Constraining Proton Lifetime in SO(10) with Stabilized Doublet-Triplet Splitting

Abstract

We present a class of realistic unified models based on supersymmetric SO(10) wherein issues related to natural doublet-triplet (DT) splitting are fully resolved. Using a minimal set of low dimensional Higgs fields which includes a single adjoint, we show that the Dimopoulos--Wilzcek mechanism for DT splitting can be made stable in the presence of all higher order operators without having pseudo-Goldstone bosons and flat directions. The μterm of order TeV is found to be naturally induced. A Z_2-assisted anomalous U(1)_A gauge symmetry plays a crucial role in achieving these results. The threshold corrections to alpha_3(M_Z), somewhat surprisingly, are found to be controlled by only a few effective parameters. This leads to a very predictive scenario for proton decay. As a novel feature, we find an interesting correlation between the d=6 (p\to e^+π^0) and d=5 (p\to ν-bar K+) decay amplitudes which allows us to derive a constrained upper limit on the inverse rate of the e^+π^0 mode. Our results show that both modes should be observed with an improvement in the current sensitivity by about a factor of five to ten.

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