Particle physics at the european spallation source

H Abele, A Alekou, A Algora, K Andersen, S Baeßler… - Physics reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Presently under construction in Lund, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS) will
be the world's brightest neutron source. As such, it has the potential for a particle physics …

Mirror dark matter: Cosmology, galaxy structure and direct detection

R Foot - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2014 - World Scientific
A simple way to accommodate dark matter is to postulate the existence of a hidden sector.
That is, a set of new particles and forces interacting with the known particles predominantly …

US cosmic visions: new ideas in dark matter 2017: community report

M Battaglieri, A Belloni, A Chou, P Cushman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
arXiv:1707.04591v1 [hep-ph] 14 Jul 2017 Page 1 US Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark
Matter 2017 : Community Report Marco Battaglieri (SAC co-chair),1 Alberto Belloni (Coordinator),2 …

Neutron-antineutron oscillations: Theoretical status and experimental prospects

DG Phillips II, WM Snow, K Babu, S Banerjee… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The observation of neutrons turning into antineutrons would constitute a discovery of
fundamental importance for particle physics and cosmology. Observing the n–n ̄ transition …

New high-sensitivity searches for neutrons converting into antineutrons and/or sterile neutrons at the HIBEAM/NNBAR experiment at the European Spallation Source

A Addazi, K Anderson, S Ansell, KS Babu… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The violation of baryon number, $\mathcal {B} $, is an essential ingredient for the
preferential creation of matter over antimatter needed to account for the observed baryon …

Neutron lifetime puzzle and neutron–mirror neutron oscillation

Z Berezhiani - The European Physical Journal C, 2019 - Springer
Standard Model, with its present precision, predicts the neutron β β-decay time τ _ SM=
878.7 ± 0.6 τ SM= 878.7±0.6 s which is perfectly compatible with the neutron lifetime …

Simplified models with baryon number violation but no proton decay

JM Arnold, B Fornal, MB Wise - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
We enumerate the simplest models that have baryon number violation at the classical level
but do not give rise to proton decay. These models have scalar fields in two representations …

Experimental search for neutron to mirror neutron oscillations as an explanation of the neutron lifetime anomaly

LJ Broussard, JL Barrow, L DeBeer-Schmitt, T Dennis… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
An unexplained> 4 σ discrepancy persists between “beam” and “bottle” measurements of
the neutron lifetime. A new model proposed that conversions of neutrons n into mirror …

[HTML][HTML] A search for neutron to mirror-neutron oscillations using the nEDM apparatus at PSI

C Abel, NJ Ayres, G Ban, G Bison, K Bodek, V Bondar… - Physics Letters B, 2021 - Elsevier
It has been proposed that there could be a mirror copy of the standard model particles,
restoring the parity symmetry in the weak interaction on the global level. Oscillations …

[HTML][HTML] Neutron-mirror neutron mixing and neutron stars

Z Berezhiani, R Biondi, M Mannarelli… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The oscillation of neutron n into mirror neutron\(n'\), its mass degenerate partner from dark
mirror sector, can gradually transform the neutron stars into the mixed stars consisting in part …