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SUMMARY:National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
 Bartosz Fornal, University of Utah, will be speaking.\n
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 The 
 presentation title is "Neutron's 
 Dark Secret."\n
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 The neutron is one of the 
 most important constituents of matter. It is 
 absolutely crucial for the existence of atoms 
 heavier than hydrogen. Surprisingly, the precise 
 value of the free neutron lifetime is still 
 an open question, with two types of experiments 
 (bottle and beam measurements) providing 
 substantially different answers. I will describe 
 the recently proposed interpretation 
 of this discrepancy as a sign of neutron decaying 
 to dark particles, and show that phenomenologically 
 consistent models of this type can 
 be constructed. I will also elaborate on the 
 theoretical developments around this idea and 
 discuss the efforts undertaken to verify it 
 experimentally.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.nscl.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-9671\n
 Contact email: nscl.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.nscl.msu.edu/apps/seminars.php\n
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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