https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3078-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Post-sphaleron baryogenesis and
–
oscillation in non-SUSY SO(10) GUT with gauge coupling unification and proton decay
Center of Excellence in Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, 751030, India
* e-mail: sudha.astro@gmail.com
Received:
30
May
2014
Accepted:
15
September
2014
Published online:
30
September
2014
“Post-sphaleron baryogenesis”, a fresh and profound mechanism of baryogenesis accounts for the matter–antimatter asymmetry of our present universe in a framework of Pati–Salam symmetry. We attempt here to embed this mechanism in a non-SUSY SO(10) grand unified theory by reviving a novel symmetry breaking chain with Pati–Salam symmetry as an intermediate symmetry breaking step and as well to address post-sphaleron baryogenesis and neutron–antineutron oscillation in a rational manner. The Pati–Salam symmetry based on the gauge group is realized in our model at
–
GeV and the mixing time for the neutron–antineutron oscillation process having
is found to be
–
s with the model parameters, which is within the reach of forthcoming experiments. Other novel features of the model include low scale right-handed
,
gauge bosons, explanation for neutrino oscillation data via the gauged inverse (or extended) seesaw mechanism and most importantly TeV scale color sextet scalar particles responsible for an observable
–
oscillation which may be accessible to LHC. We also look after gauge coupling unification and an estimation of the proton lifetime with and without the addition of color sextet scalars.
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