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Local Baryon Number at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The minimal theory in which baryon number is spontaneously broken at the low scale predicts new fermions, one of which is a dark matter candidate, from gauge anomaly cancellation. We discuss the production mechanisms and decays of these new fermions, which include channels with multi-leptons, and channels with long-lived charged fermions that can give rise to exotic signatures with 'kinked' tracks at the Large Hadron Collider. We evaluate the contraints on the theory from current LHC searches and measurements, and briefly comment on the excess in top pair production at threshold recently reported by CMS. We also discuss predictions for the hγZBh \to \gamma Z_B decay, where hh is the SM-like Higgs and ZBZ_B is the new gauge boson associated with baryon number.

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@article{arxiv.2505.06341,
  title  = {Local Baryon Number at the LHC},
  author = {Jon Butterworth and Hridoy Debnath and Joseph Egan and Pavel Fileviez Perez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.06341},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: minor corrections, to appear in Physical Review D

R2 v1 2026-06-28T23:27:42.338Z