Beta Decay
Evolution of single-particle structure and beta-decay near 78Ni
... with N>50 has been measured for the first time at HRIBF ORNL using nearly pure isotopic beams of the studied nuclei and tagging technique with efficiency calibrated γ- detectors [4]. Together with earlier evidence ...
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Testing CVC and CKM Unitarity via superallowed nuclear beta decay
... Superallowed beta decay between nuclear analogue states with T = 1 and J π = 0 + occurs only via the vector current of the weak interaction: angular momentum conservation completely rules out the ...
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Double Beta Decay with a Segmented Enriched Germanium Detector.
... double beta-decay ...0νββ decay experiments result from natural radioactivity in materials, cosmogenic sources and ingrowth, and 2νββ decay ...whose decay chains have several decays ...
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Present and future strategies for Neutrinoless Double Beta decay searches
... Double Beta Decay (DBD) is a rare spontaneous nuclear transition [1], in which a nucleus (A,Z) decays to another nucleus (A,Z + 2) with the simultaneous emission of two ...The decay can then proceed ...
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The Physics of Ultracold Neutrons and Fierz Interference in Beta Decay
... The first part covers the physics of neutrons in the Standard Model. In particular, we begin by developing the Standard Model, as generally as possible, and then move toward a more specific derivation of the components ...
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Working With CUORE In Search for The Neutrinoless-Double Beta Decay
... double beta decay (0νββ), which, if discovered, will not only finally allow measurement of the neutrino mass in the standard model but also assert that the neutrino is its own ...
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Neutrinoless double-beta decay search with CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments
... single-beta decay is either energetically forbid- den or kinematically ...single beta decay may be absorbed in the second beta decay vertex (through helicity flipping) which would ...
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aCORN: Measuring the electron-antineutrino correlation in neutron beta decay
... Fermi beta decay distribution with the aCORN transverse momentum cuts applied and convoluted with a Gaussian energy resolution function with width proportional to √ ...
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Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from the GERDA experiment
... The experimental sensitivity can be improved by analysing the pulse shapes of the detector signals with the aim of rejecting background events. Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is therefore used to separate single-site ...
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The Nab experiment: A precision measurement of unpolarized neutron beta decay
... neutron decay is one of the most fundamental and simplest weak interaction processes and serves as an illuminating tool to test our understanding of the Standard Model ...neutron beta decay and its ...
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Two neutrino double-beta decay and effective axial-vector coupling constant
... double-beta decay (2νββ-decay) is of crucial importance for reliable calculation of matrix elements governing the neutrinoless double-beta decay ...
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A Quantum Dynamics of Heisenberg Model of the Neutron Associated with Beta Decay
... = + + . In 1932 Werner Heisenberg proposed a form of interaction between the neutrons and protons inside the nucleus, in which neutrons were composite particles of pro- tons and electrons. These composite neutrons would ...
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NoMoS: An R × B drift momentum spectrometer for beta decay studies
... in beta decay [22], for example scalar and tensor couplings (see [23–25] for extensive discussions of possible ...muon decay and with the LHC at full luminosity and energy ...of beta decays ...
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Measurement of the Neutron Beta Decay Asymmetry using Ultracold Neutrons
... neutron decay simulations with quasi-random initial energy and angle distributions indicate improvements in convergence equivalent to running & 2 times as many randomly generated events for fitting the ...
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Beta Decay and the Cosmic Neutrino Background
... gravitational clustering and by the strength of the beta decay source (specifically the intensity of the tritium source. In chapter 4 after eq. (29) we discuss this possibility, which would allow tp find the ...
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Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 124Sn
... years [1] and it was suggested by G. Racah that neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ or NDBD) can be used to probe the true nature of neutrino [2]. Presently 0νββ, which can occur if neutrinos have mass and ...
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Integral Equations in Neutrino Mass Searches from Beta Decay
... from beta decay is ...theoretical beta-particle spectra can consist of several neutrino-mass ...the beta spectrum with a normalized instrumental response function results in the Fredholm ...
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Measurement of the Beta-Decay Lifetime of Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons.
... to beta decays plus losses due to wall ...neutron beta-decay lifetime can be separated from wall interactions by varying the geometry of the trap, typically the surface area to volume ratio [53, 67, ...
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Realistic shell model description of beta decay
... To further check the reliability of our approach and in- vestigate the renormalization effects in different mass re- gions, we have carried out realistic SM calculations for other nuclei, which are also candidates for ...
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Excitation and Ionization of 6Li ions following beta-decay of 6He.
... Before any calculations were done, the first step was to account for this modification in the programs. Luckily, the programs which created the initial 6 He wave function and the final 6 Li + pseudospectra, incorporated ...
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