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Neutron lifetime puzzle and neutron-mirror neutron oscillation

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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 79, Issue 6, Pages -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6995-x

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  1. research Grant The Dark Universe: A Synergic Multimessenger Approach under the program PRIN 2017 - Ministero dell'Istruzione, Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR) [2017X7X85K]
  2. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF) of Georgia [DI-18-335]

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Standard Model, with its present precision, predicts the neutron -decay time SM=878.7 +/- 0.6s which is perfectly compatible with the neutron lifetime measured in the trap experiments trap=879.4 +/- 0.6s. However, the lifetime measured in the beam experiments via counting the protons produced by -decay npe e, beam=888 +/- 2.0 s, is deviated from SM by 9 seconds (4.4 sigma). This discrepancy can be explained via the neutron n conversion into mirror neutron n, its dark partner from parallel mirror sector. Provided that n and n have a tiny mass splitting approximate to 10-7eV, in magnetic fields of few Tesla used in beam experiments, n-n transition is resonantly enhanced converting a 1% fraction of neutrons into mirror neutrons which decay in invisible mode npe . Thus less protons are produced and the measured value beam appears larger than the true decay time tau(trap).

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