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Title: Intermediate left-right gauge symmetry, unification of couplings, and fermion masses in supersymmetric SO(10)xS{sub 4}

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. National Institute for Science Education and Research, Institute of Physics Campus, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 751005 (India)

If left-right gauge theory, SU(2){sub L}xSU(2){sub R}xU(1){sub B-L}xSU(3){sub C}(g{sub L}=g{sub R})({identical_to}G{sub 2213}), occurs as an intermediate symmetry in a grand unified theory then, apart from other advantages, it is possible to obtain the seesaw scale necessary to understand small neutrino masses with Majorana coupling of order unity. Barring threshold or nonrenormalizable gravitational effects at the GUT scale, or the assumed presence of additional light scalar particles of unprescribed origin, all other attempts to achieve manifest one-loop gauge coupling unification in supersymmetry SO(10) with such intermediate symmetry have not been successful so far. Attributing this failure to lack of flavor symmetry in the grand unified theory, we show how the spontaneous symmetry breaking of SO(10)xS{sub 4} leads to such left-right intermediate breaking scale extending over the range M{sub R}{approx_equal}5x10{sup 9} GeV to 10{sup 15} GeV. All the charged fermion masses are fitted at the intermediate seesaw scale, M{sub N}{approx_equal}M{sub R}{approx_equal}4x10{sup 13} GeV which is obtained with Majorana coupling f{sub 0}{approx_equal}1. Using type-I seesaw and a constrained parametrization in which CP-violation originates only from the quark sector, in addition to other predictions made in the neutrino sector, the reactor mixing angle is found to be {theta}{sub 13}{approx_equal}3 deg. - 5 deg. which is in the range accessible to ongoing experiments. The leptonic Dirac phase turns out to be {delta}{approx_equal}2.9-3.1 radians with the predicted values of Jarlskog invariant J{sub CP}{approx_equal}2.95x10{sup -5}-10{sup -3}.

OSTI ID:
21250704
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.053004; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English