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VOLUME 92 (2010) | ISSUE 1 | PAGE 16
A Detailed analysis and Monte Carlo simulation of the neutron lifetime experiment
Abstract
We performed a detailed analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation of the neutron lifetime experiment (Phys. Lett. B 483, 15 (2000)) because of the strong disagreement by 5.6 standard deviations between the results of this experiment and our experiment [1]. We found a few effects which were not taken into account in the experiment [3]. The possible correction is -5.5 s with uncertainty of 2.4 s which comes from initial data knowledge. We assume that after taking into account this correction the result of work [3] for neutron lifetime 885.4\pm 0.9_{\rm stat}\pm 0.4_{\rm syst} s could be corrected to 879.9 \pm 0.9_{\rm stat }\pm 2.4_{\rm syst} s.