17–21 Jun 2024
Europe/Berlin timezone

Indirect constraints on third generation baryon number violation

18 Jun 2024, 17:30
20m

Speaker

Gael Finauri (TUM)

Description

Given the flavour anomalies, one might speculate that baryon number violation involving third family quarks could happen at a much lower scale than the GUT scale. In this talk I will describe how to constrain baryon number violating operators involving a bottom quark from proton lifetime bounds. As a result one can estimate the maximum branching fraction expected in baryon number violating $B$ decays, turning out to be far from current sensitivities at $B$-factories. This in fact discourage direct experimental searches of baryon number violation in $B$ decays.

Primary authors

Alexey Petrov (University of South Carolina) Gael Finauri (TUM) Martin Beneke (TUM)

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