Published May 3, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Gravitational smearing of minimal supersymmetric unification predictions

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Theoretical Physics Group, 50A/3115, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

The prediction for αs in the minimal supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory is generically subject to uncertainties arising from a gravitationally induced dimension-five operator. Unless the coefficient of this operator is small, the correlation between αs and the mass scale which governs proton decay to Kν is destroyed. Furthermore, a reduction of the experimental uncertainty in αs would not provide a significant test of the theory

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
18
Journal Page Range
p. 2673-2676.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO