Unparticle Induced Baryon Number Violating Nucleon Decays
Abstract
We study baryon number violating nucleon decays induced by unparticle interactions with the standard model particles. We find that the lowest dimension operators which cause nucleon decays can arise at dimension 6 + (ds-3/2) with the unparticles being a spinor of dimension ds=d +1/2. For scalar and vector unparticles of dimension d, the lowest order operatoers arise at 6+d and 7+d dimensions,respectively. Comparing the spinor unparticle induced n Os and experimental bound on invisible decay of a neutron from KamLAND, we find that the scale for unparticle physics is required to be larger than 1010 GeV for d < 2 if the couplings are set to be of order one. For scalar and vector unparticles, the dominant baryon number violating decay modes are n + O (Oμ) and p e+ + O (Oμ). The same experimental bound puts the scales for scalar and vector unparticle to be larger than 107 and 105 GeV for d <2 with couplings set to be of order one. Data on, p e+ invisible, puts similar constraints on unparticle interactions.