Speaker
Mr
Joshua Barrow
(The University of Tennessee)
Description
Babu et al. have recently proposed a model of post-sphaleron baryogenesis following the electroweak phase transition. Their theory naturally gives rise to a plausible baryon abundance and a ΔB=2 six-quark operator which allows for the generation of nbar from n.
Using n bound in Ar, DUNE currently plans to include n-nbar events in their nucleon decay searches. Using GENIE, modeling is underway on intranuclear interactions mimicking n-nbar annihilation in Ar nuclei. Eliminating atmospheric ν background from such events will be a challenge for liquid Ar TPCs at DUNE, so simulation work must be considered for ν interactions in Ar nuclei, which produce similar signals to n-nbar annihilation. Key to understanding possible experimental signals will be the integration of these two for a proper robust analysis, which will determine the viability of any detection of this process above background levels.
Primary author
Mr
Joshua Barrow
(The University of Tennessee)
Co-authors
Dr
Ben Rybolt
(University of Tennessee)
Prof.
Yuri Kamyshkov
(University of Tennessee)