Direct generation of a Majorana mass for the neutron from exotic instantons

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.04.018MaRDI QIDQ526206zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Addazi

Publication date 10 May 2017

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06351

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We discuss a new mechanism in which non-perturbative quantum gravity effects directly generate a Majorana mass for the neutron. In particular, in string theory, exotic instantons can generate an effective six quark operator by calculable mixed disk amplitudes. In a low string scale scenario, with $M_{S}simeq10div10^5,mTeV$, a neutron-antineutron oscillation can be reached in the next generation of experiments. we argue that protons and neutralinos are not destabilized and that dangerous FCNCs are not generated. We show an example of quiver theories, locally free by tadpoles and anomalies, reproducing MSSM plus a Majorana neutron and a Majorana neutrino. These models naturally provide a viable baryogenesis mechanism by resonant RH neutrino decays, as well as a stable WIMP-like dark matter. We also discuss how LHC data will provide useful inputs for our model, in the immediate future, testing several different regions of the parameter space. Such a mechanism represents a simple and calculable counter-example to the Wilsonian UV completion of effective non-renormalizable operators.

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