Baryon number violation from confining new physics

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 similar to 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-antineutron oscillation generated through the condensation of the linear moose.

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The detection of neutron-antineutron oscillation is of fundamental importance in particle physics and cosmology. Existing models suggest that this process is generated by heavy new physics with weak, perturbative coupling at the experimental scale. However, considering the ambiguity in the strength and scale of new physics, this paper discusses a new mechanism that generates low-energy baryon number violating effects by confining new physics at around 2 GeV. This mechanism predicts baryon number violating processes such as neutron disappearance, neutron-neutron annihilation, and neutron-antineutron oscillation generated through the condensation of the linear moose.