Published January 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Family unification, exotic states and light magnetic monopoles

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37325 (United States)
  • 2. Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 (United States)

Description

Models with fermions in bifundamental representations can lead naturally to family unification as opposed to family replication. Such models typically predict (exotic) color singlet states with fractional electric charge, and magnetic monopoles with multiple Dirac charge. The exotics may be at the TeV scale, and relatively light magnetic monopoles (∼>107 GeV) can be present in the galaxy with abundance near the Parker bound. We focus on three family SU(4) x SU(3) x SU(3) models

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
1
Journal Issue
2007
Journal Page Range
p. 088
ISSN
1126-6708