19–21 May 2025
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Proton decay into light new particles

20 May 2025, 16:30
15m
David Lawrence Hall 205, University of Pittsburgh

David Lawrence Hall 205, University of Pittsburgh

Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics Flavor

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Julian Heeck

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Light new particles could be emitted in nucleon decays if they have baryon-number-violating couplings. Even though they usually leave the detector as missing energy, interesting signatures can arise in such decays in underground detectors such as Super-Kamiokande and DUNE. In the particularly simple case of light sterile neutrinos, nucleon decays can even be an efficient production mechanism that leads to characteristic displaced decay signatures.

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