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Cosmic ray air showers from sphalerons

Brooijmans, Gustaaf; Schichtel, Peter; Spannowsky, Michael

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Gustaaf Brooijmans

Peter Schichtel



Abstract

The discovery of the Higgs boson marks a key ingredient to establish the electroweak structure of the Standard Model. Its non-abelian gauge structure gives rise to, yet unobserved, non-perturbative baryon and lepton number violating processes. We propose to use cosmic ray air showers, as measured, for example, at the Pierre Auger Observatory, to set a limit on the hadronic production cross section of sphalerons. We identify several observables to discriminate between sphaleron and QCD induced air showers.

Citation

Brooijmans, G., Schichtel, P., & Spannowsky, M. (2016). Cosmic ray air showers from sphalerons. Physics Letters B, 761, 213-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.030

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 15, 2016
Online Publication Date Aug 18, 2016
Publication Date Oct 10, 2016
Deposit Date Nov 10, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physics Letters B
Print ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 761
Pages 213-218
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.030

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