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$B+L$ violation at colliders and new physics

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Chiral electroweak anomalies predict fermion interactions that violate baryon ($B$) and lepton number ($L$), and can be dressed with large numbers of Higgs and gauge bosons. The estimation of the total $B+L$ violating rate from an initial two-particle state --potentially observable at colliders-- has been the subject of an intense discussion, mainly centered on the resummation of boson emission, which is believed to contribute to the cross-section with an exponential function of the energy, yet with an exponent (the "holy-grail" function) which is not fully known in the energy range of interest. In this article we focus instead on the effect of fermions beyond the Standard-Model (SM) in the polynomial contributions to the rate. It is shown that $B+L$ processes involving the new fermions have a polynomial contribution that can be several orders of magnitude greater than in the SM, for high centre-of-mass energies and light enough masses. We also present calculations that hint at a simple dependence of the holy grail function on the heavy fermion masses. Thus, if anomalous $B+L$ violating interactions are ever detected at high-energy colliders, they could be associated with new physics.

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Small-instanton effects in an atlas of KSVZ axion models

hep-ph · 2026-08-09 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Small-instanton contributions can dominate the QCD axion potential in KSVZ models with many vector-like quarks, raising m_a to tens of MeV and shifting the m_a-g_aγγ relation.

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  • Small-instanton effects in an atlas of KSVZ axion models hep-ph · 2026-08-09 · conditional · none · ref 44 · internal anchor

    Small-instanton contributions can dominate the QCD axion potential in KSVZ models with many vector-like quarks, raising m_a to tens of MeV and shifting the m_a-g_aγγ relation.