Grand unification in RS1 (Q1810424)

The authors of this interesting paper study unification in the Randall-Sundrum scenario for solving the hierarchy problem, with gauge fields and fermions in the bulk. They calculate the one-loop corrected low-energy effective gauge couplings in a unified theory, broken at the scale \(M_{\text{GUT}}\) in the bulk. It is shown that, although this scenario has an extra dimension, there is a robust logarithmic dependence on \(M_{\text{GUT}}\), strongly suggestive of high-scale unification, very much as in the (4D) standard model. It turns out that the bulk threshold effects are naturally small, but volume-enhanced so that one can accommodate the measure gauge couplings. It is shown in detail how excessive proton decay is forbidden by an extra U(1) bulk gauge symmetry. This mechanism requires us to further break the unified group using boundary conditions. A (4D) dual interpretation, in the sense of the AdS/CFT correspondence, is provided for all results given here. The obtained results show that an attractive unification mechanism can combine with a non-supersymmetric solution to the hierarchy problem.