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We discuss proton decay in a recently proposed model of supersymmetric hybrid inflation based on the gauge symmetry SU(4)c × SU(2)L × SU(2)R. A U(1) R symmetry plays an essential role in realizing inflation as well as in eliminating some undesirable baryon number violating operators. Proton decay is primarily mediated by a variety of color triplets from chiral superfields, and it lies in the observable range for a range of intermediate scale masses for the triplets. The decay modes include p → e+(μ+) + π0, \( p\to \overline{\nu}+{\pi}^{+} \), p → K 0 + e+(μ+), and \( p\to {K}^{+}+\overline{\nu} \), with a lifetime estimate of order 1034–1036 yrs and accessible at Hyper-Kamiokande and future upgrades. The unification at the Grand Unified Theory (GUT) scale MGUT (∼ 1016 GeV) of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) gauge couplings is briefly discussed.
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Lazarides, G., Rehman, M.U. & Shafi, Q. Proton decay in supersymmetric SU(4)c × SU(2)L × SU(2)R. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 85 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2020)085
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