Testing Realistic $SO(10)$ SUSY GUTs with Proton Decay and Gravitational Waves

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Main Authors: Fu, Bowen, King, Stephen F., Marsili, Luca, Pascoli, Silvia, Turner, Jessica, Zhou, Ye-Ling
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author Fu, Bowen
King, Stephen F.
Marsili, Luca
Pascoli, Silvia
Turner, Jessica
Zhou, Ye-Ling
author_facet Fu, Bowen
King, Stephen F.
Marsili, Luca
Pascoli, Silvia
Turner, Jessica
Zhou, Ye-Ling
contents We present a comprehensive analysis of a supersymmetric $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theory, which is broken to the Standard Model via the breaking of two intermediate symmetries. The spontaneous breaking of the first intermediate symmetry, $B-L$, leads to the generation of cosmic strings and right-handed neutrino masses and further to an observable cosmological background of gravitational waves and generation of light neutrino masses via type-I seesaw mechanism. Supersymmetry breaking manifests as sparticle masses below the $B-L$ breaking but far above the electroweak scale due to proton decay limits. This naturally pushes the $B-L$ breaking scale close to the GUT scale, leading to the formation of metastable cosmic strings, which can provide a gravitational wave spectrum consistent with the recent Pulsar Timing Arrays observation. We perform a detailed analysis of this model using two-loop renormalisation group equations, including threshold corrections, to determine the symmetry-breaking scale consistent with the recent Pulsar Timing Arrays signals such as NANOGrav 15-year data and testable by the next-generation limits on proton decay from Hyper-K and JUNO. Simultaneously, we find the regions of the model parameter space that can predict the measured quark and lepton masses and mixing, baryon asymmetry of our Universe, a viable dark matter candidate and can be tested by a combination of neutrinoless double beta decay searches and limits on the sum of neutrinos masses.
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spellingShingle Testing Realistic $SO(10)$ SUSY GUTs with Proton Decay and Gravitational Waves
Fu, Bowen
King, Stephen F.
Marsili, Luca
Pascoli, Silvia
Turner, Jessica
Zhou, Ye-Ling
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We present a comprehensive analysis of a supersymmetric $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theory, which is broken to the Standard Model via the breaking of two intermediate symmetries. The spontaneous breaking of the first intermediate symmetry, $B-L$, leads to the generation of cosmic strings and right-handed neutrino masses and further to an observable cosmological background of gravitational waves and generation of light neutrino masses via type-I seesaw mechanism. Supersymmetry breaking manifests as sparticle masses below the $B-L$ breaking but far above the electroweak scale due to proton decay limits. This naturally pushes the $B-L$ breaking scale close to the GUT scale, leading to the formation of metastable cosmic strings, which can provide a gravitational wave spectrum consistent with the recent Pulsar Timing Arrays observation. We perform a detailed analysis of this model using two-loop renormalisation group equations, including threshold corrections, to determine the symmetry-breaking scale consistent with the recent Pulsar Timing Arrays signals such as NANOGrav 15-year data and testable by the next-generation limits on proton decay from Hyper-K and JUNO. Simultaneously, we find the regions of the model parameter space that can predict the measured quark and lepton masses and mixing, baryon asymmetry of our Universe, a viable dark matter candidate and can be tested by a combination of neutrinoless double beta decay searches and limits on the sum of neutrinos masses.
title Testing Realistic $SO(10)$ SUSY GUTs with Proton Decay and Gravitational Waves
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05799