@article{f4de2becce34403295358e87f8e883be,
title = "Baryon-Number Violation by Two Units and the Deuteron Lifetime",
abstract = "We calculate the lifetime of the deuteron with dimension-nine quark operators that violate baryon number by two units. We construct an effective field theory for |ΔB|=2 interactions that give rise to neutron-antineutron (n-n) oscillations and dinucleon decay within a consistent power counting. We calculate the ratio of the deuteron lifetime to the square of the n-n oscillation time up to next-to-leading order. Our result, which is analytical and has a quantified uncertainty, is smaller by a factor ≃2.5 than earlier estimates based on nuclear models, which impacts the indirect bound on the n-n oscillation time and future experiments. We discuss how combined measurements of n-n oscillations and deuteron decay can help to identify the sources of baryon-number violation.",
author = "F. Oosterhof and B. Long and {De Vries}, J. and Timmermans, {R. G.E.} and {Van Kolck}, U.",
note = "Funding Information: B. L. and U. v. K. thank Z. Chacko for stressing the need for an EFT calculation of the deuteron lifetime. We are also grateful to J. Carbonell and J.-M. Richard for discussions on N N ¯ potential models. This research was supported by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under program 156 (F. O., R. G. E. T.), by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through Grants No. 11735003 and No. 11775148 (B. L.), by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award No. DE-FG02-04ER41338 (U. v. K.), and by the European Union Research and Innovation program Horizon 2020 under Grant Agreement No. 654002 (U. v. K.). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Physical Society.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.172501",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "122",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "17",
}