phys. Rept. (2007)

  9. Sakai, Yanagida (1982) Weinberg (1982) Murayama, Pierce (2002)

  10. Proton decay problem in SUSY SU(5)

  11. Proton Lifetime in Realistic SUSY SU(5) Babu, Bajc, Tavartkiladze (2012)

  12. Optimized Proton Lifetime in Realistic SUSY SU(5)

  13. Unification and Proton Decay in non-SUSY SO(10) Pati-Salam symmetry Rizzo, Senjanovic (1980) Mohapatra, Parida (1993) Deshpande, Keith, Pal (1995) Lee, Mohapatra, Parida, Rani (1995) Bertolini, Luzio, Malinsky (2012) Altarelli, Meloni (2013) Babu, Khan (2013)

  14. Gauge coupling evolution in non-SUSY SO(10) S. Khan, KSB (2015)

  15. Nucleon decay in non-SUSY SO(10)

  16. Proton lifetime versus intermediate scale

  17. Fermon Masses in Minimal SO(10) Model Model has only 11 real parameters plus 7 phases Bertolini, Frigerio, Malinsky (2004) Babu, Macesanu (2005) Bertolini, Malinsky, Schwetz (2006) Dutta, Mimura, Mohapatra (2007) Bajc, Dorsner, Nemevsek (2009) Babu, Mohapatra (1993) Fukuyama, Okada (2002) Bajc, Melfo, Senjanovic, Vissani (2004) Fukuyama, Ilakovac, Kikuchi, Meljanac, Okada (2004) Aulakh et al (2004)

  18. Specific Example for Quark & Lepton masses Fit Input at GUT scale Output: Type II Seesaw Babu, Macesanu (2005)

  19. Theta(13) in Minimal SO(10)

  20. SUSY SO(10) Models

  21. SUSY SO(10) with natural doublet-triplet splitting Babu, Pati, Tavartkiladze (2010) Dimopoulos, Wilczek (1981) Babu, Barr (1993) Barr, Raby (2000) (Dimopoulos-Wilczek mechanism)

  22. Correlation between d = 5 and d= 6 proton decay

  23. Proton Lifetime Predictions

  24. Gauge coupling evolution in explicit SO(10) model

  25. Proton lifetime expectations

  26. Origin of small Majorana neutrino mass

  27. Radiative fermion mass generation

  28. Zee Model of Neutrino Mass A. Zee (1980)

  29. Zee Model of Neutrino Mass (cont.)

  30. L. Wolfenstein (1980) Smirnov, Tanimoto (1997) Jarlskog, Matsuda, Skaldhauge, Tanimoto (1999) Frampton, Glashow (1999)

  31. Koide (2001) X.G. He (2004)

  32. New Predictive Realization Babu, Julio (2013)

  33. Gonzalez-Garcia et al (2012) Fogli et al (2012)

  34. Zee, (1985) • Babu (1988)

  35. K.S. Babu, J. Julio (2013) D. Schmitz, T.Schwetz, H. Zhang (2014) J. Herrero-Garcia, M. Nebot, N. Rius, A. Santamaria (2014) K.S. Babu, C. Macesanu (2005) D. Sierra, M. Hirsch (2006) M. Nebot, J. Oliver, D. Paolo, A. Santamaria (2008)

  36. LFV in Radiative Neutrino Mass Model K.S. Babu, J. Julio (2013)

  37. LFV in Radiative Neutrino Mass Model (cont.)

  38. Neutrino NSI L. Wolfenstein (1978)

  39. Barranco, Miranda, Moura, Valle (2009)

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