APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker: George Zoupanos (NTUA)
Title: Quantum Reduction of Couplings with Applications on Finite Unified Theories and the MSSM
Date (JST): Wed, Feb 04, 2015, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Abstract: We apply the method of reduction of couplings in a Finite Unified Theory (FUT) and in the MSSM. The method consists on searching for renormalization group invariant relations among couplings of a renormalizable theory holding to all orders in perturbation theory. It has a remarkable predictive power since, at the unication scale, it leads to relations between gauge and Yukawa couplings in the dimensionless sectors and relations involving the trilinear terms and the Yukawa couplings, as well as a sum rule among the scalar masses and the unified gaugino mass in the soft breaking sector. In both the MSSM and the FUT model we predict the masses of the top and bottom quarks and the light Higgs in remarkable agreement with the experiment. Furthermore we also predict the masses of the other Higgses, as well as the supersymmetric spectrum, both being in very comfortable agreement with the LHC bounds on Higgs and supersymmetric particles.