Baryon number violation from confining New Physics

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel mechanism for baryon number violation via confining New Physics at around 2 GeV, leading to observable low-energy processes like neutron disappearance and neutron-antineutron oscillation.

Contribution

It introduces a new low-energy baryon number violation mechanism driven by confining New Physics, differing from traditional high-scale models.

Findings

Predicts neutron disappearance and neutron-antineutron oscillation.

Suggests baryon number violation from condensates of the linear moose.

Provides a new avenue for detecting New Physics effects.

Abstract

The detection of neutron-antineutron oscillation will be a discovery of fundamental importance in particle physics and cosmology. In models discussed widely in literature, the process is generated through heavy New Physics with weak, perturbative, coupling at the scale of the experiment. Acknowledging the fact that Nature has been quite evasive regarding the strength and scale of New Physics, we discuss a new mechanism, generated by confining New Physics, at $\sim 2$ GeV, resulting in low-energy baryon number violating effects. The mechanism predicts baryon number violating processes like neutron disappearance, neutron-neutron annihilation and neutron-anti neutron oscillation generated through the condensation of the linear moose.