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Three lepton decay modes of the proton

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We consider the three lepton decay modes of the proton within the proton decay interpretation of the atmospheric neutrino anomaly. We construct higher dimensional operators in the framework of the standard model. The operators which allow the particularly interesting decay mode are of dimension 10 involving SU(2)LSU(2)_L non-singlet higgs. We show how these operators can be comparable to the dimension 9 operators. We then present a simple left-right symmetric model which can give rise to the desired proton decay modes of the right order of magnitude.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9307254,
  title  = {Three lepton decay modes of the proton},
  author = {Patrick J. O'Donnell and Utpal Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9307254},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, UTPT-93-13, Latex file with one postscript figure to be cut from the end of the Latex file

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