The observability of an additional discrete symmetry in the Standard Model
Description
Standard Model may be defined with the additional discrete symmetry, i.e. with the gauge group SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)/Z (Z=Z6, Z3 or Z2) instead of the usual SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1). It has the same perturbation expansion as the conventional one. However, it may describe nature in a different way at the energies compared to the triviality bound (of about 1 TeV). In this Letter we present a possibility to observe this difference assuming that the gauge group of the Standard Model is embedded into the gauge group of an a priori unknown model, which describes physics at a TeV scale. In particular, due to the additional Z3 or Z6 symmetry, monopoles with masses of the order of 10 TeV should appear, which may become the lightest topologically stable monopoles. We illustrate our results by consideration of the petite unification of quarks and leptons
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.04.005;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0609029v5;
- PII
- S0370-2693(07)00430-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 649
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 91-94
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39027501
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- LEPTONS; MONOPOLES; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUARKS; STANDARD MODEL; SU-2 GROUPS; SU-3 GROUPS; SYMMETRY; TEV RANGE 01-10; U-1 GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TEV RANGE; U GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.