Unification and Flavor with Extra Dimensions

by Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University and CERN-PH-TH)

Wednesday 7 Nov 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

In the framework of Quantum Field Theory, the Standard Model gauge bosons, the Higgs bosons as well as the quarks and leptons can all be unified using extra dimensions and supersymmetry. After a brief review of the theoretical and experimental implications of the existence of extra dimensions, I will present a simple model in which such an unification is achieved, and its phenomenological implications. I will further discuss how the existence of the three chiral families of the quarks and leptons can also be understood in this framework.

Slides Nandi_cern_2007.pdf