Processes That Break Baryon Number by Two Units and the Majorana Nature of the Neutrino

Authors

Susan Gardner, University of KentuckyFollow
Xinshuai Yan, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

We employ the simplest possible models of scalar-fermion interactions that are consistent with the gauge symmetries of the Standard Model and permit no proton decay to analyze the connections possible among processes that break baryon number by two units.

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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-10-2019

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Physics Letters B, v. 790, p. 421-426.

© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.01.054

Funding Information

Funded by SCOAP³.

We acknowledge partial support from the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-FG02-96ER40989.

Repository Citation

Gardner, Susan and Yan, Xinshuai, "Processes That Break Baryon Number by Two Units and the Majorana Nature of the Neutrino" (2019). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 656.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/656