December 12, 2025
Author(s)
Jimmy Caylor, Ripan Biswas, Bret Crawford, Maynard Dewey, Nadia Fomin, Geoffrey Greene, Shannon Hoogerheide, Jose Hungria-Negron, Hans Mumm, Jeffrey Nico, Daniel Valete, Fred Wietfeldt, Joseph Zuchegno
One method of determining the free neutron lifetime involves the absolute counting of neutrons and trapped decay protons. In such experiments, a cold neutron beam traverses a segmented proton trap inside a superconducting solenoid while the neutron flux is