Journal of High Energy Physics (Mar 2023)

The decomposition of neutron-antineutron oscillation operators

  • Shao-Long Chen,
  • Yu-Qi Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)065
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 3
pp. 1 – 30

Abstract

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Abstract We study the systematic decomposition of the dimension nine neutron-antineutron oscillation operators at tree and one-loop levels. We discuss the topologies’ generation and the assignment of the chiral quarks. The completed lists of the decompositions are provided. We furthermore show an example that the neutron-antineutron oscillation occurs at one-loop level, with the tiny neutrino mass being generated via the scotogenic model and proton decay being evaded.

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