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Quasielastic Scattering In The Interaction Of Ultracold Neutrons With A Liquid Wall And Application In A Reanalysis Of The Mambo I Neutron-Lifetime Experiment, Albert Steyerl, J. M. Pendlebury, Charles Kaufman, Surendra S. Malik, A. M. Desai
Quasielastic Scattering In The Interaction Of Ultracold Neutrons With A Liquid Wall And Application In A Reanalysis Of The Mambo I Neutron-Lifetime Experiment, Albert Steyerl, J. M. Pendlebury, Charles Kaufman, Surendra S. Malik, A. M. Desai
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We develop a theory of ultracold and very cold neutron scattering on viscoelastic surface waves up to second-order perturbation theory. The results are applied to reanalyze the 1989 neutron-lifetime experiment using ultracold neutron storage in a Fomblin-coated vessel by Mampe et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 593 (1989)]. Inclusion of this theory of the quasielastic scattering process in the data analysis shifts the neutron lifetime value from 887.6 ± 3 to 882.5 ± 2.1 s.