Colloquium: The neutron lifetime

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Wietfeldt, Fred E ^a   Greene, Geoffrey L ^b,c  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DECAY; EARLY UNIVERSE; LIGHT ELEMENTS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRON DECAYS; NEUTRON LIFETIME; SOLAR PHYSICS;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; PROTONS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 82955217681     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.83.1173     Document Type: Article

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