Chiral Perturbation Theory for Neutron-antineutron Oscillations

Abstract

We construct the Chiral Perturbation Theory operators for neutron-antineutron oscillations and use these to estimate chiral and finite volume corrections at one-loop order.

12 pages, misprints corrected and one reference added

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