On Bound-State beta^- Decay Rate of the Free Neutron

2009/02/10 by M. Faber, A. N. Ivanov, Faber, M. +14
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0902.1728

3 pages

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Abstract

We calculate the bound-state beta^- decay rate of the free neutron. We show that hydrogen in the final state of the decay is produced with a probability of about 99% in the hyperfine state with zero orbital l = 0 and atomic angular momentum F = 0.

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