{
  "id": "2405.18478",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-05-28T18:00:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-05-28T18:00:03.000Z",
  "title": "Baryon number violation involving tauons",
  "authors": [
    "Julian Heeck",
    "Dima Watkins"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "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 tauons, 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 $p\\to \\pi^+\\nu$, other operators induce many-body decays such as $p \\to \\eta \\pi^{+} \\bar\\nu_\\tau$ and $n\\to K^+ \\pi^-\\nu_\\tau$ that have never been searched for.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-05-28T18:00:03.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "baryon number violation",
      "operators induce many-body decays",
      "clean nucleon decay channels",
      "angular momentum conservation",
      "tau neutrinos"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}