@Article{Helo_etal2018,
author="Helo, J. C.
and Hirsch, M.
and Ota, T.",
title="Proton decay and light sterile neutrinos",
journal="Journal of High Energy Physics",
year="2018",
publisher="Springer",
volume="06",
number="6",
pages="047--15pp",
optkeywords="Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics",
abstract="Within the standard model, non-renormalizable operators at dimension six (d = 6) violate baryon and lepton number by one unit and thus lead to proton decay. Here, we point out that the proton decay mode with a charged pion and missing energy can be a characteristic signature of d = 6 operators containing a light sterile neutrino, if it is not accompanied by the standard pi(0)e(+) final state. We discuss this effect first at the level of effective operators and then provide a concrete model with new physics at the TeV scale, in which the lightness of the active neutrinos and the stability of the proton are related.",
optnote="WOS:000435023100004",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3610), last updated on Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:08:36 +0000",
issn="1029-8479",
doi="10.1007/JHEP06(2018)047",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00035",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2018)047",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1803.00035",
language="English"
}