Baryon number violation at the LHC: the top option

Understand

Subject to strong experimental constraints at low energies, baryon number violation is nonetheless well motivated from a theoretical point of view.

• We examine the possibility of observing baryon-number-violating top-quark production or decay at hadron colliders.
• We adopt a model independent effective approach and focus on operators with minimal mass-dimension.
• Corresponding effective coefficients could be directly probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) already with an integrated luminosity of 1 inverse femtobarn at 7 TeV, and further constrained with 30 (100) inverse femtobarns at 7 (14) TeV.