Dimension-5 baryon-number violation in low-scale Pati-Salam

Abstract

The gauge bosons of Pati-Salam do not mediate proton decay at the renormalisable level, and for this reason it is possible to construct scenarios in which $SU(4)\otimes SU(2{)}_R$ is broken at relatively low scales. In this Letter we show that such low-scale models generate dimension-5 operators that can give rise to nucleon decays at unacceptably large rates, even if the operators are suppressed by the Planck scale. We find an interesting complementarity between the nucleon-decay limits and the usual meson-decay constraints. Furthermore, we argue that these operators are generically present when the model is embedded into $SO(10)$, lowering the suppression scale. Under reasonable assumptions, the lower limit on the breaking scale can be constrained to be as high as $\mathcal{O}(10^8)$ GeV.

9 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; version accepted for publication in PRD

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