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Realistic Flipped SU(5) from Orbifold SO(10)
We propose a realistic flipped SU(5) model derived from a five-dimensional
orbifold SO(10) model. The Standard Model (SM) fermion masses and mixings are
explained by combining the traditional Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism with the
five-dimensional wave function profiles of the SM fermions. Employing
tree-level spontaneous R-symmetry breaking in the hidden sector and
extra(ordinary) gauge mediation, we obtain realistic supersymmetry breaking
soft mass terms with non-vanishing gaugino masses. Including the messenger
fields at the intermediate scale and Kaluza-Klein states at the
compactification scale, we study gauge coupling unification. We show that the
SO(10) unified gauge coupling is very strong and the unification scale can be
much higher than the compactification scale. We briefly discuss proton decay as
well.Comment: 25 pages, 1 fi
Flavor Structures Of Quarks and Leptons From Flipped SU(5) GUT with Modular Flavor Symmetry
We propose to generate the flavor structures of the Standard Model plus
neutrinos from flipped SU(5) GUT with modular flavor symmetry. Possible
way to assign different moduli values for quarks and leptons in modular GUT
scheme is discussed. We propose to reduce the multiple modular symmetries to a
single modular symmetry in the low energy effective theory with proper boundary
conditions. We classify all possible scenarios in this scheme according to the
assignments of the modular representations for matter superfields and
give the expressions of the quark and lepton mass matrices predicted by our
scheme at the GUT scale. After properly selecting the modular weights for
various superfields that can lead to better fitting, we can obtain the best-fit
points with the corresponding values for the sample subscenarios. We
find that the flavor structures of the Standard Model plus neutrinos can be
fitted perfectly in such a modular flavor GUT scheme with single or two
modulus fields. Especially, the of our fitting can be as low
as for sample of scenario even if only a
single common modulus field for both quark and lepton sectors is adopted. The
most predictive scenario , in which all superfields transform as
triplets of , can be fitted much better with two independent moduli fields
for quark sector and lepton sector ( ) than that with the single modulus case ().Comment: 45 pages, 8 table
Deconfinement Phase Transition Heating and Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars
The deconfinement phase transition will lead to the release of latent heat
during spins down of neutron stars if the transition is the first-order one.We
have investigated the thermal evolution of neutron stars undergoing such
deconfinement phase transition. The results show that neutron stars may be
heated to higher temperature.This feature could be particularly interesting for
high temperature of low-magnetic field millisecond pulsar at late stage.Comment: 4 pages, to be published by American Institute of Physics, ed. D.Lai,
X.D.Li and Y.F.Yuan, as the Proceedings of the conference Astrophysics of
Compact Object
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