# Planck 2013  From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale

20-24 May 2013
Bonn
Europe/Berlin timezone
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# Contribution

Bonn - Seminar Room BCTP

# Proton Stability and Gauge Coupling Unification constraints on string derived models

• Viraf MEHTA

## Description

An appealing proposition to explain the suppression of proton decay mediating and other operators, in heterotic string derived models, is the existence of a low scale $Z^\prime$ that forbids the undesired operators, and thus may arise only after $Z^\prime$ breaking. We will discuss the constraints on such a $Z^\prime$ arising in string derived models and focus on the constraints arising from gauge coupling unification. In two contrasting cases we will show that the phenomenological constraints at the electroweak scale necessitate that the $Z^\prime$ charges are embeddable in $E_6$. We will discuss how free fermionic models with the required properties may be constructed.