Precise measurement of the angular correlation parameter aβν in the β decay of 35Ar with LPCTrap

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Title: Precise measurement of the angular correlation parameter aβν in the β decay of 35Ar with LPCTrap
Authors: Fabian X., Ban G., Boussaïd R., Breitenfeldt M., Couratin C., Delahaye P., Durand D., Finlay P., Fléchard X., Guillon B., Lemière Y., Leredde A., Liénard E., Méry A., Naviliat-Cuncic O., Pierre E., Porobic T., Quéméner G., Rodríguez D., Severijns N., Thomas J.C., Van Gorp S.
Source: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 66, p 08002 (2014)
Publisher Information: EDP Sciences, 2014.
Publication Year: 2014
Collection: LCC:Physics
Subject Terms: Physics, QC1-999
More Details: Precise measurements in the β decay of the 35Ar nucleus enable to search for deviations from the Standard Model (SM) in the weak sector. These measurements enable either to check the CKM matrix unitarity or to constrain the existence of exotic currents rejected in the V-A theory of the SM. For this purpose, the β-ν angular correlation parameter, aβν, is inferred from a comparison between experimental and simulated recoil ion time-of-flight distributions following the quasi-pure Fermi transition of 35Ar1+ ions confined in the transparent Paul trap of the LPCTrap device at GANIL. During the last experiment, 1.5×106 good events have been collected, which corresponds to an expected precision of less than 0.5% on the aβν value. The required simulation is divided between the use of massive GPU parallelization and the GEANT4 toolkit for the source-cloud kinematics and the tracking of the decay products.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2100-014X
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20146608002
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/3e4becb4e13d40deb26269ea528e8673
Accession Number: edsdoj.3e4becb4e13d40deb26269ea528e8673
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:2100014X
DOI:10.1051/epjconf/20146608002
Published in:EPJ Web of Conferences
Language:English