Proton Decay and the Origin of Quark and Lepton Mixing

Jul 22, 2013
13 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2013) 049
  • Published: 2013
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Abstract: (arXiv)
It was recently proposed that all flavor mixing has a single source, namely the mixing of the three quark and lepton families with "extra" vectorlike fermions in 5 + 5-bar multiplets of SU(5). This was shown to lead to several testable predictions including neutrino masses and CP-violating phases. Here it is shown that the mixing angles within grand unified fermion multiplets are also predicted. Proton decay branching ratios would thus give several independent tests of the model. Certain model parameters could be determined independently from the quark and lepton spectrum and from proton decay.
Note:
  • 13 pages
  • GUT
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Quark Masses and SM Parameters
  • p: decay
  • flavor: mixing
  • lepton: mixing
  • quark: mixing
  • CKM matrix
  • fermion: multiplet
  • fermion: vector particle