Baryon number violation at the LHC: the top option

Abstract

Subject to strong experimental constraints at low energies, baryon number violation is nonetheless well motivated from a theoretical point of view. We examine the possibility of observing baryon-number-violating top-quark production or decay at hadron colliders. We adopt a model independent effective approach and focus on operators with minimal mass-dimension. Corresponding effective coefficients could be directly probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) already with an integrated luminosity of 1 inverse femtobarn at 7 TeV, and further constrained with 30 (100) inverse femtobarns at 7 (14) TeV.

5 pages, 3 figures, v2 matches the published version, with an extra sign corrected on the first line of eq.(6)

References in corpus (3)

• MadGraph 5 : Going Beyond
• FeynRules - Feynman rules made easy
• Monotops at the LHC

Cited by in corpus (20)

• Physics of leptoquarks in precision experiments and at particle colliders
• A global approach to top-quark flavor-changing interactions
• Heavy and light scalar leptoquarks in proton decay
• Effective field theory approach to top-quark decay at next-to-leading order in QCD
• Search for monotop signatures in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
• Monotop phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider
• Revisiting monotop production at the LHC
• Leptonic Monotops at LHC
• Search for the signal of monotop production at the early LHC
• Scalar Leptoquarks, Baryon Number Violation and Pati-Salam Symmetry
• Three-generation baryon and lepton number violation at the LHC
• Higgs production as a probe of anomalous top couplings
• Top-quark physics at the Large Hadron Collider
• Search for baryon number violation in top-quark decays
• Primary Observables for Top Quark Collider Signals
• Baryon number violation involving tau leptons
• Same-sign top pair plus $W$ production in flavor changing vector and scalar models
• Search for baryon number violation in top quark production and decay using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
• Supersymmetry - When Theory Inspires Experimental Searches
• Probing $\Delta L=2$ lepton number violating SMEFT operators at the same-sign muon collider