https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/22/strange-case-decaying-neutrons/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/22/strange-case-decaying-neutrons/#comment-3900 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:35:36 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5920#comment-3900 You’re right, both measured lifetime, or the time constant of the exponential decay rate.

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/22/strange-case-decaying-neutrons/#comment-3893 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:40:44 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5920#comment-3893 I think you confused half-life with lifetime. Both sources measured the lifetime of neutrons not their half-life. The half-life is defined as ln(2)/lambda and the lifetime is defined as 1/lambda. When I remember correctly the half-life is somewhere around 610 seconds.

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