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arxiv: hep-ph/0405199 · v1 · submitted 2004-05-20 · ✦ hep-ph

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Family Unification on an Orbifold

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keywords orbifoldflavorgaugemodelsymmetryarisingboundarybreaking
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We construct a family-unified model on a Z_2xZ_2 orbifold in five dimensions. The model is based on a supersymmetric SU(7) gauge theory. The gauge group is broken by orbifold boundary conditions to a product of grand unified SU(5) and SU(2)xU(1) flavor symmetry. The structure of Yukawa matrices is generated by an interplay between spontaneous breaking of flavor symmetry and geometric factors arising due to field localization in the extra dimension.

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