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Several new proton-proton parity violation experiments are presently either being performed or are being prepared for execution in the near future. Similarly, a new measurement of the parity-violating gamma-ray asymmetry in polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Willem T. H. van Oers

The angular correlation of the electrons in the neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu2\beta$) is calculated taking into account the nucleon recoil, the $S$ and $P$-waves for the electrons and the electron mass using a general Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 A. Ali , A. V. Borisov , D. V. Zhuridov

Radiative corrections are calculated for antineutrino proton quasielastic scattering, neutrino deuteron scattering, and the asymmetry of polarised neutron beta decay from which $G_{A}/G_{V}$ is determined. A particular emphasis is given to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Kubota , M. Fukugita

This paper recalls the main achievements of the nTRV experiment which measured two components of the transverse polarization ($\sigma_{T_{1}}$, $\sigma_{T_{2}}$) of electrons emitted in the $\beta$-decay of polarized, free neutrons and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-06-08 K. Bodek , A. Kozela

We have examined the physics and the experimental feasibility at the AGS of various kaon decay processes in which the polarization of a muon in the final state is measured. Valuable information on CP violation, the CKM matrix or new physics…

The neutron $\beta$-decay asymmetry parameter $A_0$ defines the correlation between the spin of the neutron and the momentum of the emitted electron, which determines $\lambda=\frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}$, the ratio of the axial-vector to vector…

Measurements of the angles and sides of the unitarity triangle and of the rates of rare B meson decays are crucial for the precise determination of Standard Model parameters and are sensitive to the presence of new physics particles in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-05 Francesco Forti

Precision measurements of observables in neutron $\beta$-decay are used to test the Standard Model description of the weak interaction and search for evidence of new physics. The Nab experiment at the Fundamental Neutron Physics Beamline at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-12 Francisco M. Gonzalez , Jin Ha Choi , Himal Acharya , Skylar Clymer , Andrew Hagemeier , David G. Mathews , August Mendelsohn , Austin Nelsen , Hitesh Rahangdale , Love Richburg , Ricardo Alarcon , Ariella Atencio , Stefan Baeßler , Thomas Bailey , Noah Birge , Dennis Borissenko , Michael Bowler , Leah J. Broussard , Albert T. Bryant , Jimmy Caylor , Tim Chupp , Christopher Crawford , R. Alston Croley , Micah Cruz , George Dodson , Wenjiang Fan , Deion Fellers , Nadia Fomin , Emil Frlež , Matthew Frost , Jason Fry , Duncan Fuehne , Michael T. Gericke , Michelle Gervais , Corey Gilbert , Ferenc Glück , Rebecca Godri , Geoff L. Greene , William Greene , Josh Hamblen , Paul Harmston , Leendert Hayen , Carter Hedinger , Chelsea Hendrus , Sean Hollander , Kavish Imam , Erik B. Iverson , Aaron Jezghani , Chenyang Jiang , Huangxing Li , Nick Macsai , Mark Makela , Russell Mammei , Ricky Marshall , Madelyn Martinez , Mark McCrea , Pat McGaughey , Sean McGovern , David McLaughlin , Jacqueline Mirabal-Martinez , Paul Mueller , Andrew Mullins , William Musk , Jordan O'Kronley , Seppo I. Penttilä , D. Elliot Perryman , Josh Pierce , Jason A. Pioquinto , Dinko Počanić , Hunter Presley , John Ramsey , Glenn Randall , Zachary Raney , Jackson Ricketts , Grant Riley , Americo Salas-Bacci , Sepehr Samiei , Alexander Saunders , Wolfgang Schreyer , E. Mae Scott , Thomas Shelton , Aryaman Singh , Alexander Smith , Erick Smith , Eric Stevens , R. J. Taylor , Leonard Tinius , Isaiah Wallace , Jonathan Wexler , W. Scott Wilburn , A. R. Young , B. Zeck

On the basis of revisions of some of the systematic errors, we reanalyzed the electron-antineutrino angular correlation ($a$ coefficient) in free neutron decay inferred from the recoil energy spectrum of the protons which are detected in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-19 M. Beck , W. Heil , C. Schmidt , S. Baeßler , F. Glück , G. Konrad , U. Schmidt

We analyse the electron--energy and angular distribution of the neutron beta decay with polarized neutron and electron and unpolarized proton, calculated in Phys. Rev. C 95, 055502 (2017) within the Standard Model (SM), by taking into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 A. N. Ivanov , R. Höllwieser , N. I. Troitskaya , M. Wellenzohn , Ya. A. Berdnikov

Angular asymmetries have been measured in polarized Z0 decays to bbg collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC. A high purity bbg event sample is selected by utilizing B lifetime information given by the SLD CCD pixel vertex detector and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 SLD Collaboration , K. Abe

A precise measurement of the direct CP violating charge asymmetry parameter $A_g$ in $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm\pi^+\pi^-$ decays by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN SPS is presented. The experiment has been designed not to be limited by systematic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Goudzovski

For precise measurements with polarized neutrons high efficient spin-manipulation is required. We developed several neutron optical elements suitable for a new sophisticated setup, i.e., DC spin-turners and Larmor-accelerators which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hermann Geppert , Tobias Denkmayr , Stephan Sponar , Hartmut Lemmel , Yuji Hasegawa

We have examined the physics and the experimental feasibility of studying various kaon decay processes in which the polarization of a muon in the final state is measured. Valuable information on CP violation, the quark mixing (CKM) matrix,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Milind V. Diwan , Hong Ma

The modes of decay for the even-even isotopes of superheavy nuclei of Z = 118 and 120 with neutron number $160 \leq N \leq 204$ are investigated in the framework of the axially deformed relativistic mean field model. The asymmetry parameter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-20 M. Bhuyan

Angular distributions of the decay $\mathrm{B}^0 \to \mathrm{K}^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ are studied using a sample of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-19 CMS Collaboration

We present a calculation of full one-loop radiative corrections, including the constant term, to the asymmetry parameter of polarised neutron beta decay. This gives the radiative correction to the axial coupling constant $g_A$ extracted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Masataka Fukugita , Takahiro Kubota

The Belle Collaboration has recently measured the complete set of angular coefficient functions for the exclusive decays $\bar B \to D^* (D \pi) \ell \bar \nu_\ell$, with $\ell=e,\,\mu$, in four bins of the parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-26 Pietro Colangelo , Fulvia De Fazio , Francesco Loparco , Nicola Losacco

We have obtained the decay asymmetry parameters in non-mesonic weak decay of polarized Lambda-hypernuclei by measuring the proton asymmetry. The polarized Lambda-hypernuclei, 5_Lambda-He, 12_Lambda-C, and 11_Lambda-B, were produced in high…

Parity violating elastic electron-nucleus scattering provides an accurate and model independent measurement of neutron densities, because the $Z^0$ couples primarily to neutrons. Coulomb distortion corrections to the parity violating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 C. J. Horowitz