Neutron-antineutron oscillations in the deuteron studied with NN and N̄N interactions based on chiral effective field theory * * This work is supported in part by the DFG and the NSFC through funds provided to the Sino-German CRC 110 "Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD" (DFG grant. no. TRR 110) and the VolkswagenStiftung (93562). The work of UGM

Abstract

Neutron-antineutron ( ) oscillations in the deuteron are considered. Specifically, the deuteron lifetime is calculated in terms of the free-space oscillation time based on and interactions derived within chiral effective field theory (EFT). This results in s, which is close to the value obtained by Dover and collaborators more than three decades ago, but disagrees with recent EFT calculations that were performed within the perturbative scheme proposed by Kaplan, Savage, and Wise. Possible reasons for the difference are discussed.