Fractionally Charged Color-Singlet Fermions in a Grand Unified Theory

16 November 1981

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 47 (20) , 1429-1432
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1429

Abstract

Grand unified gauge theories that contain fractionally charged color-singlet fermions are considered. The minimal theory of this type is an SU(7) model which requires a rich structure of new physics in the energy region 100-1000 GeV.

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