Speaker
Julian Heeck
Description
We consider light new particles $\chi$ and $\phi$ that carry baryon and lepton numbers. If these particles are lighter than nucleons they lead to exotic decays such as $p\to \pi^+ \chi$ and $p\to e^+\phi$, not yet fully constrained by dedicated searches. For $\chi$ and $\phi$ masses in the GeV range, proton decays are kinematically forbidden but other decays of the forms baryon\,$\to$\,meson$+\chi$, meson\,$\to$\,baryon$+\bar\chi$, and baryon\,$\to$\,anti-lepton$+\phi$ involving heavy initial hadrons are allowed. This opens up the possibility to search for apparent baryon number violation not just in underground experiments such as Super-Kamiokande and DUNE but also in decays of heavy hadrons in charm and $B$ factories.
