TH Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology

Proton decay and CP violation in a 6D SO(10) GUT model

Name: Proton decay and CP violation in a 6D SO(10) GUT model
Start: 2006-07-28T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2006-07-28T15:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Wiesenfeldt, S. (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Friday 28 Jul 2006, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

We study a six-dimensional supersymmetric SO(10) orbifold GUT model. Three sequential quark-lepton families are localized at the three orbifold fixed points, where SO(10) is broken to its three GUT subgroups. The physical quarks and leptons are mixtures of these brane states and additional bulk zero modes with characteristic mass textures. This leads to a distinctive pattern of branching ratios in proton decay, in particular the suppression of the p → mu⁺ K⁰ mode. We also discuss CP violation in the quark and lepton sector and study possible relations between the observable phases in the two sectors.