Grand Unified Origin of Gauge Interactions and Families Replication in the Standard Model

The tremendous phenomenological success of the Standard Model (SM) suggests that its flavor structure and gauge interactions may not be arbitrary but should have a fundamental first-principle explanation. In this work, we explore how the basic distinctive properties of the SM dynamically emerge from...

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Main Authors: António P. Morais, Roman Pasechnik, Werner Porod
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Universe
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/7/12/461
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Summary:The tremendous phenomenological success of the Standard Model (SM) suggests that its flavor structure and gauge interactions may not be arbitrary but should have a fundamental first-principle explanation. In this work, we explore how the basic distinctive properties of the SM dynamically emerge from a unified New Physics framework tying together both flavor physics and Grand Unified Theory (GUT) concepts. This framework is suggested by a novel anomaly-free supersymmetric chiral <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi mathvariant="normal">E</mi><mn>6</mn></msub><mo>×</mo><mi>SU</mi><msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">F</mi></msub><mo>×</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">U</mi><msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">F</mi></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> GUT containing the SM. Among the most appealing emergent properties of this theory is the Higgs-matter unification with a highly-constrained massless chiral sector featuring two universal Yukawa couplings close to the GUT scale. At the electroweak scale, the minimal SM-like effective field theory limit of this GUT represents a specific flavored three-Higgs doublet model consistent with the observed large hierarchies in the quark mass spectra and mixing already at tree level.
ISSN:2218-1997