Baryon Number Violation

K. S. Babu, E. Kearns, U. Al-Binni, S. Banerjee, D. V. Baxter, Z. Berezhiani, M. Bergevin, S. Bhattacharya, S. Brice, R. Brock, T. W. Burgess, L. Castellanos, S. Chattopadhyay, M-C. Chen, E. Church, C. E. Coppola, D. F. Cowen, R. Cowsik, J. A. Crabtree, H. Davoudiasl, R. Dermisek, A. Dolgov, B. Dutta, G. Dvali, P. Ferguson, P. Fileviez Perez, T. Gabriel, A. Gal, F. Gallmeier, K. S. Ganezer, I. Gogoladze, E. S. Golubeva, V. B. Graves, G. Greene, T. Handler, B. Hartfiel, A. Hawari, L. Heilbronn, J. Hill, D. Jaffe, C. Johnson, C. K. Jung, Y. Kamyshkov, B. Kerbikov, B. Z. Kopeliovich, V. B. Kopeliovich, W. Korsch, T. Lachenmaier, P. Langacker, C-Y. Liu, W. J. Marciano, M. Mocko, R. N. Mohapatra, N. Mokhov, G. Muhrer, P. Mumm, P. Nath, Y. Obayashi, L. Okun, J. C. Pati, R. W. Pattie Jr., D. G. Phillips II, C. Quigg, J. L. Raaf, S. Raby, E. Ramberg, A. Ray, A. Roy, A. Ruggles, U. Sarkar, A. Saunders, A. Serebrov, Q. Shafi, H. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, R. Shrock, A. K. Sikdar, W. M. Snow, A. Soha, S. Spanier, G. C. Stavenga, S. Striganov, R. Svoboda, Z. Tang, Z. Tavartkiladze, L. Townsend, S. Tulin, A. Vainshtein, R. Van Kooten, C. E. M. Wagner, Z. Wang, B. Wehring, R. J. Wilson, M. Wise, M. Yokoyama, A. R. Young

Published 2013-11-21Version 1

This report, prepared for the Community Planning Study - Snowmass 2013 - summarizes the theoretical motivations and the experimental efforts to search for baryon number violation, focussing on nucleon decay and neutron-antineutron oscillations. Present and future nucleon decay search experiments using large underground detectors, as well as planned neutron-antineutron oscillation search experiments with free neutron beams are highlighted.