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 …

The neutron and its role in cosmology and particle physics

D Dubbers, MG Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Experiments with cold and ultracold neutrons have reached a level of precision such that
problems far beyond the scale of the present standard model of particle physics become …

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 …

Neutron stars with baryon number violation, probing dark sectors

JM Berryman, S Gardner, M Zakeri - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
The neutron lifetime anomaly has been used to motivate the introduction of new physics with
hidden-sector particles coupled to baryon number, and on which neutron stars provide …

Neutron star internal heating constraints on mirror matter

D McKeen, M Pospelov, N Raj - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Mirror sectors have been proposed to address the problems of dark matter, baryogenesis,
and the neutron lifetime anomaly. In this work we study a new, powerful probe of mirror …

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 …