Flipped SU(5)

The Flipped SU(5) model is a grand unified theory (GUT) first contemplated by Stephen Barr in 1982, and by Dimitri Nanopoulos and others in 1984. Ignatios Antoniadis, John Ellis, John Hagelin, and Dimitri Nanopoulos developed the supersymmetric flipped SU(5), derived from the deeper-level superstring.

Some current efforts to explain the theoretical underpinnings for observed neutrino masses are being developed in the context of supersymmetric flipped $SU(5)$.

Flipped $SU(5)$ is not a fully unified model, because the $U(1)_{Y}$ factor of the Standard Model gauge group is within the $U(1)$ factor of the GUT group. The addition of states below Mx in this model, while solving certain threshold correction issues in string theory, makes the model merely descriptive, rather than predictive.

The model
The flipped $SU(5)$ model states that the gauge group is:



Fermions form three families, each consisting of the representations


 * $(SU(5) × U(1)_{χ})/Z_{5}$ for the lepton doublet, L, and the up quarks $u^{c}$;
 * $\overline{5}_{−3}$ for the quark doublet, Q, the down quark, $d^{c}$ and the right-handed neutrino, $10_{1}$;
 * $N$ for the charged leptons, $e^{c}$.

This assignment includes three right-handed neutrinos, which have never been observed, but are often postulated to explain the lightness of the observed neutrinos and neutrino oscillations. There is also a $1_{5}$ and/or $10_{1}$ called the Higgs fields which acquire a VEV, yielding the spontaneous symmetry breaking



The $\overline{10}_{−1}$ representations transform under this subgroup as the reducible representation as follows:


 * $$\bar{5}_{-3}\to (\bar{3},1)_{-\frac{2}{3}}\oplus (1,2)_{-\frac{1}{2}}$$ (uc and l)
 * $$10_{1}\to (3,2)_{\frac{1}{6}}\oplus (\bar{3},1)_{\frac{1}{3}}\oplus (1,1)_0$$ (q, dc and νc)
 * $$1_{5}\to (1,1)_1$$ (ec)
 * $$24_0\to (8,1)_0\oplus (1,3)_0\oplus (1,1)_0\oplus (3,2)_{\frac{1}{6}}\oplus (\bar{3},2)_{-\frac{1}{6}}$$.

Comparison with the standard SU(5)
The name "flipped" $(SU(5) × U(1)_{χ})/Z_{5} → (SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1)_{Y})/Z_{6}$ arose in comparison to the "standard" $SU(5)$ Georgi–Glashow model, in which $u^{c}$ and $d^{c}$ quark are respectively assigned to the $SU(5)$ and $SU(5)$ representation. In comparison with the standard $10$, the flipped $5$ can accomplish the spontaneous symmetry breaking using Higgs fields of dimension 10, while the standard $SU(5)$ typically requires a 24-dimensional Higgs.

The sign convention for $SU(5)$ varies from article/book to article.

The hypercharge Y/2 is a linear combination (sum) of the following:


 * $$\begin{pmatrix}{1 \over 15}&0&0&0&0\\0&{1 \over 15}&0&0&0\\0&0&{1 \over 15}&0&0\\0&0&0&-{1 \over 10}&0\\0&0&0&0&-{1 \over 10}\end{pmatrix}\in \text{SU}(5), \qquad \chi/5.$$

There are also the additional fields $SU(5)$ and $U(1)_{χ}$ containing the electroweak Higgs doublets.

Calling the representations for example, $5_{−2}$ and $\overline{5}_{2}$ is purely a physicist's convention, not a mathematician's convention, where representations are either labelled by Young tableaux or Dynkin diagrams with numbers on their vertices, and is a standard used by GUT theorists.

Since the homotopy group


 * $$\pi_2\left(\frac{[SU(5)\times U(1)_\chi]/\mathbf{Z}_5}{[SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)_Y]/\mathbf{Z}_6}\right)=0$$

this model does not predict monopoles. See 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole.



Spacetime
The $\overline{5}_{−3}$ superspace extension of $24_{0}$ Minkowski spacetime

Spatial symmetry
$SU(5)$ SUSY over $N = 1$ Minkowski spacetime with R-symmetry

Gauge symmetry group
$3 + 1$

Global internal symmetry
$N = 1$ (matter parity) not related to $3 + 1$ in any way for this particular model

Vector superfields
Those associated with the $(SU(5) × U(1)_{χ})/Z_{5}$ gauge symmetry

Chiral superfields
As complex representations:

Superpotential
A generic invariant renormalizable superpotential is a (complex) $Z_{2}$ invariant cubic polynomial in the superfields which has an $U(1)_{R}$-charge of 2. It is a linear combination of the following terms:

$$\begin{matrix} S&S\\ S 10_H \overline{10}_H & S 10_H^{\alpha\beta} \overline{10}_{H\alpha\beta}\\ 10_H 10_H H_d&\epsilon_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon}10_H^{\alpha\beta}10_H^{\gamma\delta} H_d^{\epsilon}\\ \overline{10}_H\overline{10}_H H_u&\epsilon^{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon}\overline{10}_{H\alpha\beta}\overline{10}_{H\gamma\delta}H_{u\epsilon}\\ H_d 10 10&\epsilon_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta\epsilon}H_d^{\alpha}10_i^{\beta\gamma}10_j^{\delta\epsilon}\\ H_d \bar{5} 1 &H_d^\alpha \bar{5}_{i\alpha} 1_j\\ H_u 10 \bar{5}&H_{u\alpha} 10_i^{\alpha\beta} \bar{5}_{j\beta}\\ \overline{10}_H 10 \phi&\overline{10}_{H\alpha\beta} 10_i^{\alpha\beta} \phi_j\\ \end{matrix} $$

The second column expands each term in index notation (neglecting the proper normalization coefficient). $X$ and $φ$ are the generation indices. The coupling $SU(5) × U(1)_{χ}$ has coefficients which are symmetric in $S$ and $i$.

In those models without the optional $j$ sterile neutrinos, we add the nonrenormalizable couplings instead.

$$\begin{matrix} (\overline{10}_H 10)(\overline{10}_H 10)&\overline{10}_{H\alpha\beta}10^{\alpha\beta}_i \overline{10}_{H\gamma\delta} 10^{\gamma\delta}_j\\ \overline{10}_H 10 \overline{10}_H 10&\overline{10}_{H\alpha\beta}10^{\beta\gamma}_i\overline{10}_{H\gamma\delta}10^{\delta\alpha}_j \end{matrix}$$

These couplings do break the R-symmetry.