Published April 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

A simple testable model of baryon number violation: Baryogenesis, dark matter, neutron–antineutron oscillation and collider signals

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (United States)

Description

We study a simple TeV-scale model of baryon number violation which explains the observed proximity of the dark matter and baryon abundances. The model has constraints arising from both low and high-energy processes, and in particular, predicts a sizable rate for the neutron–antineutron (nn¯) oscillation at low energy and the monojet signal at the LHC. We find an interesting complementarity among the constraints arising from the observed baryon asymmetry, ratio of dark matter and baryon abundances, nn¯ oscillation lifetime and the LHC monojet signal. There are regions in the parameter space where the nn¯ oscillation lifetime is found to be more constraining than the LHC constraints, which illustrates the importance of the next-generation nn¯ oscillation experiments.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.019

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.019;
arXiv
arXiv:1712.02713v2;
PII
S0370269318301217;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
779
Journal Page Range
p. 262-268
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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