Bileptons - Status and Prospects

Theoretical backgound for bileptonic gauge bosons is reviewed, both the SU(15) GUT model and the 3-3-1 model. Then the mass limits for bileptons are discussed coming from e+e− scattering, polarized muon decay and muoniumantimuonium conversion. A consequence of precision electroweak data on the masses is mentioned. Discovery in e−e− at a linear collider is emphasised. Theoretical Background. The simplest grand unified theory (GUT) is SU(5) where each family is (10 + 5̄)L. The gauge bosons mediate proton decay with (in the minimal form) too fast a rate. The gauge bosons have no definite B or L, only (B − L) which is conserved. SU(15) arose from the idea of having unification where the gauge bosons have well-defined B (and L) and so do not mediate proton decay. Each family is assigned to a 15 of SU(15); each of the 224 gauge bosons then have a definite B and L. Hence proton decay is absent in the gauge sector. The first stage of symmetry breaking takes SU(15) to SU(12)q × SU(3)l at a GUT scale MG. SU(3)l acts on the lepton triplet (e , νe, e ) and contains the SU(2) doublet of gauge bosons (Y , Y ) and the antiparticles (Y , Y ). These bileptons have a mass at or just above the weak scale, say in the region 300GeV to 600GeV (this can be made more rigorous). In particular, the idea that a narrow resonance might appear in ee → μμ was suggested in . The width is predicted as a few per cent of the mass. The anomaly cancellation of SU(15) is inelegant: by mirror fermions. This is an aesthetic consideration not a phenomenological one. Nevertheless, it is interesting to know that there is a chiral model which incorporates the bileptons. To introduce the 331 Model the following are motivating factors: i) Consistency of a gauge theory (unitarity, renormalizability) requires anomaly cancellation. This requirement almost alone is able to fix all electric charges and other quantum numbers within one family of the standard model. This accounts for charge quantization, e.g. the neutrality of the hydrogen atom, without the need for a GUT. ii)This does not explain why Nf > 1 for the number of families but is sufficiently impressive to suggest that Nf = 3 may be explicable by anomaly cancellation in an extension of the standard model. This requires that each extended family have non-vanishing anomaly and that the three families are not all treated similarly. iii) A striking feature of the mass spectrum in the SM is the top mass suggesting that the 3rd. family be treated differently and that the anomaly cancellation be proportional to: +1 +1 -2 = 0. iv)There is a ” -2 ” lurking in the SM in the ratio of the quark electric charges! v)The electroweak gauge group extension from SU(2) to SU(3) will add five gauge bosons. The adjoint of SU(3) breaks into 8 = 3 + (2 + 2) + 1 under SU(2). The 1 is a Z ′ and the two doublets are readily identifiable from the leptonic triplet or antitriplet (e, νe, e ) as bilepton gauge bosons (Y , Y ) with L = 2 and (Y , Y ) with L = −2. Such bileptons appeared first in stable-proton GUTs but there the fermions were non-chiral and one needed to invoke mirror fermions; this is precisely what is avoided in the 331 Model. But it is true that the SU(3) of the 331 Model has the same couplings to the leptons as that of the leptonic SU(3)l subgroup of SU(15) which breaks to SU(12)q × SU(3)l . Now I am ready to introduce the 331 Model in its technical details: the gauge group of the standard model is extended to SU(3) × SU(3) × U(1) where the electroweak SU(3) contains the standard SU(2) and the weak hypercharge is a mixture of λ8 with the U(1). The leptons are in the antitriplet (e , νe, e )L and similarly for the μ and τ . These antitriplets have X = 0 where X is the new U(1) charge. This can be checked by noting that the X value is the electric charge of the central member of the triplet or antitriplet. For the first family of quarks I use the triplet (u, d,D)L with X = −1/3 and the right-handed counterparts in singlets. Similarly, the second family of quarks is treated. For the third family of quarks, on the other hand, I use the antitriplet (T, t, b)L with X = +2/3. The new exotic quarks D, S, and T have charges -4/3, -4/3 and +5/3 respectively. It is instructive to see how this combination successfully cancels all chiral anomalies: The purely color anomaly (3L) 3 cancels because QCD is vector-like. The anomaly (3L) 3 is non-trivial. Taking, for the moment, arbitrary numbers Nc of colors and Nl of light neutrinos I find this anomaly cancels only if Nc = Nl = 3. The remaining anomalies (3c) X, (3L) X, X and X(T 2 μν also cancel. Each family separately has non-zero anomaly for X, (3L) X and (3L) ; in each case, the anomalies cancel proportionally to +1 + 1− 2 between the families. To break the symmetry I need several Higgs multiplets. A triplet Φ with X = +1 and VEV < Φ > = (0, 0, U) breaks 331 to the standard 321 group, and gives masses to D, S, and T as well as to the gauge bosons Y and Z’. The scale U sets the range of the new physics and I shall discuss more about its possible value. The electroweak breaking requires two further triplets φ and φ with X = 0 and X = −1 respectively. Their VEVs give masses to d, s, t and to u, c, b respectively. The first VEV also gives a contribution of an antisymmetric-in-family type to the charged leptons. To complete a satisfactory lepton mass matrix necessitates adding a sextet with X = 0. What can the scale U be? It turns out that there is not only the lower bound expected from the constraint of the precision electroweak data, but also an upper bound coming from a group theoretical constraint within the theory itself. The lower bound on U from Z−Z ′ mixing can be derived from the diagonalization of the mass matrix and leads to M(Z ) ≥ 300GeV . The limit from FCNC (the Glashow Weinberg rule is violated) gives a similar bound; here the suppression is helped by ubiquitous (1− 4sinθ) factors. In these considerations, particularly with regard to FCNC, the special role played by the third family is crucial; if either of the first two families is the one treated asymmetrically the FCNC disagree with experiment. The upper bound on U arises because the embedding of the standard 321 group in 331 requires that sinθ ≤ 1/4. When sinθ = 1/4, the SU(2)×U(1) group embeds entirely in SU(3), and the coupling of the X charge in principle diverges. Because the phenomenological value is close to 1/4 actually sinθ(MZ) = 0.233 the scale U must be less than about 3TeV after scaling sinθ(μ) by the renormalization group. Putting some reasonable upper bound on the X coupling leads to an upper bound on the bilepton mass, for this 331 Model, of about 800GeV [ Here I have allowed one further Higgs multiplet an octet].