Parity of the neutron consistent with neutron-antineutron oscillations
Abstract
In the analysis of neutron-antineutron oscillations, it has been recently argued in the literature that the use of the parity which is consistent with the Majorana condition is mandatory and that the ordinary parity transformation of the neutron field has a difficulty. We show that a careful treatment of the ordinary parity transformation of the neutron works in the analysis of neutron-antineutron oscillations. Technically, the CP symmetry in the mass diagonalization procedure is important and the two parity transformations, parity and parity, are compensated for by the Pauli-G\"ursey transformation. Our analysis shows that either choice of the parity gives the correct results of neutron-antineutron oscillations if carefully treated.
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@article{arxiv.2009.12843,
title = {Parity of the neutron consistent with neutron-antineutron oscillations},
author = {Kazuo Fujikawa and Anca Tureanu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12843},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
19 pages. Some modifications in Appendix B were made. This version is going to be published in Phys. Rev. D