arXiv:hep-ph/0310175·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Flipping SU(5) Towards Five Dimensional Unification
I. Dorsner (ICTP, Italy & Bartol Research Institute, USA)🇮🇹
Abstract
It is shown that embedding of flipped SU(5) in a five-dimensional SO(10) enables exact unification of the gauge coupling constants. The demand for the unification uniquely determines both the compactification scale and the cutoff scale. These are found to be 5.5 \times 10^{14} GeV and 1.0 \times 10^{17} GeV respectively. The theory explains the absence of d=5 proton-decay operators through the implementation of the missing partner mechanism. On the other hand, the presence of d=6 proton-decay operators points towards the bulk localization of the first and the second family of matter fields.
Comments: 21 pages, references added, 3 Postscript figures, ReVTeX4