Higgs mass scales and matter-anti-matter oscillations in grand unified theories
Abstract
A general discussion of mass scales in grand unified theories is presented, with special emphasis on Higgs scalars which mediate neutron-antineutron (n-anti n) and hydrogen-antihydrogen (H-anti H) oscillations. The analogue of survival hypothesis for fermions naturally makes such particles superheavy, thus leading to unobservable lifetimes. If this hypothesis is relaxed, an interesting possibility of potentially observable n-anti n and H-anti H transitions, mutually related arises in the context of SU(5) theory with spontaneously broken B-L symmetry.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Workshop
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982nao..workQ....S
- Keywords:
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- Antimatter;
- Bosons;
- Fermions;
- Matter (Physics);
- Oscillations;
- Scalars;
- Unified Field Theory;
- Vectors (Mathematics);
- Gauge Theory;
- Matrices (Mathematics);
- Numerical Analysis;
- Quantum Numbers;
- Weak Energy Interactions;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics