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Grand Unified Theories

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Attempts of going beyond the standard model to achieve a unification of all particle interactions lead to constructions called grand unifications, or grand unified theories. Two such theories are discussed in this chapter.

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Derdzinski, A. (1992). Grand Unified Theories. In: Geometry of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50310-8_7

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