Journal
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/sym13112169
Keywords
dark matter decay modes; neutron lifetime anomaly; deuteron electrodisintegration
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- Austrian Fonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) [P31702-N27, P26636-N20]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [AB 128/5-2]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB/TR 55]
- MA 23
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This study discusses the investigation of dark matter decay modes of the neutron as proposed by several researchers, aiming to solve the neutron lifetime anomaly problem. Through analyzing the electrodisintegration reaction and proposing a method to search for dark matter fermions near threshold, the study suggests a possible detection method through coincidence experiments.
We discuss an investigation of the dark matter decay modes of the neutron, proposed by Fornal and Grinstein (2018-2020), Berezhiani (2017, 2018) and Ivanov et al. (2018) for solution of the neutron lifetime anomaly problem, through the analysis of the electrodisintegration of the deuteron d into dark matter fermions ? and protons p close to threshold. We calculate the triple-differential cross section for the reaction e(-)+d & RARR;?+p(+)e(-) and propose to search for such a dark matter channel in coincidence experiments on the electrodisintegration of the deuteron e(-)+d & RARR;n+p+e(- )into neutrons n and protons close to threshold with outgoing electrons, protons, and neutrons in coincidence. An absence of neutron signals should testify to a detection of dark matter fermions.
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