Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We study the generalized symmetries associated with Standard Model flavor and their fate in the presence of magnetic monopoles. This illuminates a striking phenomenological consequence: even when baryon and lepton number are classically conserved, the electroweak anomaly induces $ΔB = ΔL \in 3 \mathbb{Z}$ in monopole-fermion scattering for any monopole activating the anomaly. We demonstrate this mechanism in Pati-Salam theory and trinification.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Craig, Nathaniel, Sehayek, Dan
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7220906540