Physicists Confront the Neutron Lifetime Puzzle | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leah Broussard shows a neutron-absorbing "wall" that stops all neutrons but in theory would allow hypothetical mirror neutrons to pass through.

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Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

From left, ORNL’s Matthew Frost and Leah Broussard used a neutron scattering instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source to search for a dark matter twin to the neutron.

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