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SUMMARY: Gravitational Waves and Proton Decay as Complementary Windows int
 o Grand Unification - Jessica Turner\, IPPP Durham
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CONTACT:Jim Talbert
DESCRIPTION:I will discuss how proton decay combined with gravitational wa
 ves can be used to test Grand Unified Theories (GUTs). In particular\, pro
 ton decay searches by largescale multipurpose neutrino experiments DUNE\, 
 Hyper-Kamiokande and JUNO will either discover proton decay or further pus
 h the symmetry-breaking scale above 10^16 GeV. Another possible observatio
 nal consequence of GUTs is the formation of a cosmic string network produc
 ed during the breaking of the GUT to the Standard Model gauge group that c
 an produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves\, which several 
 gravitational wave detectors will test over a wide frequency range. I will
  demonstrate the non-trivial complementarity between the observation of pr
 oton decay and gravitational waves produced from cosmic strings in determi
 ning SO(10) GUT breaking chains and their compatibility with leptogenesis 
 as a means of producing the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry.
LOCATION:Both in-person (at MR2\, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by
  email)
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