Perturbative SO(10) GUT and the Minimal Higgs Sector
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The breaking of SO(10) to SU(3)_C x U(1)_EM can be accomplished by just four Higgs fields: the symmetric rank-two tensor, S(54); a pair of spinors, C(16) and Cbar(16bar); and a vector, T(10). This setup is also able to generate realistic fermion masses. The heavy color triplets in the vector and spinor fields mediate proton decay via dimension-five operators. The experimental bounds on proton decay constrain the structure and size of the Yukawa operators.
v2: discussion about gauge coupling unification extended; figure added; to appear in Phys. Lett. B
v2: discussion about gauge coupling unification extended; figure added; to appear in Phys. Lett. B