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Realistic calculations of nuclear disappearance lifetimes induced by neutron-antineutron oscillations
Realistic calculations of nuclear disappearance lifetimes induced by
neutron-antineutron oscillations are reported for oxygen and iron, using
antineutron nuclear potentials derived from a recent comprehensive analysis of
antiproton atomic X-ray and radiochemical data. A lower limit of 3.3 x 10E8 s
on the neutron-antineutron oscillation time is derived from the
Super-Kamiokande I new lower limit of 1.77 x 10E32 yr on the neutron lifetime
in oxygen. Antineutron scattering lengths in carbon and nickel, needed in trap
experiments using ultracold neutrons, are calculated from updated antinucleon
optical potentials at threshold, with results shown to be largely model
independent.Comment: version matching PRD publication, typos and references correcte
Decaying Dark Matter from Dark Instantons
We construct an explicit, TeV-scale model of decaying dark matter in which
the approximate stability of the dark matter candidate is a consequence of a
global symmetry that is broken only by instanton-induced operators generated by
a non-Abelian dark gauge group. The dominant dark matter decay channels are to
standard model leptons. Annihilation of the dark matter to standard model
states occurs primarily through the Higgs portal. We show that the mass and
lifetime of the dark matter candidate in this model can be chosen to be
consistent with the values favored by fits to data from the PAMELA and Fermi
LAT experiments.Comment: 19 pages LaTeX, 3 eps figures. v2,v3: references adde
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