Fractionally Charged Color-Singlet Fermions in a Grand Unified Theory
- 16 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (20), 1429-1432
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1429
Abstract
Grand unified gauge theories that contain fractionally charged color-singlet fermions are considered. The minimal theory of this type is an SU(7) model which requires a rich structure of new physics in the energy region 100-1000 GeV.Keywords
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