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Improved Limit on Tensor Currents in the Weak Interaction from Li 8 β Decay

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada); Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), Yavne (Israel). Soreq Nuclear Research Centre (Soreq NRC)
  6. Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
  7. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
  8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
  9. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  10. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  11. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
  12. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany)
  13. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
  14. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  15. Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
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Here, the electroweak interaction in the standard model is described by a pure vector-axial-vector structure, though any Lorentz-invariant component could contribute. In this Letter, we present the most precise measurement of tensor currents in the low-energy regime by examining the $$β-\bar{ν}$$ correlation of trapped 8Li ions with the Beta-decay Paul Trap. We find $$a_{β\barν}$$ = - 0.3325 ± 0.0013stat ± 0.0019syst at 1σ for the case of coupling to right-handed neutrinos (CT = -C$$^{'}_{T}$$), which is consistent with the standard model prediction.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); USDOE; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725; AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1868858
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1877467
OSTI ID: 1960730
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-823604; 1036507
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 20 Vol. 128; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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