17–19 Dec 2007
Ritsumeikan University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Towards a Realistic Grand Gauge-Higgs Unification

18 Dec 2007, 16:30
20m
Epoch Ritsumei 21 (Ritsumeikan University)

Epoch Ritsumei 21

Ritsumeikan University

Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

Speaker

Dr Nobuhito Maru (Kobe University)

Description

We investigate a 5D SU(6) grand gauge-Higgs unification model compactified on an orbifold S^1/Z_2. Ordinary quarks and leptons, together with right-handed neutrinos, are just accommodated into a minimal set of representations of the gauge group, without introducing any exotic states. The proton decay turns out to be forbidden at least at the tree level. We also find a correct electroweak symmetry breaking SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y \to U(1)_{em} is easily realized by introducing suitable number of adjoint fermions.

Primary author

Dr Nobuhito Maru (Kobe University)

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