Neutron Lifetime Puzzle

...or why do bottled neutrons decay faster than neutrons in a beam?

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Congrats to Ben Koch and Felix Hummel from Technische Universität Wien. In their recent publication they provide a hint as to why neutron lifetimes are so different when measured from a neutron beam or from neutrons stored in a magnetic bottle.

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