Gravitational Waves and Proton Decay as Complementary Windows into Grand Unification

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• Jessica Turner, IPPP Durham
• Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00
• Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

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I will discuss how proton decay combined with gravitational waves can be used to test Grand Unified Theories (GUTs). In particular, proton decay searches by largescale multipurpose neutrino experiments DUNE , Hyper-Kamiokande and JUNO will either discover proton decay or further push the symmetry-breaking scale above 10^16 GeV. Another possible observational consequence of GUTs is the formation of a cosmic string network produced during the breaking of the GUT to the Standard Model gauge group that can produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves, which several gravitational wave detectors will test over a wide frequency range. I will demonstrate the non-trivial complementarity between the observation of proton decay and gravitational waves produced from cosmic strings in determining SO(10) GUT breaking chains and their compatibility with leptogenesis as a means of producing the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry.

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