Unifying gauge couplings at the string scale
| dc.creator | Emmanuel-Costa, David | |
| dc.creator | Felipe, Ricardo Gonzalez | |
| dc.date | 2006-06-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:24:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:24:56Z | |
| dc.description | Using the current precision electroweak data, we look for the minimal particle content which is necessary to add to the standard model in order to have a complete unification of gauge couplings and gravity at the weakly coupled heterotic string scale. We find that the addition of a vector-like fermion at an intermediate scale and a non-standard hypercharge normalization are in general sufficient to achieve this goal at two-loop level. Requiring the extra matter scale to be below the TeV scale, it is found that the addition of three vector-like fermion doublets with a mass around 700 GeV yields a perfect string-scale unification, provided that the affine levels are $(k_Y, k_2 ,k_3)=(13/3, 1, 2) $, as in the $SU(5) \times SU(5)$ string-GUT. Furthermore, if supersymmetry is broken at the unification scale, the Higgs mass is predicted in the range 125 GeV - 170 GeV, depending on the precise values of the top quark mass and $\tan β$ parameter. | |
| dc.description | 11 pages, 4 eps figures, using jpconf style, talk given at CORFU2005, RTN meeting ``The Quest for Unification: Theory Confronts Experiment'', 11 - 18 September 2005, Corfu, Greece | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0606012 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0606012 | |
| dc.identifier | J.Phys.Conf.Ser.53:684-694,2006 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/1742-6596/53/1/043 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/176373 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Unifying gauge couplings at the string scale | |
| dc.type | text |