Baryon number violation involving tau leptons

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Main Authors: Heeck, Julian, Watkins, Dima
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Published: 2024
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author Heeck, Julian
Watkins, Dima
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Watkins, Dima
contents Baryon number violation is our most sensitive probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, especially through the study of nucleon decays. Angular momentum conservation requires a lepton in the final state of such decays, kinematically restricted to electrons, muons, or neutrinos. We show that operators involving taus, which are at first sight too heavy to play a role in nucleon decays, still lead to clean nucleon decay channels with tau neutrinos. While many of them are already constrained from existing two-body searches such as $p\to π^+ν$, other operators induce many-body decays such as $p \to ηπ^{+} \barν_τ$ and $n\to K^+ π^-ν_τ$ that have never been searched for.
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spellingShingle Baryon number violation involving tau leptons
Heeck, Julian
Watkins, Dima
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Baryon number violation is our most sensitive probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, especially through the study of nucleon decays. Angular momentum conservation requires a lepton in the final state of such decays, kinematically restricted to electrons, muons, or neutrinos. We show that operators involving taus, which are at first sight too heavy to play a role in nucleon decays, still lead to clean nucleon decay channels with tau neutrinos. While many of them are already constrained from existing two-body searches such as $p\to π^+ν$, other operators induce many-body decays such as $p \to ηπ^{+} \barν_τ$ and $n\to K^+ π^-ν_τ$ that have never been searched for.
title Baryon number violation involving tau leptons
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18478