Probing baryon number with missing energy
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| author | Hiller, Gudrun Rodríguez-Sánchez, Antonio Wendler, Daniel |
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| contents | Quark portal interactions $qqqN$ with a light singlet fermion $N$ make baryon number testable through missing transverse energy (MET). We find that present LHC data constrain scales up to 10 TeV (MET plus jet), 8 TeV (MET plus top) and 11 TeV (MET plus bjet). With increasing mass, or larger portal couplings, $N$ becomes less long-lived, and gives clean displaced vertex signatures, which encourage dedicated searches. We also narrow down viable mesogenesis models with color triplet scalars to a mass range $\sim y \,\cdot 3 \, \text{TeV}$ (with charm) and $\sim y \, \cdot 5 \, \text{TeV}$ (charmless) couplings $y$ to $b$ and lighter quarks, a window that can be scrutinized by HL-LHC. Interactions also induce rare decays of type baryon (meson) to meson (baryon) plus invisible, which complement high-$p_T$ searches and can prove baryon number violation. We explore charm decays $Λ_c \to (π,K) + \mathrm{invisible}$. Their branching ratios are subject to sizable hadronic uncertainties and require high luminosity flavor facilities such as a Tera-Z facility (FCC-ee, CEPC). Branching ratios of top quarks into one or two $b$-jets plus $N$ can reach few$\times 10^{-6}$. |
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| spellingShingle | Probing baryon number with missing energy Hiller, Gudrun Rodríguez-Sánchez, Antonio Wendler, Daniel High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quark portal interactions $qqqN$ with a light singlet fermion $N$ make baryon number testable through missing transverse energy (MET). We find that present LHC data constrain scales up to 10 TeV (MET plus jet), 8 TeV (MET plus top) and 11 TeV (MET plus bjet). With increasing mass, or larger portal couplings, $N$ becomes less long-lived, and gives clean displaced vertex signatures, which encourage dedicated searches. We also narrow down viable mesogenesis models with color triplet scalars to a mass range $\sim y \,\cdot 3 \, \text{TeV}$ (with charm) and $\sim y \, \cdot 5 \, \text{TeV}$ (charmless) couplings $y$ to $b$ and lighter quarks, a window that can be scrutinized by HL-LHC. Interactions also induce rare decays of type baryon (meson) to meson (baryon) plus invisible, which complement high-$p_T$ searches and can prove baryon number violation. We explore charm decays $Λ_c \to (π,K) + \mathrm{invisible}$. Their branching ratios are subject to sizable hadronic uncertainties and require high luminosity flavor facilities such as a Tera-Z facility (FCC-ee, CEPC). Branching ratios of top quarks into one or two $b$-jets plus $N$ can reach few$\times 10^{-6}$. |
| title | Probing baryon number with missing energy |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15936 |