====== RF4: Baryon and Lepton Number Violating Processes ====== co-Conveners: [[http://fileviez.com|Pavel Fileviez Perez]] (Case Western Reserve Univ.), [[https://www.physics.umass.edu/people/andrea-pocar|Andrea Pocar]] (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) ===== Description===== This Topical Group will address the following topics: - Theories for baryon and lepton number violation: //P. Fileviez Perez (CWRU), M.B. Wise (Caltech)// - Neutrinoless double beta decays: //V. Cirigliano (LANL), A. Pocar (UMass)// - Baryon and Lepton number violation at colliders: //R. Ruiz (Cracow, INP), E. Thomson (UPenn)// - Proton decay: // E. Kearns (Boston Univ.), S. Raby (Ohio State Univ.)// - n-nbar oscillations: //K. Babu (OSU), L. Broussard (ORNL)// - More exotic L and B violating processes: //S. Gardner(Univ. of Kentucky), J. Heeck (Univ. of Virginia)// - Connections to Cosmology: //A. Long (Rice Univ.), C. Wagner (Univ. of Chicago/ANL)// **- RF4 Final Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.00010.pdf ** **Activities: ** **BLV circa 2020, July 6-8, 2020. ** Virtual Workshop hosted by the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. For details see: https://artsci.case.edu/blv2020/ For the talks see: July 6, 2020: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/44268/ July 7, 2020: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/44269/ July 8, 2020: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/44270/ **ACFI Workshop**, **August 3, 2020**, University of Massachusetts Amherst, ****Theoretical Innovations for Future Experiments Regarding Baryon Number Violation by Two Units **********Bold Text** https://indico.fnal.gov/event/44472/ **ACFI/Snowmass workshop on “Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay Beyond Tonne-Scale”** December 9-11, 2020 (noon-4 pm ET each day) https://indico.fnal.gov/event/46424/ ===== Submitted LOI ===== Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topic. First index before "/" corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission. {{url>https://www.snowmass21.org/docs/files/list.php?frontier=RF4 noborder 95%,600px}}