Hartmann, Florian: Flavour symmetries in Pati-Salam Grand Unifying TheoriesFlavour Symmetrien in Pati-Salam vereinheitlichten Theorien. 2015
Content
- Abstract
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. General Overview & TheoreticalBackground
- 1. Grand Unified Theories
- 1.1 Selected Aspects of the Standard Model
- 1.2 Reasons for going Beyond the SM
- 1.3 Supersymmetry
- 1.4 Roadmap to Unification
- 2. Flavour Symmetries; SM and Beyond
- Part II. Explicit Models of Flavour in Pati-Salam
- 3. PS-Breaking and Gauge Coupling Unification
- 3.1 Intermediate Symmetries and Scales
- 3.2 Particle Content and VEV Structure
- 3.3. Superpotential and Higgs Mechanism
- 3.4 Spectra and Phenomenology
- 3.5 Unification Conditions
- 3.6 Unification within Supersymmetry
- 3.7 Unification Without Supersymmetry
- 3.8 Summary
- 4. Effective Theory of Flavour
- 4.1 Model Framework
- 4.2 A Triplet-Flavon Model
- 4.3 Larger Flavon Representations
- 4.4 Flavon Decuplet Model
- 4.5 Summary
- 5. Gauged Flavour Symmetry
- 5.1. Motivation
- 5.2 Model Setup
- 5.3 Quark Flavour Sector
- 5.3.1 Approximate Flavour Structure
- 5.3.2 Diagonalising the Mass Matrix
- 5.3.3 Gauge Kinetic Terms
- 5.3.4 Higgs Coupling
- 5.4 Lepton Sector
- 5.4.1 Effective Ansatz
- 5.4.2 Single Scalar extension
- 5.4.3 GRV-like extension
- 5.4.4 Resulting Lepton Sector
- 5.5 Phenomenology of the Quark Sector
- 5.6. Comments on a Supersymmetric Extension
- 5.7. Summary
- 6. Conclusions & Outlook
- Appendix
- A. Unification Model
- A.1 Model Naming Scheme
- A.2 Mass Matrices
- A.3 Vacuum Expectation Values and Mass Scales
- A.4 Beta-Function Coefficients
- B. Low-Energy Flavour Model
- C. Low-Energy Flavour Symmetry Breaking
- Bibliography
- Danksagung
- List of publications