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Charged Lepton Spectrum Approximation in a Three Body Nucleon Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-05-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Only phase space is typically used to obtain final state particle spectra in rare decay searches, which is a crude approximation in the case of three body processes. We will demonstrate how both dynamics and phase space can be approximately accounted for, in processes such as nucleon decays pe+νˉνp \rightarrow e^+ \bar{\nu} \nu or pμ+νˉνp \rightarrow \mu^+ \bar{\nu} \nu originating from Grand Unification models, using general effective Fermi theory formalism of electroweak muon decay μe+νˉν\mu \rightarrow e^+ \bar{\nu} \nu. This approach allows for a more precise and only weakly model dependent approximation of final particle spectra for these and similar decays, which may improve rare process searches in current and near-future experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1402.7360,
  title  = {Charged Lepton Spectrum Approximation in a Three Body Nucleon Decay},
  author = {Mu-Chun Chen and Volodymyr Takhistov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.7360},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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