hide
Free keywords:
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, hep-ph,High Energy Physics - Experiment, hep-ex
Abstract:
We investigate the possibility to test the simplest theory for spontaneous
baryon number violation at the Large Hadron Collider. In this context the
baryon number is a local gauge symmetry spontaneously broken at the low scale
through the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. This theory predicts the existence
of a leptophobic neutral gauge boson and a fermionic dark matter candidate with
baryon number. We study the gauge boson and Higgs decays, and explore the
connection between collider signatures and constraints coming from dark matter
experiments. We point out an upper bound on the symmetry breaking scale using
the relic density constraints which tells us that this model can be tested or
ruled out at current or future collider experiments.
