# Portorož 2017: New physics at the junction of flavor and collider phenomenology

Apr 18 – 21, 2017
Europe/Zurich timezone

## Flavor structure in SO(10) SUSY GUT from effective operators

Apr 21, 2017, 9:46 AM
23m
Plenary talk

### Speaker

Dr Vasja Susič (University of Basel)

### Description

We investigate the Yukawa sector of $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theories by
using the real representations $45$ and $210$ of $SO(10)$ to construct a class of effective non-renormalizable $SO(10)$ operators of the form $16\times 16\times 10\times 45^n \times 210^m$. The representations $45$ and $210$ acquire 2 and 3 independent VEV components, respectively. Assuming the overall VEVs of the $45$ and $210$ take well-defined directions with respect to the Pati-Salam or $SU(5)\times U(1)$ subgroups, one can obtain fermion mass ratio predictions at the GUT scale other than those from flavor models in $SU(5)$ GUTs.
Furthermore, we also investigate cases where the breaking sector of the model allows VEVs to align in arbitrary directions. In particular, we study in detail a scenario where we assume single operator dominance for the 22 and 33 Yukawa entries (operators with powers of $45$ only). Requiring then for masses of the 3rd and 2nd family, which are run via RGE to low energies, to be consistent with their experimentally measured values, the model yields predictions for the size of threshold corrections at the SUSY scale, and thus constrains the MSSM spectrum.

### Primary authors

Dr Vasja Susič (University of Basel) Prof. Stefan Antusch (University of Basel) Mr Christian Hohl (University of Basel)