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We study the systematic decomposition of the dimension nine neutron-antineutron oscillation operators at tree and one-loop levels. We discuss the topologies’ generation and the assignment of the chiral quarks. The completed lists of the decompositions are provided. We furthermore show an example that the neutron-antineutron oscillation occurs at one-loop level, with the tiny neutrino mass being generated via the scotogenic model and proton decay being evaded.
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Chen, SL., Xiao, YQ. The decomposition of neutron-antineutron oscillation operators. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 65 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)065
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