Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-06-08
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Discussion of dimensional deconstruction added; references added; discussion of running expanded
Scientific paper
The logarithmic running of the gauge couplings alpha_1, alpha_2 and alpha_3, indicates that they may unify at some scale M_GUT ~ 10^16. This is often taken to imply that the standard model gauge group is embedded into some larger simple group in which quarks and leptons are placed in the same multiplet. These models have generic features, such as proton decay, and generic problems, namely the splitting of the Higgs doublet and triplet. Inspired by the recent discusion of dimensional deconstruction, we propose an interesting alternative: we postulate a strongly coupled SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1), which is not the remnant of a GUT, and is Higgsed with a weakly coupled SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1), which is the remnant of a GUT, or with a GUT group directly, into the diagonal subgroup. In this ``collapsed GUT'' mechanism, unification of coupling constants in the low energy theory is expected, but proton decay and the doublet/triplet splitting problem are entirely absent.
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