Speaker
Jiawei (Vivian) Gao
(UCSB)
Description
Magnetic monopoles are well known to catalyze baryon number violating processes in grand unified theories through the Callan–Rubakov effect. More generally, however, monopoles participating in the electroweak anomaly can catalyze processes with ΔB=ΔL=3. In this talk, I will present a first phenomenological exploration of such monopole-induced processes in different physical settings. I will highlight the experimental signatures that arise from this mechanism and discuss new experimental detection strategies motivated by these phenomena.
Authors
Jiawei (Vivian) Gao
(UCSB)
Nathaniel Craig