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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 752, 18 April 2005, Pages 101-108
Nuclear Physics A

CVC tests and CKM unitarity

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The study of superallowed nuclear β-decay currently provides the most precise and convincing confirmation of the conservation of the vector current (CVC) and is a key component of the most demanding available test of the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, a basic pillar of the Electroweak Standard Model. The status of these fundamental studies is summarized and recent work described.

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG03-93ER40773 and by the Robert A. Welch Foundation.

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