Comparatively light extra Higgs states as signature of SUSY SO(10) GUTs with 3rd family Yukawa unification

Abstract

We study 3rd family Yukawa unification in the context of supersymmetric (SUSY) SO(10) GUTs and SO(10)-motivated boundary conditions for the SUSY-breaking soft terms. We consider µ < 0 such that the SUSY loop-threshold effects enable a good fit to all third family masses of the charged Standard Model (SM) fermions. We find that fitting the third family masses together with the mass of the SM-like Higgs particle, the scenario predicts the masses of the superpartner particles and of the extra Higgs states of the MSSM: while the sparticles are predicted to be comparatively heavy (above the present LHC bound but within reach of future colliders), the spectrum has the characteristic feature that the lightest new particles are the extra MSSM Higgses. We show that this effect is rather robust with respect to many deformations of the GUT boundary conditions, but turns out to be sensitive to the exactness of top-bottom Yukawa unification. Nevertheless, with moderate deviations of a few percent from exact top-bottom Yukawa unification (stemming e.g. from GUT-threshold corrections or higher-dimensional operators), the scenario still predicts extra MSSM Higgs particles with masses not much above 1.5 TeV, which could be tested e.g. by future LHC searches for ditau decays H 0 /A 0 → τ τ . Finding the extra MSSM Higges before the other new MSSM particles could thus be a smoking gun for a Yukawa unified SO(10) GUT.

Unification of the four forces in the Spin(11,1) geometric algebra

“…Y L c [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. The various choices lead to the prediction of various scalar or other particles, which could potentially form the dark matter [35][36][37][38][39][40][41], or produce experimentally detectable signatures [42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. Yet other possibilities arise if the grand symmetry group is enlarged.…”

“…The minimal Higgs sector consists of the dimension 66 adjoint representation of Spin (11,1). This is simpler than the standard Spin (10) model, whose Higgs sector requires [9] several distinct multiplets, typically a bivector (45) to break grand symmetry, a vector (10) to break electroweak symmetry, and a pentavector (126) to break B − L symmetry to allow the right-handed neutrino to acquire a Majorana mass. The minimal symmetry breaking chain in Spin (11,1) proceeds by the Pati-Salam group Spin(4) w × Spin (6) c , as first proposed by [24], and advocated by [30,31], albeit with a different Higgs The predicted energy of grand unification from Spin(10, 1) is 10 15 GeV, which is less than the lower limit of 4 × 10 15 GeV obtained by [9] from the Super-Kamiokande lower limit on proton lifetime [8], so the Spin (11,1) model may already be ruled out by proton decay.…”