Supersymmetric unification and R symmetries

DOI10.1142/S0217732312300443MaRDI QIDQ4912650zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mu-Chun Chen, Maximilian Fallbacher, Michael Ratz

Publication date 4 April 2013

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6247

zbMATH Keywords

discrete symmetriesgrand unificationstring theorysupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We review the role of R symmetries in models of supersymmetric unification in four and more dimensions, and in string theory. We show that, if one demands anomaly freedom and fermion masses, only R symmetries can forbid the supersymmetric Higgs mass term mu. We then review the proof that R symmetries are not available in conventional grand unified theories (GUTs) and argue that this prevents natural solutions to the doublet-triplet splitting problem in four dimensions. On the other hand, higher-dimensional GUTs do not suffer from this problem. We briefly comment on an explicit string-derived model in which the mu and dimension five proton decay problems are solved simultaneously by an order four discrete R symmetry. We also comment on the higher-dimensional origin of this symmetry.

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