<ul><li>Physicists at TU Wien propose a possible explanation for the discrepancy in measuring the neutron lifetime.</li><li>The difference in lifetimes measured using the bottle technique and the beam technique could be due to the neutron being in undiscovered excited states.</li><li>The team suggests that the transition matrix describing the decay of neutrons into protons would be different for neutrons in excited states and ground states.</li><li>Experimental tests are needed to confirm the hypothesis and shed new light on the structure of neutral nuclear matter.</li></ul>

Physicists propose new solution to the neutron lifetime puzzle

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