Analog-antianalog isospin mixing in $^{47}$K $\beta^-$ decay
Abstract
We have measured the isospin mixing of the I= 1/2 E=2.599 MeV state in nearly-doubly-magic Ca with the isobaric analog 1/2 state of K. Using the TRIUMF atom trap for decay, we have measured a nonzero asymmetry of the progeny Ca with respect to the initial K spin polarization, which together with the asymmetry implies a nonzero ratio of Fermi to Gamow-Teller matrix elements = 0.0980.037 for the transition. Interpreting as mixing between this state and the isobaric analog state implies a Coulomb matrix element magnitude 101 37 keV. This relatively large matrix element supports a model from the literature of analog-antianalog isospin mixing, which predicts large matrix elements in cases involving excess neutrons over protons occupying more than one major shell. The result supports pursuing a search for time-reversal odd, parity-even, isovector interactions using a correlation in K decay.
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@article{arxiv.2405.02742,
title = {Analog-antianalog isospin mixing in $^{47}$K $\beta^-$ decay},
author = {Brian Kootte and H. Gallop and C. Luktuke and J. C. McNeil and A. Gorelov and D. G. Melconian and J. Klimo and B. M. Vargas-Calderon. J. A. Behr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02742},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 (two-column) pages, 7 figures. Reprint of version accepted by Physical Review C Letters May 3, 2024 (proof corrections included, except we retain non-Letter features: section headers; \frac in inline equations; untruncated reference authors)