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Parity of the neutron consistent with neutron-antineutron oscillations

Authors :
Kazuo Fujikawa
Anca Tureanu
Department of Physics
Source :
Physical Review
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

In the analysis of neutron-antineutron oscillations, it has been recently argued in the literature that the use of the $i\gamma^{0}$ parity $n^{p}(t,-\vec{x})=i\gamma^{0}n(t,-\vec{x})$ which is consistent with the Majorana condition is mandatory and that the ordinary parity transformation of the neutron field $n^{p}(t,-\vec{x}) = \gamma^{0}n(t,-\vec{x})$ 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, $i\gamma^{0}$ parity and $\gamma^{0}$ 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.<br />Comment: 19 pages. Some modifications in Appendix B were made. This version is going to be published in Phys. Rev. D

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review
Accession number :
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