Suppressing Proton Decay in Theories with Localised Fermions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We calculate the contribution to the proton decay amplitude from Kaluza-Klein lepto-quarks in theories with extra dimensions, localised fermions and gauge fields which propagate in the bulk. Such models naturally occur within the context of M-theory. In SU(5) models we show that carefully including all such modes gives a distinctive pattern of decays through various channels including a strong suppression of decays into neutrinos or right handed positrons. By contrast there is no such suppression for SO(10).
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512144,
title = {Suppressing Proton Decay in Theories with Localised Fermions},
author = {Bobby S. Acharya and Roberto Valandro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512144},
year = {2009}
}
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19 pages