• Corpus ID: 14851188

Grand unification at about 4-TeV

@inproceedings{Frampton2003GrandUA,
  title={Grand unification at about 4-TeV},
  author={Paul H. Frampton},
  year={2003}
}

• P. Frampton
• Published 4 June 2003
• Physics

Use of the AdS/CFT correspondence to arrive at phenomenological gauge field theories is dicussed, focusing on the orbifolded case without supersymmetry. An abelian orbifold with the finite group $Z_{p}$ can give rise to a $G = SU(N)^p$ gauge group with chiral fermions and complex scalars in different bi-fundamental representations of $G$. The precision measurements at the $Z$ resonance suggest the values $p = 12$ and $N = 3$, and a unifications scale $M_U \sim 4$ TeV. Robustness and predictivity of such grand unification is discussed.