New Low-Energy Realization of the Superstring-Inspired E_6 Model

Abstract

The superstring-inspired E_6 model is reduced to the supersymmetric standard model extended by a specific U(1) factor. This choice allows for the existence of naturally light singlet neutrinos which also mix with the known three doublet neutrinos, thus making it possible to accommodate all present neutrino data. Other consequences of this model are also discussed: oblique corrections from Z-Z' mixing, phenomenology of the two-Higgs-doublet sector, and possible scenarios of gauge-coupling unification.

Comments: 9 pages, no figure, talk given at the 5th Hellenic School and Worshops on Elementary Particle Physics, Corfu, Greece (September 1995)