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Superallowed $\beta$-decay studies provide some of the best constraints on the possibility of additional quark generations, as well as limits on exotic currents in the weak interaction. The three experimental quantities that are required…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-01 Kyle G. Leach , Jason D. Holt

A systematic study of the $\beta$-decay of neutron-deficient nuclei has been carried out and has provided spectroscopic information of importance for both nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. Following an overview of the most…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-23 S. E. A. Orrigo , B. Rubio , W. Gelletly

A complete survey is presented of all half-life and branching-ratio measurements related to the isospin T = 1/2 mirror beta transitions ranging from 3He to 83Mo. No measurements are ignored, although some are rejected for cause. Using the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Severijns , M. Tandecki , T. Phalet , I. S. Towner

The aim of the paper is to show that the nowadays experimental data from superallowed nuclear and neutron $\beta$ decays, and from leptonic and semileptonic decays allow the finding of the most probable numerical form of the KM matrix, as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-01 Petre Dita

Our study employs the nuclear shell model to systematically compute the half-lives of $\beta$ -decay for nuclei in the mass range of $A = 18-39$, encompassing the majority of $sd$ shell nuclei. This analysis utilizes the USDB and SDNN…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Surender , Vikas Kumar , Praveen C. Srivastava

The superallowed beta-decay rates that provide stringent constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics are affected by nuclear structure effects through isospin-breaking corrections. The self-consistent isospin- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-05 W. Satula , J. Dobaczewski , W. Nazarewicz , M. Rafalski

\textbf{Background}: Superallowed $0^+ \rightarrow 0^+$ $\beta$ decays of isospin $T=2$ nuclides can be used to test theoretical isospin symmetry breaking corrections applied to extract the CKM matrix element $V_{ud}$ from $T = 0,1$ decays…

The experimental determination of V_{ud} from neutron beta decay requires accurate values of the neutron lifetime and the ratio of the weak axial-vector to vector coupling constants of the nucleon. The latter is derived from measurements of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-02-19 Oliver Zimmer

In the present work, beta-decay properties such as $\log ft$ values and half-lives have been systematically studied corresponding to Ba isotopes using large-scale shell-model calculations. An extensive comparison of beta decay results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-11 Shweta Sharma , Praveen C. Srivastava

The double-beta (2$\beta$)-decay is the rarest nuclear physics process, and its experimental half-lives (T$_{1/2}$) exceed the age of the Universe from nine to fourteen orders of magnitude. Double-beta decay was observed, and its half-life…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-26 B. Pritychenko , V. I. Tretyak

The transition form factors describing the semileptonic decays of heavy pseudoscalar mesons are investigated within a relativistic constituent quark model formulated on the light-front. For the first time, the form factors are calculated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 I. L. Grach , I. M. Narodetskii , S. Simula

A detailed study of $\alpha$-clusters decay is exhibited by incorporating crucial microscopic nuclear structure information into the estimations of half-life and preformation factor. For the first time, using the k-cross validation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 G. Saxena , P. K. Sharma , Prafulla Saxena

We examine the effect of nuclear deformation on the calculated $\beta$-decay half-lives of 55 neutron-rich nuclei. The deformation values were computed using DD-PC1 and DD-ME2 interactions in the Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model. Yet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-29 Jameel-Un Nabi , Tuncay Bayram , Wajeeha Khalid , Arslan Mehmood , Alper Köseoğlu

This paper investigates the beta decay of nuclei within the sd model space, encompassing the $0d_{3/2}$, $0d_{5/2}$, and $1s_{1/2}$ shells. We comprehensively analyze their decay characteristics, including the half-life, $logft$ value, Q…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-25 Surender Siwach

For well over half a century, precision studies of neutron and nuclear $\beta$ decays have been at the forefront of searches for exotic electroweak physics. Recent advances in nuclear ab initio theory and the widespread use of effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Leendert Hayen

In the present work, we report a comprehensive theoretical study of the $\log ft$ values for the allowed and forbidden $\beta^-$ decay transitions of $^{46}$K and $^{47}$K corresponding to recently available experimental data from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Priyanka Choudhary , Anil Kumar , Praveen C. Srivastava , Toshio Suzuki

"Ultra-low" Q value $\beta$ decays are referred to as such due to their low decay energies of less than $\sim$1 keV. Such a low energy decay is possible when the parent nucleus decays into an excited state in the daughter, with an energy…

Study of the neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evaluate the nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Vogel

Neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is related to many fundamental concepts in nuclear and particle physics beyond the standard model. Currently there are many experiments searching for this weak process. An accurate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 L. S. Song , J. M. Yao , P. Ring , J. Meng

We propose a semi-empirical formula (SEF) for calculating the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for two-neutrino double-beta decay. The SEF's dependence on the proton and neutron numbers, the pairing, isospin, and deformation properties of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Ovidiu Niţescu , Fedor Šimkovic