Neutron decay correlations in the Nab experiment

Broussard, Leah Jacklyn; Alarcon, R.; Baeßler, Stefan; Barrón Palos, L.; Birge, N.; Bode, T.; Bowman, James David; Brunst, T.; Calarco, J. R.; Caylor, J.; Chupp, T.; Cianciolo, Vince; Crawford, C.; Dodson, G. W.; DuBois, J.; Fan, W.; Farrar, W.; Fomin, N.; Frlež, E.; Fry, J.; Gericke, M. T.; Glück, F.; Greene, G. L.; Grzywacz, Robert Kazimierz; Gudkov, V.; Hendrus, C.; Hersman, F. W.; Ito, T.; Li, H.; Macsai, N.; Makela, M. F.; Mammei, J.; Mammei, R.; Martin, J.; Martinez, M.; McGaughey, P. L.; Mertens, S.; Mirabal-Martinez, J.; Mueller, P.; Page, S. A.; Penttilä, Seppo I.; Picker, R.; Plaster, B.; Počanić, D.; Radford, D. C.; Ramsey, J.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; Salas-Bacci, A.; Scott, E. M.; Sjue, S. K.  L.; Smith, A.; Smith, E.; Sprow, A.; Stevens, E.; Wexler, J.; Whitehead, R.; Wilburn, W. S.; Young, A. R.; Zeck, B. A.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/876/1/012005

Title: Neutron decay correlations in the Nab experiment

Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/876/1/012005· OSTI ID:1479708

^[1]; Alarcon, R. ^[2]; Baeßler, Stefan ^[3]; Barrón Palos, L. ^[4]; Birge, N. ^[5]; Bode, T. ^[6];

^[1]; Brunst, T. ^[6]; Calarco, J. R. ^[7]; Caylor, J. ^[5]; Chupp, T. ^[8];

^[1]; Crawford, C. ^[9]; Dodson, G. W. ^[1]; DuBois, J. ^[10]; Fan, W. ^[10]; Farrar, W. ^[10]; Fomin, N. ^[5]; Frlež, E. ^[10]; Fry, J. ^[10] more »

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich (Germany)
Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
Universitat Karlsruhe (TH) (Germany). IEKP
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States) ; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
University of Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)

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.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396; FG02-03ER41258; FG02-97ER41042; SC0008107; SC0014622

OSTI ID:: 1479708

Journal Information:: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 876; ISSN 1742-6588

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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