Charged Lepton Spectrum Approximation in a Three Body Nucleon Decay

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

Only phase space is typically used to obtain final state particle spectra in rare decay searches, which is a crude approximation in the case of three body processes. We will demonstrate how both dynamics and phase space can be approximately accounted for, in processes such as nucleon decays p→e+νˉνp \rightarrow e^+ \barν ν or p→μ+νˉνp \rightarrow μ^+ \barν ν originating from Grand Unification models, using general effective Fermi theory formalism of electroweak muon decay μ→e+νˉνμ\rightarrow e^+ \barν ν. This approach allows for a more precise and only weakly model dependent approximation of final particle spectra for these and similar decays, which may improve rare process searches in current and near-future experiments.

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