A new high sensitivity search for neutron-antineutron oscillations at the ESS
Abstract
A sensitive search for neutron-antineutron oscillations can provide a unique probe of some of the central questions in particle physics and cosmology: the energy scale and mechanism for baryon number violation, the origin of the baryon-antibaryon asymmetry of the universe, and the mechanism for neutrino mass generation. A remarkable opportunity has emerged to search for such oscillations with the construction of the European Spallation Source (ESS). A collaboration has been formed which has proposed a search at the ESS, which would provide a sensitivity to the oscillation probability which is three orders of magnitude greater than that achieved at an ILL experiment at which the present best limit on free neutron-antineutron oscillations was obtained.
- Publication:
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European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2015)
- Pub Date:
- 2015
- DOI:
- 10.22323/1.234.0603
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1510.01569
- Bibcode:
- 2015ehep.confE.603M
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Paper prepared for proceedings of EPS HEP 2015, July 2015, Vienna, Austria