Published September 16, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

δT/T and neutrino masses in SU(5)

  • 1. Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 (United States)

Description

We implement inflation in a supersymmetric SU(5) model with U(1) R-symmetry such that the cosmic microwave anisotropy δT/T is proportional to (M/MPlanck)2, where M∼MGUT=2-3x1016GeV, the SU(5) breaking scale, and MPlanck=2.4x1019GeV. The presence of a global U(1)X symmetry, spontaneously broken also at scale MGUT, provides an upper bound MGUT2/MPlanck∼1014GeV on the masses of SU(5) singlet right-handed neutrinos, which explains the mass scale associated with atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The SU(5) monopoles and U(1)X cosmic strings are inflated away. Although the doublet-triplet splitting requires fine-tuning, the MSSM μ problem is resolved and dimension five proton decay is strongly suppressed

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.030;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0404168v3;
PII
S0370-2693(04)01067-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
597
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 321-327
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.