Neutron-Mirror Neutron Oscillations in Absorbing Matter
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- 25 January 2022
- Vol. 14 (2), 230
- https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020230
Abstract
The possibility that a neutron can be transformed to a hidden sector particle remains intriguingly open. Proposed theoretical models conjecture that the hidden sector can be represented by a mirror sector, and the neutron n can oscillate into its sterile mirror twin , exactly or nearly degenerate in mass with n. Oscillations can take place in vacuum or in an environment containing regular matter and a magnetic field, in which only the neutron will be subject to interactions with the environment. We describe the propagation of the oscillating system in a cold neutron beam passing through dense absorbing materials in connection to the possible regeneration type of experiments, where the effect of transformation can be observed.
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