The WITCH Experiment: towards weak interactions studies. Status and prospects
Nuclear Experiment
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Primary goal of the WITCH experiment is to test the Standard Model for a possible ad-mixture of a scalar or tensor type interaction in beta-decay. This information will be inferred from the shape of the recoil energy spectrum. The experimental set-up was completed and is under intensive commissioning at ISOLDE (CERN). It combines a Penning trap to store the ions and a retardation spectrometer to probe the recoil ion energy. A brief overview of the WITCH set-up and the results of commissioning tests performed until now are presented. Finally, perspectives of the physics program are reviewed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0701007,
title = {The WITCH Experiment: towards weak interactions studies. Status and prospects},
author = {V. Yu. Kozlov and M. Beck and S. Coeck and M. Herbane and I. S. Kraev and N. Severijns and F. Wauters and P. Delahaye and A. Herlert and F. Wenander and D. Zakoucky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0701007},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
TCP06 Conference Proceedings, accepted for publication in Hyperfine Interactions