Neutron's dark secret

B Fornal, B Grinstein - Modern Physics Letters A, 2020 - World Scientific
The existing discrepancy between neutron lifetime measurements in bottle and beam
experiments has been interpreted as a sign of the neutron decaying to dark particles. We …

Shedding light on dark sectors with gravitational waves

N Bunji, B Fornal, K Garcia - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in elementary
particle physics. It might well be that the dark matter particle belongs to a dark sector …

Neutron Dark Decay

B Fornal - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
There exists a puzzling disagreement between the results for the neutron lifetime obtained in
experiments using the beam technique versus those relying on the bottle method. A possible …