2017/06/09 by Jean-François Fortin, Jean-Samuel Leboeuf
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Gauge group #Gauge theory #Grand Unified Theory #Hidden sector #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Higgs mechanism #Higgs sector #Metastability #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Spontaneous symmetry breaking #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Symmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.015025
published as Phys. Rev. D 96, 015025 (2017) · 1+23 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2017/06/09 · openalex created_date 2017/06/23 · openalex publication_date 2017/07/21 · arxiv updated 2017/07/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We introduce fully SUSic grand unified theories (SGUTs), supersymmetry (SUSY) grand unified theories that, upon symmetry breaking through the Higgs mechanism, decompose into a visible sector and an extra sector where the dynamics of the extra sector gauge group is responsible for SUSY breaking. Fully SGUTs thus have the important feature that all gauge groups of the visible sector and the extra sector unify into a simple gauge group at the SGUT scale, therefore generalizing the successful minimal SUSic Standard Model (MSSM) gauge coupling unification to all the gauge couplings of the theory. By focusing on the Intriligator, Seiberg, and Shih (ISS) SUSY-breaking mechanism in the extra sector, we show that it is impossible to reproduce the MSSM matter content when there exists a metastable ISS SUSY-breaking state.