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Comment on "Search for explanation of the neutron lifetime anomaly"

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Fred Wietfeldt, Ripan Biswas, Jimmy Caylor, Bret Crawford, Maynard Dewey, Nadia Fomin, Geoffrey Greene, Christopher Haddock, Shannon Hoogerheide, Hans Mumm, Jeffrey Nico, William Snow, Joseph Zuchegno

Abstract

We respond to issues raised by Serebrov et al. in a recent paper regarding systematic effects in the beam neutron lifetime experiment performed at NIST. We show that these effects were considered in the original analyses and that our corrections and systematic uncertainties were appropriate. We point out some misunderstandings in the analysis of Serebrov et al.. None of the issues raised lead us to alter the value of the neutron lifetime reported.
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Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Issue
107
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.118501
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Wietfeldt, F. , Biswas, R. , Caylor, J. , Crawford, B. , Dewey, M. , Fomin, N. , Greene, G. , Haddock, C. , Hoogerheide, S. , Mumm, H. , Nico, J. , Snow, W. and Zuchegno, J. (2023), Comment on "Search for explanation of the neutron lifetime anomaly", Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.118501, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935407 (Accessed March 14, 2025)

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Created June 23, 2023, Updated March 13, 2025