Comment on "Neutron lifetime and dark decay of the neutron and hydrogen''
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Comment on "Neutron lifetime and dark decay of the neutron and hydrogen''

Abstract

The manuscript by Berezhiani (arXiv:1812.11089) proposes a model that has the neutron decaying into a mirror neutron with a branching fraction of 1%, alleviating the tension between neutron lifetime measurements in beam vs bottle experiments. We show that the model as proposed is inconsistent with experiment. Variations of the model may work at the expense of extreme breaking of the $Z_2$ symmetry between the Standard Model and its mirror copy.

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