The NNbar Experiment at the European Spallation Source

Abstract

The observation of neutron to antineutron oscillation would be the first experimental evidence to show that baryon number is not a conserved quantity. It also provides an answer to the hypothesized post-sphaleron baryogenesis mechanism shortly after the Big Bang. The free oscillation time {τ_{n\rightarrow\bar{n}} has a lower limit at 8.7 x 10^7 seconds determined at ILL in 1994. Current beyond Standard Model theories of this oscillation time estimate the value to be on the order of 10^{10} seconds. A new experiment is proposed at the European Spallation Source that has 1000 times the sensitivity of the previous experiment, and would confirm the viability of those beyond Standard Model theories.

arXiv commentPresented at the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 20-24, 2016

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