| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 219, 2019
International Workshop on Particle Physics at Neutron Sources (PPNS 2018)
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| Article Number | 05005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Tests of Gravity, Dark Matter and Dark Energy | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921905005 | |
| Published online | 12 December 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921905005
Dark side of the neutron?
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
a e-mail: bfornal@ucsd.edu
b e-mail: bgrinstein@ucsd.edu
Published online: 12 December 2019
We discuss our recently proposed interpretation of the discrepancy between the bottle and beam neutron lifetime experiments as a sign of a dark sector. The difference between the outcomes of the two types of measurements is explained by the existence of a neutron dark decay channel with a branching fraction 1%. Phenomenologically consistent particle physics models for the neutron dark decay can be constructed and they involve a strongly self-interacting dark sector. We elaborate on the theoretical developments around this idea and describe the efforts undertaken to verify it experimentally.
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