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Branching ratio of the super-allowed beta decay of 10C

Nuclear Experiment 2020-06-24 v1

Abstract

In an experiment performed at the ISOLDE facility of CERN, the super-allowed beta-decay branching ratio of 10C was determined with a high-precision single-crystal germanium detector. In order to evaluate the contribution of the pile-up of two 511 keV gamma quanta to one of the gamma-ray peaks of interest at 1021.7 keV, data were not only taken with 10C, but also with a 19Ne beam. The final result for the super-allowed decay branch is 1.4638(50)%, in agreement with the average from literature.

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@article{arxiv.2004.02559,
  title  = {Branching ratio of the super-allowed beta decay of 10C},
  author = {B. Blank and M. Aouadi and P. Ascher and M. Gerbaux and J. Giovinazzo and S. Grevy and T. Kurtukian Nieto and M. R. Dunlop and R. Dunlop and A. T. Laffoley and G. F. Grinyer and P. Finlay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02559},
  year   = {2020}
}