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 1fb-1 at 7 TeV, and further constrained with 30(100)fb-1 at 7 (14) TeV. © 2012 American Physical Society.
Dong, Z., Durieux, G., Gérard, J., Han, T., Maltoni, F. (2012). Baryon number violation at the LHC: The top option. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY, 85(1), 1-5 [10.1103/PhysRevD.85.016006].
Baryon number violation at the LHC: The top option
Maltoni, Fabio
2012
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 1fb-1 at 7 TeV, and further constrained with 30(100)fb-1 at 7 (14) TeV. © 2012 American Physical Society.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
