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Baryon Number Violation Involving Higher Generations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

Proton stability seems to constrain rather strongly any baryon number violating process. We investigate the possibility of baryon number violating processes involving right-handed dynamics or higher generation quarks. Our results strongly suggest that there will be no possibility to observe baryon number violation in tau or higher generation quark decays, at any future machine.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0509006,
  title  = {Baryon Number Violation Involving Higher Generations},
  author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Makiko Nagashima and Andrea Soddu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0509006},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Improved figures, small changes in the text, added reference. To appear in Phys. Rev. D

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