Friday, February 15, 2013

1302.3401 (Stefano Bertolini et al.)

Light color octet scalars in the minimal SO(10) grand unification    [PDF]

Stefano Bertolini, Luca Di Luzio, Michal Malinsky
We analyze the relation between the present (and foreseen) bounds on matter stability and the presence of TeV-scale color octet scalar states in non-supersymmetric SO(10) grand unification with one adjoint Higgs representation triggering the symmetry breaking. This scenario, discarded since long due to tree-level tachyonic instabilities appearing in all phenomenologically viable breaking patterns, has been recently revived at the quantum level. Including the relevant two-loop corrections we find a tight correlation between the octet mass and the unification scale which either requires a light color octet scalar within the reach of the LHC or, alternatively, a proton lifetime accessible to the forthcoming megaton-scale facilities.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3401

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