Can all elementary particle forces be unified at 100-1000 TeV?
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 22 (7) , 1753-1759
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.22.1753
Abstract
A modest proposal to deal with the gauge hierarchy problem is suggested by removing the necessary conditions for a huge ratio of vacuum expectation values. Instead of the grand unification at GeV, we unify the electroweak and strong interactions at a low energy 100-1000 TeV. The observed values of and are used as inputs in the determination of the group in the series. The currently favored values of and put a limit on N ≥ 9. In this kind of grand unification, proton stability is a necessity for consistency.
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