B-L

In high energy physics, B-L (pronounced bee minus ell) is the baryon number minus the lepton number. This is the charge of a global/gauge U(1) symmetry in some some GUT models, called U(1)B-L. Unlike baryon number alone or lepton number alone, this hypothetical symmetry is not broken by chiral anomalies or gravitational anomalies, which is why this symmetry is often invoked.

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See also: B-L, Baryon number, Chiral anomaly, GUT, Gauge symmetry, Gravitational anomaly, High energy physics, Lepton number, Physics