Neutron Lifetime Discrepancy as a Sign of a Dark Sector?
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Neutron Lifetime Discrepancy as a Sign of a Dark Sector?

Abstract

We summarize our recent proposal of explaining the discrepancy between the bottle and beam measurements of the neutron lifetime through the existence of a dark sector, which the neutron can decay to with a branching fraction 1%. We show that viable particle physics models for such neutron dark decays can be constructed and we briefly comment on recent developments in this area.

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