Improved calculation of the isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi {beta} decay
- Cyclotron Institute, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843 (United States)
We report new shell-model calculations of the isospin-symmetry-breaking correction {delta}{sub C} to superallowed 0{sup +}{yields}0{sup +} nuclear {beta} decay. The most important improvement is the inclusion of core orbitals, which are demonstrated to have a significant impact on the mismatch in the radial wave functions of the parent and daughter states. We determine which core orbitals are important to include from an examination of measured spectroscopic factors in single-nucleon pickup reactions. In addition, where new sets of effective interactions have become available since our last calculation, we now include them; this leads to small changes in {delta}{sub NS} as well. We also examine the new radiative-correction calculation by Marciano and Sirlin and, by a simple reorganization, show that it is possible to preserve the conventional separation into a nucleus-independent ''inner'' radiative term, {delta}{sub R}{sup V}, and a nucleus-dependent ''outer'' term, {delta}{sub R}{sup '}. We tabulate the new values for {delta}{sub C},{delta}{sub NS}, and {delta}{sub R}{sup '} for 20 superallowed transitions, including the 13 currently well-studied cases. With these new correction terms, the corrected Ft values for the 13 cases are statistically consistent with one another, and the anomalousness of the {sup 46}V result disappears. These new calculations lead to a lower average Ft value and a higher value for V{sub ud}. The sum of squares of the top-row elements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix now agrees exactly with unitarity.
- OSTI ID:
- 21068153
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 77, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.77.025501; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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