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Neutron-antineutron transition as a test-bed for dynamical CPT violations

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arxiv 1505.02080 v4 pith:6QC6JHZU submitted 2015-05-08 hep-ph

Neutron-antineutron transition as a test-bed for dynamical CPT violations

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keywords neutroncpt-violatingdynamicalmassneutron-antineutronsectoreffectsexotic
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We show a simple mechanism for a dynamical CPT violation in the neutron sector. In particular, we show a {\it CPT-violating see-saw mechanism}, generating a Majorana mass and a CPT violating mass for the neutron. CPT-violating see-saw involves a sterile partner of the neutron, living in a hidden sector, in which CPT is spontaneously broken. In particular, neutrons (antineutrons) can communicate with the hidden sector through non-perturbative quantum gravity effects called {\it exotic instantons}. Exotic instantons dynamically break R-parity, generating one effective vertex between the neutron and its sterile partner. In this way, we show how a small CPT violating mass term for the neutron is naturally generated. This model can be tested in the next generation of experiments in neutron-antineutron physics. This strongly motivates researches of CPT-violating effects in neutron-antineutron physics, as a test-bed for dynamical CPT-violations in SM.

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