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A Conserved Vector Current test using low energy beta-beams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We discuss the possibility of testing the weak currents and, in particular, the weak magnetism term through the measurement of the electron anti-neutrinos capture by protons at a low energy beta-beam facility. We analyze the sensitivity using both the total number of events and the angular distribution of the positrons emitted in a water Cerenkov detector. We show that the weak magnetism form factor might be determined with better than several percent accuracy using the angular distribution. This offers a new way of testing the Conserved Vector Current hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0603078,
  title  = {A Conserved Vector Current test using low energy beta-beams},
  author = {A. B. Balantekin and J. H. de Jesus and R. Lazauskas and C. Volpe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0603078},
  year   = {2008}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures