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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2010 Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 16–21 (Mi jetpl758)

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CONDENSED MATTER

A Detailed analysis and Monte Carlo simulation of the neutron lifetime experiment

A. K. Fomin, A. P. Serebrov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute RAS

Abstract: We performed a detailed analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation of the neutron lifetime experiment (Phys. Lett. B <b>483</b>, 15 (2000)) because of the strong disagreement by 5.6 standard deviations between the results of this experiment and our experiment [1]. We found a few effects which were not taken into account in the experiment [3]. The possible correction is $-5.5$ s with uncertainty of 2.4 s which comes from initial data knowledge. We assume that after taking into account this correction the result of work [3] for neutron lifetime $885.4\pm 0.9_{\rm stat}\pm 0.4_{\rm syst}\,$s could be corrected to $879.9\pm0.9_{\rm stat }\pm 2.4_{\rm syst}$ s.

Received: 19.05.2010
Revised: 21.05.2010

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2010, 92:1, 40–45

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