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.
@article{arxiv.1510.01569,
title = {A new high sensitivity search for neutron-antineutron oscillations at the ESS},
author = {David Milstead},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01569},
year = {2015}
}
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Paper prepared for proceedings of EPS HEP 2015, July 2015, Vienna, Austria