Opportunities and Open Questions in Modern Beta Decay

L Hayen - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
For well over half a century, precision studies of neutron and nuclear β decays have been at
the forefront of searches for exotic electroweak physics. Recent advances in nuclear ab initio …

Improved limits on Fierz interference using asymmetry measurements from the Ultracold Neutron Asymmetry (UCNA) experiment

X Sun, E Adamek, B Allgeier, Y Bagdasarova… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
The Ultracold Neutron Asymmetry (UCNA) experiment was designed to measure the β-
decay asymmetry parameter, A 0, for free neutron decay. In the experiment, polarized …

[HTML][HTML] Vertical time-of-flight spectroscopy of ultracold neutrons

T Neulinger, H Filter, O Zimmer - … and Methods in Physics Research Section …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper describes the mathematical basis for analysis of vertical time-of-flight (TOF)
measurements with ultracold neutrons (UCN). In contrast to conventional horizontal TOF …

A Polarimetry Measurement for the Nab Experiment

C Hendrus - 2023 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
The Nab Experiment aims to use the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab
to measure two parameters associated with the kinematics of the beta decay of free …

[图书][B] Measurements of Beyond Standard Model Interactions with the UCNA and nEDM@ SNS Experiments

X Sun - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) are neutrons that have been cooled such that their kinetic energy
is on the order of their gravitational potential energy. Experimentally, ultracold neutrons are …

SENSITIVITY OF ELECTRON-PROTON COINCIDENCE ASYMMETRIES IN NEUTRON BETA-DECAY TO SCALAR AND TENSOR INTERACTIONS

SC Nepal - 2020 - uknowledge.uky.edu
We study the combined sensitivity of measurements of electron-proton coincidence
asymmetries in polarized neutron beta-decay together with a measurement of the electron …