Conveners
Atoms, nuclei, molecules, and spectroscopy
- Chair: Robert Ziegler (University of Freiburg and KIT)
In this talk I will present the latest developments on the minimal potentially realistic non-supersymmetric SO(10) GUT model with the scalar sector consisting of 45+126+10. This model is known to suffer from tachyonic instabilities in the spectrum at tree-level, but quantum corrections to the scalar potential may cure this problem - a route worth investigating, since this particular SO(10) GUT...
Neutron to hidden neutron oscillation (n − n') experiments
are one of the several probes for testing the existence of hidden sector worlds [1,
2]. Although hidden states of matter were originally proposed to restore, on a
general picture, the breaking of P and CP symmetries [4], currently they also
correspond to candidates for dark matter [3]. In this work, we present a new
experimental...
The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) is one of the main
cornerstones of the Quantum Theory. Violation of the PEP, albeit small, could be
motivated by physics beyond the Standard Model which entail extra space
dimensions, violation of the Lorentz invariance, non-commutative space-time.
These scenarios can be experimentally constrained with stat-of-the-art X-ray
spectroscopy, searching for...
Any grand unified model is plagued with particles capable of inducing
proton decay. Identifying all potential scalar proton decay mediators
stemming from different irreducible representations of SO(10), we
will show their coupling with the Standard Model fermions, tree-level
contributions of the effective strength of $B-L$ conserving($d=6$),
and $B-L$ violating($d=7$) operators to proton...
