A simple model of gauged lepton and baryon charges

TL;DR

This paper proposes a simplified model extending the Standard Model with gauged lepton and baryon charges, introducing leptoquarks with exotic charges, and explores implications for neutrino masses, baryogenesis, and collider phenomenology.

Contribution

It introduces a minimal fermionic content model with gauged lepton and baryon charges using leptoquarks, ensuring anomaly cancellation and natural neutrino mass generation.

Findings

Right-handed neutrinos naturally included

Number of fermion families equals color number

Potential collider signatures and flavor constraints

Abstract

We argue that simpler fermionic contents, responsible for the extension of the standard model with gauged lepton and baryon charges, can be constructed by assuming existence of so-called leptoquarks (j,k) with exotic electric charges q_j=1/2, q_k=-1/2. Some new features in our model are that (i) as the natural consequences of anomaly cancelation the right-handed neutrinos exist, and the number of the observed fermion families is equal to the number of the fundamental colors; (ii) although the lepton and baryon charges are conserved, the neutrinos can obtain small masses through the type I seesaw mechanism in similarity to the standard context, and the baryogenesis can be generated in several cases. They all are natural results due to the spontaneous breaking of these charges. Some constraints on the new physics via flavor changing and related phenomenologies such as the stable scalar with anomalous electric charge and interested processes at colliders are also discussed.