Ng. Deshpande et al., SO(10) GRAND UNIFICATION WITH A LOW-ENERGY SU(2)R-SYMMETRY-BREAKING SCALE M(R), Physical review letters, 70(21), 1993, pp. 3189-3192
Contrary to commonly held belief, we show that one can obtain a low va
lue for M(R), the SU(2)R breaking scale, in grand unification theories
based on SO(10). This possibility emerges in the supersymmetric versi
on of SO(10) with a judicious choice of Higgs content. The unification
scale is found to be consistent with the constraint from proton decay
. This result is first explicitly demonstrated using the one-loop reno
rmalization group equations, and then a full two-loop analysis is carr
ied out.