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Light particles with baryon and lepton numbers

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider light new particles χ\chi and ϕ\phi that carry baryon and lepton numbers. If these particles are lighter than nucleons they lead to exotic decays such as pπ+χp\to \pi^+ \chi and pe+ϕp\to e^+\phi, not yet fully constrained by dedicated searches. For χ\chi and ϕ\phi masses in the GeV range proton decays are kinematically forbidden but other decays of the forms baryon \to meson+χ+\chi, meson \to baryon+χˉ+\bar\chi, and baryon \to anti-lepton+ϕ+\phi involving heavy initial hadrons are allowed. This opens up the possibility to search for apparent baryon number violation not just in underground experiments such as Super-Kamiokande and DUNE but also in decays of heavy hadrons in charm and B factories.

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@article{arxiv.2009.01256,
  title  = {Light particles with baryon and lepton numbers},
  author = {Julian Heeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01256},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, to appear in PLB

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