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Post-Sphaleron baryogenesis and $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation in non-SUSY SO(10) GUT with gauge coupling unification and proton decay

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Post-sphaleron baryogenesis, a fresh and profound mechanism of baryogenesis accounts for the matter-antimatter asymmetry of our present universe in a framework of Pati-Salam symmetry. We attempt here to embed this mechanism in a non-SUSY SO(10) grand unified theory by reviving a novel symmetry breaking chain with Pati-Salam symmetry as an intermediate symmetry breaking step and as well to address post-sphaleron baryogenesis and neutron-antineutron oscillation in a rational manner. The Pati-Salam symmetry based on the gauge group $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_{R} \times SU(4)_C$ is realized in our model at $10^{5}-10^{6}$ GeV and the mixing time for the neutron-antineutron oscillation process having $ΔB=2$ is found to be $τ_{n-\bar{n}} \simeq 10^{8}-10^{10}\,\mbox{secs}$ with the model parameters which is within the reach of forthcoming experiments. Other novel features of the model includes low scale right-handed $W^{\pm}_R$, $Z_R$ gauge bosons, explanation for neutrino oscillation data via gauged inverse (or extended) seesaw mechanism and most importantly TeV scale color sextet scalar particles responsible for observable $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation which can be accessible to LHC. We also look after gauge coupling unification and estimation of proton life-time with and without the addition of color sextet scalars.

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Sudhanwa Patra, Prativa Pritimita. 2014-09-16. Post-Sphaleron baryogenesis and $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation in non-SUSY SO(10) GUT with gauge coupling unification and proton decay. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc%2Fs10052-014-3078-x

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