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A new technique has been developed at TRIUMF's TITAN facility to perform in-trap decay spectroscopy. The aim of this technique is to eventually measure weak electron capture branching ratios (ECBRs) and by this to consequently determine GT…

Scattering measurements with incident linearly polarized $\gamma$ rays provide information on spins, parities, and $\gamma$-ray multipolarity mixing coefficients, and, therefore, on the nuclear matrix elements involved in the transitions.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-06-18 Christian Iliadis , Udo Friman-Gayer

An in-trap decay spectroscopy setup has been developed and constructed for use with the TITAN facility at TRIUMF. The goal of this device is to observe weak electron-capture (EC) branching ratios for the odd-odd intermediate nuclei in the…

A numerical model based on hydrodynamic approach has been developed to emulate the device dynamics of active target Time Projection Chamber which is utilized for studying nuclear reaction through three dimensional tracking of concerned low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-03 Pralay Kumar Das , Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

The Laser-wire will be an essential diagnostic tool at the International Linear Collider. It uses a finely focussed laser beam to measure the transverse profile of electron bunches by detecting the Compton-scattered photons (or degraded…

We discuss the main limitations of past neutrino scattering experiments and possible ways to address them in a next-generation program of precision measurements of fundamental interactions with (anti)neutrinos. A reduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-15 R. Petti

The MUGAST-AGATA-VAMOS set-up at GANIL combines the MUGAST highly-segmented silicon array with the state-of-the-art AGATA array and the large acceptance VAMOS spectrometer. The mechanical and electronics integration copes with the…

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

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope based on a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) for imaging cosmic \g-rays in the energy band of 0.2-20 MeV. The detector, with 400 cm$^2$ area and 7 cm drift gap, is filled with high…

We report on the optical commissioning of the high power laser beam circulator (LBC) for the high brightness Compton {\gamma}-ray source Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics. Tests aiming at demonstrating the optical…

In recent years a number of correlation measurements in nuclear $\beta$ decay have been performed reaching a precision of the order of 1\% and below and it is expected that even higher precision will be reached in the near future. At these…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-01-28 N. Severijns , L. Hayen , V. De Leebeeck , S. Vanlangendonck , K. Bodek , D. Rozpedzik , I. S. Towner

We used the 8$\pi$ $\gamma$-ray spectrometer at the TRIUMF-ISAC radiocative ion beam facility to obtain high-precision branching ratios for $^{19}$Ne $\beta^+$ decay to excited states in $^{19}$F. Together with other previous work, our…

Future long-baseline neutrino experiments will measure neutrino oscillation properties with unprecedented precision and will search for clear signatures of CP violation in the leptonic sector. Near detectors can measure the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Omar G. Miranda , Guadalupe Moreno-Granados , Celio A. Moura

LArIAT (Liquid Argon In A Testbeam) aims to characterize the response of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to the particles often seen as final-state products of ~1 GeV neutrino interactions in existing and planned detectors.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-04 William Foreman

An on-line beam position monitoring and regular beam stability tests are of utmost importance for the Quality Assurance (QA) of the patient treatment at any particle therapy facility. The Gantry$\hspace{0.5 mm}2$ at the Paul Scherrer…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 O. Actis , D. Meer , S. König

In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Tong Li , Xiao-Dong Ma , Michael A. Schmidt

We focus on the chiral Lagrangian couplings describing radiative corrections to weak semi-leptonic decays and relate them to the decay amplitude of a lepton, computed by Braaten and Li at one loop in the Standard Model. For this purpose, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Bachir Moussallam , Sebastien Descotes-Genon

We investigate prospects of building a future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment in China, including site selection, beam optimization and tau neutrino physics aspects. CP violation, non-unitary mixing and non-standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Jian Tang , Sampsa Vihonen , Yu Xu

The Beta-decay Paul Trap is an open-geometry, linear trap used to measure the decays of $^8$Li and $^8$B to search for a tensor contribution to the weak interaction. In the latest $^8$Li measurement of Burkey et al. (2022), $\beta$…

We introduce a recipe to estimate the low-energy scattering parameters of a quantum few-body system - scattering length, effective range, and shape parameter - by using only discrete state calculations. We place the system in an artificial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 D. V. Fedorov , A. M. Pedersen