Gauge Coupling Unification: Strings versus SUSY-GUTs

Details Gauge Coupling Unification: Strings versus SUSY-GUTs Gauge Coupling Unification: Strings versus SUSY-GUTs

1993-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9308365v1

Phys.Lett. B318 (1993) 73-76

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

7 pages (1 figure available upon request, either as PS file or hard copy) FTUAM-35-93 harvmac

Scientific paper

10.1016/0370-2693(93)91786-M

Standard (level one) heterotic string models with standard model gauge group predict the unification of $SU(3)$ and $SU(2)$ gauge couplings whereas the $U(1)$ factor is unified modulo an unknown normalization factor $k_1$. On the other hand the unification mass is known. I argue that this situation is quite analogous (though opposite) to that in SUSY-GUTs in which the $U(1)$ normalization is known ($k_1=5/3$) but the unification mass $M_X$ is unknown. I emphasize that $k_1$ should be taken as a free parameter in the string approach (quite in the same way as $M_X$ is taken as a free parameter in SUSY-GUTs). If this is done, the success of the string approach concerning gauge coupling unification is comparable to that in SUSY-GUTs

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