Nuclear Physics B259 (1985) 503-532
© North-Holland Publishing Company
LOW-ENERGY PREDICTIONS OF A TWO-LOOP FINITE
SUPERSYMMETRIC SU s THEORY
J.E. BJC)RKMAN and D.R.T. JONES*
Department of Physics, Universi(y of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
S. RABY
Theory Group, T-8 MSB-285, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Received 3 January 1985
(Revised 15 April 1985)
We present a detailed discussion of a two-loop finite supersymmetric SU 5 theory, with
particular emphasis on the new particle mass spectrum and its dependence on the input parame-
ters. The model predicts sin20w = 0.237, mb/m ~ = 1.8 (at Mw) and Mx = 5.3 × 1015 GeV, which
means that nucleon decay, if observable, will be to strange final states. We find in general
mg> mc~> me, and that results consistent with a supersymmetric explanation of the CERN
monojet and "top-quark" events are possible, in which case we predict light (0(20 GeV)) charged
scalar leptons.
1. Introduction
The recent demonstration [1-3] that any one-loop finite supersymmetric Yang-
Mills theory (SYM) is two-loop finite has raised the possibility that the set of
ultraviolet finite four-dimensional field theories may be larger than the known [4]
N = 4 and N = 2 examples. A classification of groups and representations compati-
ble with the finiteness conditions has been presented [5], and the most promising
candidate for a grand unified theory, an SU 5 model, has been discussed [6, 7]. In this
paper we present a critical and detailed analysis of the SU 5 model, emphasizing the
low-energy predictions for new particle masses. We introduce a set of supersymme-
try-breaking masses and interactions compatible with finiteness [1, 8] and show that,
with these interactions, we have gauge symmetry breaking to SU 3 x SU 2 x U 1 at the
tree level and to SU 3 x U 1 via radiative corrections. The mechanism for radiative
SU 2 × U 1 breaking we employ has been explored in some detail (for a review and
references see [9]); the essential new feature of our work is the restricted form of the
*Address from February 1st 1985: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Liverpool, PO Box 147. Liverpool L69 3BX, England.
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