General Formulation for Proton Decay Rate in Minimal Supersymmetric SO(10) GUT

Abstract

We make an explicit formulation for the proton decay rate in the minimal renormalizable supersymmetric (SUSY) SO(10) model. In this model, the Higgs fields consist of $10$ and $\overline{126}$ SO(10) representations in the Yukawa interactions with matter and of $10$, $\overline{126}$, $126$, and $210$ representations in the Higgs potential. We present all the mass matrices for the Higgs fields contained in this minimal SUSY SO(10) model. Finally, we discuss the threshold effects of these Higgs fields on the gauge coupling unification.

Comments: 32 pages, typos are corrected, a few references and comments to the papers arXiv:hep-ph/0204097 and arXiv:hep-ph/0402122 are added