Speaker
Diana Sokhashvili
Description
Baryon number violation is our most sensitive probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, conveniently encoded in higher-dimensional effective operators. Operators involving derivatives are usually ignored in phenomenological analyses since they are generically suppressed compared to non-derivative operators. We will study exceptions to this statement and explore scenarios in which derivative operators are important. Along the way, we also show how derivative operators arise in UV-complete models.