https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11497-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Dark matter implications of the neutron anomaly
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Received:
3
January
2023
Accepted:
10
April
2023
Published online:
4
May
2023
Motivated by the neutron decay anomaly, we reconsider the neutron decay model 
, where the new species 
plays the role of dark matter. We precisely compute the 
rate finding that fitting the anomaly compatibly with all bounds needs at least two ”generations” of the particle.
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11497-9.
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