By Dima Bardin, Giampiero Passarino

The traditional version in particle physics unifies the theories of electromagnetic and susceptible interactions. a lot paintings has been during the last decade, and this publication describes a few of the best experimental checks of the version. it truly is particular in amassing in a single quantity the entire formulation, recipes, and prescriptions helpful for trying out the idea and may be a useful software as experiments flow into greater energies.

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However, with the LEP data on αc [8] they meet within the experimental error bounds [39]. Thus, SUSY GUT models with the MSSM spectrum below MU seem to have some truth to them. At present, supersymmetry is the most popular scenario for the solution of the gauge hierarchy problem, and is why the phenomenological aspects of MSSM are so vigorously studied. But the MSSM has some serious theoretical problems related to the following issues; • • • • • • • • 15(+1) chiral fermions in one family, number of fermion families ≥ 3, probably exactly 3, N = 1 supersymmetry, gauge hierarchy, doublet-triplet splitting, one pair of Higgsinos, H1 and H2 , 3 the hypercharge quantization, sin2 θW 8 at GUT scale, absence of strong CP violation, as well as more detailed questions such as that pertaining to the hierarchies of Yukawa couplings.

Namely, the twisted sector θ is divided into subsectors depending on the fixed point f . This expression will be extensively used in calculating quantities related with fixed points. 19) when j1 or j2 is smaller than k, to make a lattice element. In this case, the conjugacy class does not have one to one correspondence with fixed points under θk . This is because some of them are not fixed points under θ (rotation by smaller angles). In this sense, the conjugacy class is a more fundamental concept than the fixed point.

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