Heavy Quarks through the Looking Glass

Session

Festive Colloquim

4 Oct 2018, 17:00

D-114 (University of Siegen, ENC)

44. Festive Colloquim Introduction

04/10/2018, 17:00

43. The Neutron Decay Anomaly: how it may be a window to new physics

Benjamin Grinstein (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

04/10/2018, 17:15

In this talk I will first review a long-standing discrepancy between the neutron lifetime as measured in beam and in bottle experiments. If this discrepancy is not due to a systematic error, it may be due to novel mechanisms for neutron transmutation into new, as yet unknown elementary particles. These particles would be electrically neutral, or so-called "dark". We will explain several...