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Effects of Neutron-Antineutron Transitions in Neutron Stars

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-06 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We analyze effects of neutron-antineutron transitions in neutron stars, specifically on (i) cooling, (ii) rotation rate, and (iii) for binary pulsars, the increase in the orbital period. We show that these effects are negligibly small.

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@article{arxiv.2408.14555,
  title  = {Effects of Neutron-Antineutron Transitions in Neutron Stars},
  author = {Itzhak Goldman and Rabindra N. Mohapatra and Shmuel Nussinov and Robert Shrock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.14555},
  year   = {2025}
}

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6 pages, latex