By Susan J Seestrom (ed.)
World Scientific
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The neutron lifetime is an important fundamental quantity, as well as a parameter influencing important processes such as nucleosynthesis and the rate of energy production in the Sun, so there is great interest in improving the limits of its value to a precision level of 0.1 s. This workshop, held in November 2012, aimed to create a road map of R&D for a next-generation neutron-lifetime experiment that can be endorsed by the North American neutron community. The focus was on experiments using traps with ultracold neutrons and confinement by a combination of magnetic and/or gravitational interaction to avoid systematic uncertainties introduced by neutron interactions with material walls.
