Comment by antonvs

6 hours ago

Neutrons are not that different from protons. The decay from neutrons to protons is pretty well understood, and there’s no reason to think that the nature of quark/gluon interactions in a neutron are significantly different from those in a proton. What kind of new physics are you imagining we’d get?

Of course more experimental data is a good thing, but in this case it doesn’t seem obvious that it would lead to anything really new.

Why do you say they're "pretty well understood" when there's been a long-standing unresolved discrepancy between lifetime measurement techniques?