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Nucleon Decay into a Dark Sector

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 114, Issue 5, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.051802

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-98CH10886]

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A sub-GeV dark sector fermion X can have baryon-number-violating interactions induced by high-scale physics, leading to nucleon decay into X + meson and neutron -> X + photon. Such processes can mimic standard search modes containing a neutrino, but have different kinematics and may have escaped detection. If a dark force mediated by a light vector Z(d) acts on X, depending on parameters, neutron -> X + Z(d) can be important. In typical scenarios, Z(d) decays into l(+)l(-) where l = e, mu, with an order unity branching fraction. Nucleon decay searches can potentially uncover new dark states that are otherwise inaccessible, due to their negligible coupling to ordinary matter or cosmological abundance.

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