Astrophysical consequences of barytinos

Abstract

Some astrophysical consequences of the newly introduced barytino (massless fermions having baryon number, analogous to the massless neutrino having lepton number) are considered. It is pointed out that the existence of such particles would have interesting implications for understanding astrophysical enigmas like the violation of baryon number conservation in gravitational collapse into black holes and the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe.