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Neutron - Antineutron Oscillations in a Trap Revisited

B. O. Kerbikov, A. E. Kudryavtsev, V. A. Lensky

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0306039

Abstract

We have reexamined the problem of n- n oscillations for ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) confined within a trap. It is shown that for up to 103 collisions with the walls the process can be described in terms of wave packets. The exact equation is derived describing the time-evolution of the n-component for an arbitrary number of collisions with the trap walls. The n-component grows linearly with time with enhancement factor depending on the reflection properties of the walls.

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