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A new critical survey is presented of all half-life, decay-energy and branching-ratio measurements related to 20 0+ to 0+ beta decays. Compared with our last review, there are numerous improvements: First, we have added 27 recently…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-06-30 J. C. Hardy , I. S. Towner

In this paper we show that the proton-neutron residual interaction can play an important role in the reliability of calculated $\beta$-decay half-lives. It may also improve the prediction power of the quasiparticle random phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Jameel-Un Nabi , Mavra Ishfaq

We improve the current predictions of the standard model for neutron beta decay observables and compare them with the currently available ones. Next we study their implications in the possible detection of new physics. We discuss where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Garcia , J. L. Garcia-Luna

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…

Spin polarization and entanglement are utilized by the BESIII experiment to learn more about the production and decay properties of hyperon-antihyperon pairs in a series of recent analyses of its unprecedented datasets at the $J/\psi$ and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-28 Viktor Thorén

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), $\beta$…

The measurement of the beta asymmetry parameter in nuclear beta decay is a potentially very sensitive tool to search for non V-A components in the charge-changing weak interaction. To reach the required precision (percent level) all effects…

There have been suggestions to measure atomic parity nonconservation (PNC) along an isotopic chain, by taking ratios of observables in order to cancel complicated atomic structure effects. Precise atomic PNC measurements could make a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. J. Pollock , E. N. Fortson , L. Wilets

Parity violating electron nucleus scattering is a clean and powerful tool for measuring the spatial distributions of neutrons in nuclei with unprecedented accuracy. Parity violation arises from the interference of electromagnetic and weak…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. J. Horowitz , S. J. Pollock , P. A. Souder , R. Michaels

A new measurement of the neutron $\beta$-decay asymmetry $A_0$ has been carried out by the UCNA collaboration using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN) from the solid deuterium UCN source at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE).…

We study the fate of algebraic decay of correlations in a harmonically trapped two-dimensional degenerate Bose gas. The analysis is inspired by recent experiments on ultracold atoms where power-law correlations have been observed despite…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-14 Igor Boettcher , Markus Holzmann

Beta-decay properties of neutron-rich Ca, Ti, and Cr isotopes are studied within a deformed proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation. The underlying mean field is described self-consistently from deformed Skyrme Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-21 P. Sarriguren , A. Algora , G. Kiss

The MORA (Matter's Origin from the RadioActivity of trapped and oriented ions) project aims at measuring with unprecedented precision the D correlation in the nuclear beta decay of trapped and oriented ions. The D correlation offers the…

The final analysis of the experiment determining both components of the transverse polarization of electrons ($\sigma_{T_{1}}$, $\sigma_{T_{2}}$) emitted in the $\beta$-decay of polarized, free neutrons is presented. The T-odd, P-odd…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Kozela , G. Ban , A. Białek , K. Bodek , P. Gorel , K. Kirch , St. Kistryn , O. Naviliat-Cuncic , N. Severijns , E. Stephan , J. Zejma

Scalar and tensor interactions were once competitors to the now well-established V-A structure of the Standard Model weak interactions. We revisit these interactions and survey constraints from low-energy probes (neutron, nuclear, and pion…

The turn of the 21st century witnessed a sudden shift in our fundamental understanding of particle physics. While the minimal Standard Model predicts that neutrino masses are exactly zero, the discovery of neutrino oscillations proved the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-05-21 Joseph A. Formaggio , André Luiz C. de Gouvêa , R. G. Hamish Robertson

We assess the ability of future neutron beta decay measurements of up to O(10^{-4}) precision to falsify the standard model, particularly the V-A law, and to identify the dynamics beyond it. To do this, we employ a maximum likelihood…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-02 S. Gardner , B. Plaster

The precision of double-beta ($\beta\beta$) decay experimental half-lives and their uncertainties is reevaluated. A complementary analysis of the decay uncertainties indicates deficiencies due to small size of statistical samples, and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-22 B. Pritychenko

An entangled state prepared in a decoherence free sub-space together with a Ramsey type measurement can probe parity violation in heavy alkali ions like Ba+ or Ra+. Here we propose an experiment with Ba+ as an example to measure the small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 P. Mandal , M. Mukherjee

The interest, the status and the perspectives of various experiments in neutron and nuclear beta-decay, muon-decay and pion-decays are discussed. The talk is segmented into a discussion of the decay-rates and of the energy-spectra and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jules Deutsch