Implications of Flavor Symmetries for Baryon Number Violation
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| author | Beneito, Arnau Bas i Palavrić, Ajdin Sainaghi, Andrea |
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| contents | In the Standard Model, baryon number is an accidental symmetry, whose violation would constitute unambiguous evidence of new physics, with proton decay providing its most prominent experimental signature. At the same time, the peculiar structure of flavor can serve as a guiding principle for exploring possible new-physics effects. In this work, we present a systematic classification of dimension-six baryon-number-violating (BNV) SMEFT operators across several flavor-symmetry assumptions and analyze the resulting phenomenology. Interestingly, in certain flavor scenarios the non-trivial interplay with tiny neutrino masses leads to proton-decay constraints compatible with BNV scales in the multi-TeV range. Finally, we complement the EFT analysis by identifying one-particle UV completions of the BNV operators, revealing scenarios in which the leading-order EFT description may not fully account for their underlying dynamics. |
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| spellingShingle | Implications of Flavor Symmetries for Baryon Number Violation Beneito, Arnau Bas i Palavrić, Ajdin Sainaghi, Andrea High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment In the Standard Model, baryon number is an accidental symmetry, whose violation would constitute unambiguous evidence of new physics, with proton decay providing its most prominent experimental signature. At the same time, the peculiar structure of flavor can serve as a guiding principle for exploring possible new-physics effects. In this work, we present a systematic classification of dimension-six baryon-number-violating (BNV) SMEFT operators across several flavor-symmetry assumptions and analyze the resulting phenomenology. Interestingly, in certain flavor scenarios the non-trivial interplay with tiny neutrino masses leads to proton-decay constraints compatible with BNV scales in the multi-TeV range. Finally, we complement the EFT analysis by identifying one-particle UV completions of the BNV operators, revealing scenarios in which the leading-order EFT description may not fully account for their underlying dynamics. |
| title | Implications of Flavor Symmetries for Baryon Number Violation |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14813 |