Published October 1, 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Can all elementary particle forces be unified at 100 --1000 TeV

  • 1. Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151, Korea

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A modest proposal to deal with the gauge hierarchy problem is suggested by removing the necessary conditions for a huge ratio of vacuum expectation values. Instead of the grand unification at 1015 GeV, we unify the electroweak and strong interactions at a low energy 100 --1000 TeV. The observed values of sin2theta/sub W/ and α/sub s/ are used as inputs in the determination of the group in the SU(N) series. The currently favored values of sin2theta/sub W/ and α/sub s/ put a limit on N> or =9. In this kind of grand unification, proton stability is a necessity for consistency

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
22
Journal Issue
7
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1753-1759
ISSN
0556-2821