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Particles and interactions

Particles and interactions

Space-based spectrometer enters neutron lifetime debate

20 Jul 2020 Isabelle Dumé
Artist impression of MESSENGER spacecraft
Artist impression of MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit at Mercury. (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
While protons remain stable for at least 1034 years outside the nucleus, a free neutron survives for

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