Measurement of the 8Li half-life

We report a new measurement of the Li-8 half-life using a plastic scintillator and an ultrafast waveform digitizing module. The result, T-1/2 = (838.40 +/- 0.36) ms, improves by a factor of 2.5 the most precise result obtained so far and is furthermore deduced with negligible corrections due to dead time.