Neutron β-decay and the quark-mixing CKM-matrix

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  • Hartmut Abele
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Neutrons study a number of hot topics from the field of particle physics and cosmology: Recent measurements of various mixed American-British-French-GermanHungarian-Japan-Russian groups of researchers determine the strength of the weak interaction of the neutron, which gives us unique information on quark-mixing and the question of unitarity. Much to our surprise, with neutron-decay we find a deviation ∆ = 0.0083(28) from the unitarity condition, an effect that cannot be explained by the current Standard Model of particle physics.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002