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Modelling the inverse Zeno effect for the neutron decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-19 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Beam and trap methods find incompatible results for the lifetime of the neutron: the former delivers a value which is about 8.7±2.18.7\pm2.1 s longer than the latter. Very recently (1906.10024) it has been proposed that the inverse Zeno effect (IZE) could be responsible for the shorter lifetime in trap experiments. Here, we compare two different models of measurement, one obtained by bang-bang measurements and by a continuous measurement: the IZE turns out to be in both cases very similar, showing that the results do not depend on the details of the measurement process.

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@article{arxiv.1909.01099,
  title  = {Modelling the inverse Zeno effect for the neutron decay},
  author = {Francesco Giacosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01099},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings contribution of the 3rd Jagiellonian Symposium on Fundamental and Applied Subatomic Physics, 23-28/6/2019, Jagiellonian University, Krak\'ow, Poland

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