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New result for the neutron $\beta$-asymmetry parameter $A_0$ from UCNA

Nuclear Experiment 2018-08-15 v2

Abstract

The neutron β\beta-decay asymmetry parameter A0A_0 defines the correlation between the spin of the neutron and the momentum of the emitted electron, which determines λ=gAgV\lambda=\frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}, the ratio of the axial-vector to vector weak coupling constants. The UCNA Experiment, located at the Ultracold Neutron facility at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, is the first to measure such a correlation coefficient using ultracold neutrons (UCN). Following improvements to the systematic uncertainties and increased statistics, we report the new result A0=0.12054(44)stat(68)systA_0 = -0.12054(44)_{\mathrm{stat}}(68)_{\mathrm{syst}} which yields λgAgV=1.2783(22)\lambda\equiv \frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}=-1.2783(22). Combination with the previous UCNA result and accounting for correlated systematic uncertainties produces A0=0.12015(34)stat(63)systA_0=-0.12015(34)_{\mathrm{stat}}(63)_{\mathrm{syst}} and λgAgV=1.2772(20)\lambda\equiv \frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}=-1.2772(20).

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@article{arxiv.1712.00884,
  title  = {New result for the neutron $\beta$-asymmetry parameter $A_0$ from UCNA},
  author = {M. A. -P. Brown and E. B. Dees and E. Adamek and B. Allgeier and M. Blatnik and T. J. Bowles and L. J. Broussard and R. Carr and S. Clayton and C. Cude-Woods and S. Currie and X. Ding and B. W. Filippone and A. Garcia and P. Geltenbort and S. Hasan and K. P. Hickerson and J. Hoagland and R. Hong and G. E. Hogan and A. T. Holley and T. M. Ito and A. Knecht and C. -Y. Liu and J. Liu and M. Makela and J. W. Martin and D. Melconian and M. P. Mendenhall and S. D. Moore and C. L. Morris and S. Nepal and N. Nouri and R. W. Pattie, and A. Perez-Galvan and D. G. Phillips and R. Picker and M. L. Pitt and B. Plaster and J. C. Ramsey and R. Rios and D. J. Salvat and A. Saunders and W. Sondheim and S. J. Seestrom and S. Sjue and S. Slutsky and X. Sun and C. Swank and G. Swift and E. Tatar and R. B. Vogelaar and B. VornDick and Z. Wang and J. Wexler and T. Womack and C. Wrede and A. R. Young and B. A. Zeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00884},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures, updated to as-published version