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A high energy muon collider naturally produces a collimated beam of neutrinos for a fixed-target experiment at a dedicated far-forward facility. The high intensity and energy of the beam makes it ideally suited for astonishingly precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 David Marzocca , Francesco Montagno , Manuel Morales-Alvarado , Andrea Wulzer

Precision beta decay experiments serve as powerful probes of physics beyond the Standard Model, enabling stringent tests of fundamental symmetries of nature. In particular, these experiments primarily focus on precise determinations of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Grigor H. Sargsyan , Garrett B. King , Ayala Glick-Magid , Chien-Yeah Seng

The Nab experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, aims to measure the beta-antineutrino angular correlation following neutron $\beta$ decay to an anticipated precision of approximately 0.1\%. The proton momentum is reconstructed…

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 present the first combined analysis of the statistical rate function f in superallowed beta decays with ab initio calculations and data. We focus on C10 to 10B, 14O to 14N and 26mAl to 26Mg, all of which are important channels for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Bingcheng He , Mikhail Gorchtein , Matthias Heinz , Ben Ohayon , Lucas Platter , Chien-Yeah Seng

Large-volume neutrino experiments are ideal for testing boosted dark matter (BDM) scenarios. We propose, for the first time, an approach to utilize knockout neutrons by detecting de-excitation $\gamma$ rays and coincident captured neutrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Koun Choi , Jong-Chul Park

High-precision determinations of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements are essential probes of physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Current precision tests show a deficit in the first row unitarity relation. At the current…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-07 Ramón Merino

One of the sensitive probes of physics beyond the standard model is the test of the unitarity of the Cabbibo-Kobyashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. Current analysis of the first row is based on $|V_{ud}|$ from fourteen superallowed $0^+ \to 0^+$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-05-08 Jun-Sik Yoo , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Rajan Gupta , Santanu Mondal , Boram Yoon

In the Standard Model, the charged current of the weak interaction is governed by a unitary quark mixing matrix that also leads to CP violation. Measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements is essential to searches for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-08 N. E. Adam

Of the many extensions to the standard model that could possibly generate neutrino mass, most necessitate the neutrino being a Majorana fermion. If this is the case, the rare process of neutrinoless double beta decay is predicted with half…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Ethan Brown , Kelly Odgers , Adam Tidball

The quark Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix is a fundamental part of the Standard Model accurately determined to fit world data analysis. In this paper the CKM matrix elements are high accurately rendered via simple compact…

General Physics · Physics 2009-10-12 E. M. Lipmanov

Searches of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) performed at low energy frontiers are complementary to experiments carried out at high energy colliders. Among the methods for testing the SM and beyond at low energies are the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-08 D. Rozpedzik , K. Bodek , K. Lojek , M. Perkowski , L. De Keukeleere , L. Hayen , N. Severijns , A. Kozela

Superallowed $0^+ \to 0^+$ nuclear beta decay provides a direct measure of the weak vector coupling constant, $\GV$. We survey current world data on the nine accurately determined transitions of this type, which range from the decay of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 J. C. Hardy , I. S. Towner

We point out that the measurements of the CP asymmetries in neutral B-decays together with a measurement of $Br(K_L\to \pi^\circ\nu\bar\nu)$ and the known value of $\mid V_{us}\mid $ can determine {\it all} elements of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 A. J. Buras

We review the current status of precision measurements in allowed nuclear beta decay, including neutron decay, with emphasis on their potential to look for new physics beyond the standard electroweak model. The experimental results are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Severijns , M. Beck , O. Naviliat-Cuncic

The abBA collaboration proposes to conduct a comprehensive program of precise measurements of neutron $\beta$-decay coefficients $a$ (the correlation between the neutrino momentum and the decay electron momentum), $b$ (the electron energy…

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

Measurements by various international groups of researchers determine the strength of the weak interaction of the neutron, which gives us unique information on the question of the quark mixing. Neutron decay experiments now challenge the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-23 Hartmut Abele

The measured $ft$-values for superallowed $0^{+} \to 0^{+}$ nuclear $\beta$-decay can be used to obtain the value of the vector coupling constant and thus to test the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. An essential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 I. S. Towner , J. C. Hardy

New developments in both the theories and experiments related to the extraction of the top-row Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements $V_{ud}$ and $V_{us}$ led to a series of new anomalies, for instance the apparent violation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-25 Chien-Yeah Seng

Superallowed $0^+\rightarrow 0^+$ transitions between $T=1$ nuclei have been a perfect avenue avenue for determining the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ud}$, which imposes powerful constraints on physics beyond the Standard…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Chien-Yeah Seng