CONSTRAINTS FROM PROTON DECAY IN THE FLIPPED SU(5)XU(1) SUPERSTRING MODEL

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LEONTARIS, GK
TAMVAKIS, K
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[1] Theoretical Physics Division, University of Ioannina
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)91621-2
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P1 [天文学];
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We discuss the constraints that emerge from the existence of dimension-5 baryon-violating operators in the flipped SU(5) x U(1) superstring model. These are constraints on matter field assignments and on singlet VEV values. Although baryon-violating dimension-5 operators that appear as quintic non-renormalizable terms vanish as has been proven before and as we verify here, effective dimension-5 operators resulting from Higgs exchange put non-trivial but feasible constraints on the model. Constraints are also extracted from the presence of higher order non-renormalizable terms that generate such operators which do not a priori vanish.
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