Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-08-10
Phys.Rev.D72:095003,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
36 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.095003
There exist a number of models in the literature in which the weak interactions are derived from a chiral gauge theory based on a larger group than SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y. Such theories can be constructed so as to be anomaly-free and consistent with precision electroweak measurements, and may be interpreted as a deconstruction of an extra dimension. They also provide interesting insights into the issues of flavor and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking, and can help to raise the mass of the Higgs boson in supersymmetric theories. In this work we show that these theories can also give rise to baryon and lepton number violating processes, such as nucleon decay and spectacular multijet events at colliders, via the instanton transitions associated with the extended gauge group. For a particular model based on SU(2)_1 x SU(2)_2, we find that the $B+L$ violating scattering cross sections are too small to be observed at the LHC, but that the lower limit on the lifetime of the proton implies an upper bound on the gauge couplings.
Morrissey David E.
Tait Tim M. P.
Wagner Carlos E. M.
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