Neutron decay correlations in the Nab experiment

40th Symposium on Nuclear Physics 2017

Broussard, L.J.^1 ; Alarcon, R.^2 ; Baeßler, S.^1,3 ; Barrón Palos, L.^4 ; Birge, N.^5 ; Bode, T.^6 ; Bowman, J.D.^1 ; Brunst, T.^6 ; Calarco, J.R.^7 ; Caylor, J.^5 ; Chupp, T.^8 ; Cianciolo, V.^1 ; Crawford, C.^9 ; Dodson, G.W.^1 ; Dubois, J.^3 ; Fan, W.^3 ; Farrar, W.^3 ; Fomin, N.^5 ; Frle, E.^3 ; Fry, J.^3 ; Gericke, M.T.^10 ; Glück, F.^11 ; Greene, G.L.^1,5 ; Grzywacz, R.K.^5 ; Gudkov, V.^12 ; Hendrus, C.^8 ; Hersman, F.W.^7 ; Ito, T.^13 ; Li, H.^3 ; Macsai, N.^10 ; Makela, M.F.^13 ; Mammei, J.^10 ; Mammei, R.^14 ; Martin, J.^14 ; Martinez, M.^2 ; McGaughey, P.L.^13 ; Mertens, S.^6 ; Mirabal-Martinez, J.^13 ; Mueller, P.^1 ; Page, S.A.^10 ; Penttilä, S.I.^1 ; Picker, R.^15 ; Plaster, B.^9 ; Poani, D.^3 ; Radford, D.C.^1 ; Ramsey, J.^13 ; Rykaczewski, K.P.^1 ; Salas-Bacci, A.^3 ; Scott, E.M.^5 ; Sjue, S.K.L.^13 ; Smith, A.^3 ; Smith, E.^13 ; Sprow, A.^9 ; Stevens, E.^3 ; Wexler, J.^16 ; Whitehead, R.^5 ; Wilburn, W.S.^13 ; Young, A.R.^16 ; Zeck, B.A.^13,16

Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge

TN

37831, United States^1

Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe

AZ

85287, United States^2

Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

VA

22904, United States^3

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

04510, Mexico^4

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

TN

37996, United States^5

Max Planck Institute for Physics, Föhringer Ring 6, Munich

80805, Germany^6

Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham

NH

03824, United States^7

Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

MI

48109, United States^8

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington

KY

40506, United States

(10) Department of Physics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

MB

R3T 2N2, Canada

(11) IEKP, Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Kaiserstraße 12, Karlsruhe

76131, Germany

(12) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia

SC

29208, United States

(13) Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos

NM

87545, United States

(14) Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg

MB

R3B 2E9, Canada

(15) TRIUMF, Vancouver

BC

V6T 2A3, Canada

(16) Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

NC

27695, United States^9

关键词: Beta particles;    Neutron decays;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/876/1/012005/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/876/1/012005

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Nab experiment will measure the correlation a between the momenta of the beta particle and antineutrino in neutron decay as well as the Fierz term b which distorts the beta spectrum.