The Decomposition of Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Operators

Abstract

We study the systematic decomposition of the dimension nine neutron-antineutron oscillation operators at tree and one-loop levels. We discuss the topologies' generation and the assignment of the chiral quarks. The completed lists of the decompositions are provided. We furthermore show an example that the neutron-antineutron oscillation occurs at one-loop level, with the tiny neutrino mass being generated via the scotogenic model and proton decay being evaded.

Comments: 29 pages, 6 figures, 19 tables. Explanations and references added, typos fixed