Baryon and Lepton Number as Local Gauge Symmetries

Details Baryon and Lepton Number as Local Gauge Symmetries Baryon and Lepton Number as Local Gauge Symmetries

2010-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/1002.1754v4

Phys.Rev.D82:011901,2010

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, some corrections in sec. III.B., published as Rapid Communication in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.011901

We investigate a simple theory where Baryon number (B) and Lepton number (L) are local gauge symmetries. In this theory B and L are on the same footing and the anomalies are cancelled by adding a single new fermionic generation. There is an interesting realization of the seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses. Furthermore, there is a natural suppression of flavour violation in the quark and leptonic sectors since the gauge symmetries and particle content forbid tree level flavor changing neutral currents involving the quarks or charged leptons. Also one finds that the stability of a dark matter candidate is an automatic consequence of the gauge symmetry. Some constraints and signals at the Large Hadron Collider are briefly discussed.

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