Searches for baryon number violation, including searches for proton decay and neutron-antineutron transformation ( → ̅), are expected to play an important role in the evolution of our understanding of beyond Standard Model physics. The → ̅ is a key prediction of certain popular theories of baryogenesis, and the experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and the European Spallation Source plan to search for this process with bound-and free-neutron systems. Accurate simulation of this process in Monte Carlo will be important for the proper reconstruction and separation of these rare events from background. This article presents developments towards accurate simulation of the annihilation process for use in a cold, free neutron beam for → ̅ searches from ̅ annihilation, as 6 12 is the target of choice for the European Spallation Source's NNBar Collaboration. Initial efforts are also made in this paper to perform analogous studies for intra-nuclear transformation searches in 18 40 nuclei.I.
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