Abstract
Baryon number conservation is not guaranteed by any fundamental symmetry within the standard model, and therefore has been a subject of experimental and theoretical scrutiny for decades. So far, no evidence for baryon number violation has been observed. Large underground detectors have long been used for both neutrino detection and searches for baryon number violating processes. The next generation of large neutrino detectors will seek to improve upon the limits set by past and current experiments and will cover a range of lifetimes predicted by several Grand Unified Theories. In this White Paper, we summarize theoretical motivations and experimental aspects of searches for baryon number violation in neutrino experiments.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 033001 |
Journal | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2024 |
Funding
We thank Borut Bajc, Ilja Doršner, Natsumi Nagata, Jogesh Pati, Stuart Raby, Zurab Tavartkiladze, and Cem Salih Un for useful comments on the manuscript. The work of PSBD is supported in part by the US Department of Energy under grant No. DE-SC0017987. This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958. S Syritsyn is supported by the National Science Foundation under CAREER Award PHY-1847893. VT is supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan. The work of RNM is supported by the US National Science Foundation grant no. PHY-1914631. The work of MM is supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR) through contract number 20-17490S and from the Charles University Research Center UNCE/SCI/013. The work of RS is supported in part by NSF Grant NSF-PHY-22-10533.
Keywords
- Proton decay
- baryon number violation
- neutrino experiments
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics