Neutron to Antineutron
Transition
(alternative search for
baryon instability in a reactor-based experiment)
this page is located at http://web.utk.edu/~kamyshko/new_searches.html
Recent
talks (2007):
"Neutron-Anti-Neutron
Oscillation as a Probe of B-L Symmetry"
Rabindra N. Mohapatra, talk at the Fundamental Neutron Physics Workshop,
INT, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2007
"Neutron-Antineutron
Oscillations: Can the Current Experimental Limits be Improved?"
W. Mike Snow, talk at the Fundamental Neutron Physics Workshop,
INT, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2007
"Search
for B-L Violation"
Yuri Kamyshkov, talk at the Fundamental Neutron Physics Workshop,
INT, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2007
"Search
for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at Super Kamiokande I"
Brandon Hartfiel, talk at the Fundamental Neutron Physics Workshop,
INT, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2007
"Possible
Experiments to Search for the Neutron-Mirror Neutron Oscillations"
Yuri. Pokotilovski, talk at the Fundamental Neutron Physics Workshop,
INT, University of Washington, Seattle, April 2007
"Baryogenesis
and Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations"
Federico Urban, Workshop "Ultra Cold and Cold Neutron Physics and
Sources"
Saint-Petersburg - Moscow, Russia, 1-7 July, 2007
"Search
for B-L Violation"
"Neutron-Antineutron
Transitions at DUSEL"
"Neutron
Disappearance in KamLAND"
Yuri Kamyshkov, Workshop "Ultra Cold and Cold Neutron Physics and
Sources"
Saint-Petersburg - Moscow, Russia, 1-7 July, 2007
"Mirror world:
visible/dark matter genesis"
Federico Urban for Zurab Berezhiani,
Workshop "Ultra Cold and Cold Neutron Physics and Sources"
Saint-Petersburg - Moscow, Russia, 1-7 July, 2007
Theory Papers,
Physics and Motivation:
"A Black Hole Conjecture
and Rare Decays in Theories with Low Scale Gravity"
(SPIRES link), by C. Bambi, A. D. Dolgov, K. Freese, June 2006,
arXive:
hep-ph/0606321
"Post-Sphaleron
Baryogenesis"
(SPIRES link), by K.S. Babu, R.N. Mohapatra, and S. Nasri,
PRL, 97 131301 (2006), arXiv:
hep-ph/0606144
"Baryogenesis by R-parity
violating top quark decays and neutron-antineutron oscillations"
(SPIRES link), by A.D. Dolgov and F.R. Urban, May 2006,
arXive:
hep-ph/0605263; Nucl.Phys. B752 (2006) 297-315
"Observable Neutron
Antineutron Oscillation in High Scale Seesaw Models" (SPIRES link)
by Bhaskar Dutta, Yukihiro Mimura, R. N. Mohapatra, UMD-PP-05-052;
MIFP-05-30,
Oct 2005, arXive: hep-ph/0510291, published in PRL 96, 061801 (2006)
"Observable
Neutron Antineutron Oscillations in Seesaw Models of
Neutrino Mass" (SPIRES link)
by K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State U.) and R.N. Mohapatra (Maryland U.), Aug
2001,
arXive: hep-ph/0108089; Published in Phys.Lett.B518:269-275,2001
"Nonconservation of global charges in the brane universe and
baryogenesis." (SPIRES link)
by G. Dvali (New York U. & ICTP, Trieste)
and G.
Gabadadze (New York U.)
arXive:hep-ph/9904221, updated December 10, 2001; Published in Phys.Lett.B460:47-57,1999
"Gravitational
Baryogenesis" (SPIRES link)
H. Davoudiasl, R. Kitano, G. D. Kribs, H. Murayama, P. J. Steinhardt
Effective D=7 operators in such model can generate n-nbar transitions
Phys.Rev.Lett.93:201301,2004
"Baryon and Lepton
Number Violation with Scalar Bilinears", (SPIRES
link)
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Ernest Ma, U. Sarkar, Mod.Phys.Lett.A
17:2221,2002
"Neutron-Antineutron
Oscillations in Nuclei Revisited" (SPIRES link)
J. Hufner, B. Kopeliovich , Mod.Phys.Lett.A13:2385-2392,1998
"Neutron-Antineutron
Oscillarions in the Trapping Box", (SPIRES link)
B. Kerbikov, Phys.Atom.Nucl.66:2178-2182,2003,
Yad.Fiz.66:2228-2232,2003
"Neutron-Antineutron
Oscillations in a Trap Revisited", (SPIRES link)
B.O. Kerbikov, A.E. Kudryavtsev, V.A. Lensky,
J.Exp.Theor.Phys.98:417-426,2004, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.98:476-485,2004
"N-AntiN
Oscillations in Models with Large Extra Dimensions" (SPIRES
link)
By S. Nussinov (Tel Aviv U.), R. Shrock (SUNY, Stony Brook). Dec 2001.
e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0112337
"Quantum
damping and its 'paradoxes'." (SPIRES link)
By Leo Stodolsky, MPI-PAE-PTH-59-90, Oct 1990
"A
new experiment to search for neutron - antineutron transitions at HFIR
reactor" (PDF document)
by Yu. Kamyshkov (U. of Tennessee), from Proceedings of Workshop on
Fundamental
Physics with Pulsed Neutron Beams, Research Triangle Park, NC, June
1-3, 2000
"Nucleon
instability and (B-L) non-conservation" (PDF document)
by Yu. Kamyshkov, from Proceedings of AIP Workshop on "Next Generation
Nucleon Decay
and Neutrino Detector", Stony Brook, 23-25 September, 1999
"Neutron-antineutron
transitions and (B-L) non-conservation" (PDF document)
Yu. Kamyshkov, in "Comments on Modern Physics", 2: A249-A260, 2002
NNbar Workshops
International
Workshop On Future Prospects Of Baryon Instability Search
in p-Decay And n-anti-n Oscillation Experiments,
28-30 Mar 1996, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
International
Workshop on Neutron-Antineutron Transition Search with Ultracold
Neutrons,
13-14 September 2002, at IUCF, Bloomington, IN,
USA. all talks
International
Conference on Ultra Cold and Cold Neutron Physics and Sources
St.Petersburg, Russia, 16-21 June 2003, section
Neutron-Antineutron oscillation:
DUSEL
and Homestake Papers
and Talks:
January 27, 2006: Letter of Interest to Homestake/DUSEL
"Search for Neutron-Antineutron Transition at Homestake
DUSEL" doc
pdf
LOI #7 Presentation to PAC Homestake February 10,
2006
ppt pdf
at Homestake DUSEL workshop Feb 9-11, 2006 at Lead,SD
Talk February 9, 2006 at Homestake DUSEL workshop
Feb 9-11, 2006 at
Lead,SD
ppt
NEW!
Homestake Program Advisory
Committee Report
link
DUSEL and Henderson Links and Talk:
Science and Engineering at Henderson DUSEL Capstone
Workshop Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New
York
May 4 - 7, 2006
link
NEW!
N-Nbar presentation at Stony Brook Workshop
May 5, 2006
ppt
Other DUSEL related talks:
DUSEL Workshop @ University of Colorado, January 4-7,
2005 ppt
Search for Neutron-Antineutron transition at DUSEL, Yu. Kamyshkov
One-page motivation for n-nbar search at DUSEL (January 2005)
pdf
Letter of Interest, Search for Neutron-Antineutron
Transition
doc
at Sudbury, submitted March 15, 2005
"Search for N-Nbar Transitions in Underground
Laboratory"
ppt
Yu. Kamyshkov, talk at Workshop on Exploring the Physics
Frontier at the Deep Underground Laboratories
June 24, 2005, INT, University of Washington, Seattle
Other Recent Talks and Materials:
"A
Very Cold Neutron Source,VCNS", Presentation to the University of
Chicago
Review Committee for IPNS, 9 March, 2005, Preliminary Studies of an
Accelerator
Driven Spallation Source of Very Cold Neutron Beams
J. M. Carpenter, R. L. Kustom, G. J. McMichael, and B. J. Micklich
"Neutron-Antineutron
Transition Search theoretical situation and experimental prospects"
June 26, 2003, Yu. Kamyshkov, Seminar at FLNP/JINR/Dubna
"CPT
test in Neutron-Antineutron transitions" , Yuri Kamyshkov
University of Tennessee and UT Neutron Science Consortium
III CPT'04 meeting, Indiana University August 4-7, 2004
"Search
for n-nbar transitions", Yu. Kamyshkov
3-rd BNL/UCLA Workshop on Multipurpose Detectors for
Nucleon Decay and VLBL Neutrino Physics
February 28-March 1, 2005 @ UCLA
"Searches
for Baryon Number Violation", Yu. Kamyshkov
SLAC Experimental Seminar, Tuesday, May 17, 2005
"Baryon
Number Violating Processes and Proton Driver", Yu. Kamyshkov
Fermilab Wine and Cheese Seminar, Friday, June 3, 2005
"Search
for Neutron to Antineutron Oscillations", Yu. Kamyshkov
Workshop on “Theoretical Problems in Fundamental Neutron Physics”
Columbia, SC October 14-15, 2005
Letters:
Letter
to Fred Gilman (PDF document)
from September 8, 2000 in support of new reactor experiment for
neutron-antineutron transition search.
Letter to
the NRC's Committee of Mike Turner on the Physics of
the Universe (CPU), March 26, 2001
Message to Janet Conrad (member of HEPAP subpanel) on N-nbar
experiment, August 8, 2001
Documents:
From NSAC Long Range Plan Home Page:
DNP Town Meeting White Paper (November 2000)
"Astrophysics, Neutrinos and Symmetries"
N-nbar is mentiond on pages 41-42.
"The
Science Ahead, The Way to Discovery" The High-Energy Physics
Advisory Panel
long range plan for U.S. high-energy physics in the 21st
century - Report of Subpanel
for Long Range Planning fir U.S. High-Energy Physics (approved by HEPAP,
January 28, 2002)
See section 2.2.5 "Unification Scale Physics", page 15 or Section
A5 on page 57
Homestake
Program Advisory Committee Report, May 12, 2006 , Local
Copy
N-Nbar
Talks:
Presentation
to HEPAP sub-panel: at SLAC May 23, 2001
"Reactor Search for Neutron-Antineutron Transitions", Yu. Kamyshkov.
Presentation
to NRC Committee chaired by Mike Turner on the
Physics of the Universe (CPU) at Snowmass, July 13, 2001
Yu. Kamyshkov, "Neutron-Antineutron Search".
Talk at
NNN'2002 Workshop January 16-18, 2002 at CERN
"Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations"
Snowmass Talks: in P3 working group "Scales beyond 1 TeV"
"Neutron-Antineutron
Oscillation and Proton Decay"
P3 Group Plenary Session
July 14, 2001
Agenda of this session is here
(PDF format)
Yu. Kamyshkov (UT),
"Neutron-Antineutron Transition Search" (Introduction and Overview)
R. Mohapatra (UM), "N-Nbar in Unification Models": based on
hep-ph/0108089
Yu. Kamyshkov (UT), "New
Proposal to Search for Neutron-Antineutron Transitions at HFIR/ORNL
Reactor"
Seth Hoedl (Princeton University), "A
Search for N-Nbar Oscillations with UCN"
P3 Subgroup Summaries:
Yu. Kamyshkov (UT), "Few
points on n-nbar. Alternative search for Baryon Instability",
P3 subgroup meeting at Snowmass on July 18, 2001
Greg Landsberg (Brown U.)
Summary report of P3 group at the general Snowmass
Plenary session on July 19, 2001
More
letters:
In April 2001 L.B.Okun (ITEP/Moscow) has visited ORNL and had a
discussion with
Lee Riedinger and Jim Roberto on the possibility of n-nbar experiment
at ORNL.
Here is a memo of Lee Riedinger from April 18, 2001 in effect of
this visit.
Letter to Lee Riedinger from January 28, 2002 in follow up of HEPAP
subpanel report
Draft Memo
of expected reply from ORNL. March 18, 2002.
Letter of Intent 1996:
Old Letter of Intent submitted to ORNL
in November 1996 (MS WORD document)
There was no response from ORNL to this Letter.
N-Nbar with Ultra Cold
Neutrons?
Sensitivity
of N-Nbar search with UCN
(Yu. Kamyshkov from the results of Indiana 2002 Workshop)
Seth Hoedl (Princeton University), "A
Search for N-Nbar Oscillations with UCN"
(Talk at P3 working group plenary session at Snowmass July 14, 2001)
SUNS-Spallation Ultra
Cold Neutron Source at PSI
Technical Review of SUNS, Large PDF Document November 2000
"An ultracold neutron facility at PSI" small paper
(K.Kirch for the UCN collaboration) July 20, 2001
A. Serebrov (PNPI/Gatchina)
talk at PSI UCN seminar, November 15, 2001
"A possibility for a n-nbar oscillation experiment at PSI SUNS"
Yu. Kamyshkov, A. Serebrov, M. Daum, A. Fomin
Some transparencies (in MS Word.doc format) from the discussion
of n-nbar experiment with UCN at SUNS
SUNS Mini-Workshop, December 3 and 4, 2001 at PSI
A. Serebrov's Proposal ( 1 , 2 , 3 )for
UCN Factory at ESS
Updated February 18, 2006 by Y.K.
Please send comments/questions to Yuri Kamyshkov .