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Instanton-mediated baryon number violation in non-universal gauge extended models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Instanton solutions of non-abelian Yang-Mills theories generate an effective action that may induce lepton and baryon number violations, namely ΔB=ΔL=nf\Delta B = \Delta L = n_f, being nfn_f the number of families coupled to the gauge group. In this article we study instanton mediated processes in a SU(2)SU(2)hU(1)SU(2)_{\ell} \otimes SU(2)_h \otimes U(1) extension of the Standard Model that breaks universality by singularizing the third family. In the construction of the instanton Green functions we account systematically for the inter-family mixing. This allows us to use the experimental bounds on proton decay in order to constrain the gauge coupling of SU(2)hSU(2)_h. Tau lepton non-leptonic and radiative decays with ΔB=ΔL=1\Delta B = \Delta L = 1 are also analysed.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2471,
  title  = {Instanton-mediated baryon number violation in non-universal gauge extended models},
  author = {J. Fuentes-Martin and J. Portoles and P. Ruiz-Femenia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2471},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

33 pages, 3 figures. Further explanations about the instanton solutions for the G(221) model added in a new appendix, conclusions unchanged. Version published in JHEP