Speaker
Dr
Renato Fonseca
(Instituto de Física Corpuscular (University of Valencia/CSIC))
Description
Grand unified theories have been with us for more than four decades. While attractive, the standard SU(5) and SO(10) models fail to shed light on the flavour problem since, just like the Standard Model, they too place the fermions in three copies of representations of the enlarged gauge group.
What about the possibility of having family unification by putting all fermions in a single representation? In this talk I will report on this possibility based on an extensive computer scan over (I) different unification groups G, (II) different embeddings of the SM group in G, and (III) different representations of G. It turns out that family unification is possible with large SU(N) groups - for example, one can place all fermions in the 171 representation of SU(19).
Primary author
Dr
Renato Fonseca
(Instituto de Física Corpuscular (University of Valencia/CSIC))
