Flipped Quartification: Product Group Unification with Leptoquarks

The quartification model is an SU(3)4 extension with a bi-fundamental fermion sector of the well-known SU(3)3 bi-fundamentalfication model. An alternative "flipped" version of the quartification model is obtained by rearrangement of the particle assignments. The flipped model has two stand...

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Published inEntropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 26; no. 7; p. 533
Main Authors Dent, James B, Kephart, Thomas W, Päs, Heinrich, Weiler, Thomas J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 21.06.2024
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Subjects
Analysis
beyond the standard model
Cosmic rays
early Universe
Energy
Fermions
Flavor (particle physics)
Leptons
Leptons (Nuclear physics)
leptoquarks
Neutrinos
Particle physics
Phenomenology
Physics
quantification models
Quarks
Symmetry
thermodynamics
Unified field theories
United States
phenomenology
thermodynamics
quantification models
early Universe
leptoquarks
beyond the standard model
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Summary:The quartification model is an SU(3)4 extension with a bi-fundamental fermion sector of the well-known SU(3)3 bi-fundamentalfication model. An alternative "flipped" version of the quartification model is obtained by rearrangement of the particle assignments. The flipped model has two standard (bi-fundamentalfication) families and one flipped quartification family. In contrast to traditional product group unification models, flipped quartification stands out by featuring leptoquarks and thus allows for new mechanisms to explain the generation of neutrino masses and possible hints of lepton-flavor non-universality.
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FG05-85ER40226; SC0019235; FG03-94ER40833
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
ISSN:1099-4300
1099-4300
DOI:10.3390/e26070533