Nucleon-decay-like signatures of hylogenesis

作者：Demidov S V; Gorbunov D S

来源：PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2016, 93(3): 035009.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevD.93.035009

We consider nucleon-decay-like signatures of hylogenesis, a variant of the antibaryonic dark matter model. For the interaction between visible and dark matter sectors through the neutron portal, we calculate the rates of dark matter scatterings off a neutron which mimic neutron-decay processes n ->nu gamma and n -> nu e(+)e(-) with richer kinematics. We obtain bounds on the model parameters from nonobservation of the neutron decays by applying the kinematical cuts adopted in the experimental analyses. The bounds are generally (much) weaker than those coming from the recently performed study of events with a single jet of high transverse momentum and missing energy observed at the LHC. Then we suggest several new nucleon-decay-like processes with two mesons in the final state and estimate (accounting for the LHC constraints) the lower limits on the nucleon lifetime with respect to these channels. The obtained values appear to be promising for probing the antibaryonic dark matter at future underground experiments like HyperK and DUNE.

• 出版日期2016-2-9