Colloquium : The neutron lifetime
@article{Wietfeldt2011ColloquiumT,
title={Colloquium : The neutron lifetime},
author={F. E. Wietfeldt and G. Greene},
journal={Reviews of Modern Physics},
year={2011},
volume={83},
pages={1173-1192}
}The decay of the free neutron into a proton, electron, and antineutrino is the prototype semileptonic weak decay and is the simplest example of nuclear beta decay. It played a key role in the early Universe as it determined the ratio of neutrons to protons during the era of primordial light element nucleosynthesis. Neutron decay is physically related to important processes in solar physics and neutrino detection. The mean neutron lifetime has been the subject of more than 20 major experiments… CONTINUE READING
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