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Precision β − ν correlation measurements with the Beta-decay Paul Trap

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The Beta-decay Paul Trap (BPT) at Argonne National Laboratory has proven to be an extremely effective tool for high-precision tests of the Standard Model via measurements of the β − ν correlation in mass-8 isotopes. Using four double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSDs) backed by plastic scintillators and surrounding the ions confined by the BPT, the kinematics of the decays of the mirror nuclei lithium-8 and boron-8 are overdetermined when all charged decay products are measured. The most stringent low-energy limit on an intrinsic tensor current in the weak interaction was set using the BPT in 2015 (Sternberg, M.G., et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 182501 2015) utilizing trapped lithium-8. Since then, similar data for boron-8 and higher statistics data for lithium-8 have been collected and are currently being analyzed. With the elimination of radio-frequency (RF) pickup from the DSSDs and a detailed investigation of experimental systematic errors, the uncertainty is now dominated by the contribution from recoil-order terms in the decay rate. Our eventual goal is to limit tensor currents in the weak interaction with relative precision at or below 0.1%.

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We acknowledge Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada, App. No. 216974, the U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 [Argonne National Laboratory] and DE-AC52-07NA27344 [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory], National Science Foundation grant no. 1144082 and the Argonne National Laboratory ATLAS facility.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Mary T. Burkey, Guy Savard, Jeffrey Klimes, Jacob Pierce & Louis Varriano

  2. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA

    Mary T. Burkey, Guy Savard, Jason A. Clark, Daniel P. Burdette, Jeffrey Klimes, Rodney Orford, Jacob Pierce & Louis Varriano

  3. Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    Aaron Gallant, Nicholas D. Scielzo, Elizabeth Heckmaier, Kay Kolos, Stephen Padgett & Barbara S. Wang

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada

    Jason A. Clark & Kumar S. Sharma

  5. Soreq NRC, Yavne, 81800, Israel

    Tsviki Y. Hirsh

  6. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA

    Daniel P. Burdette & Jeffrey Klimes

  7. GSI, Heidelberg University, Grabengasse 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    Jeffrey Klimes

  8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Scott T. Marley & Graeme E. Morgan

  9. Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2T8, Canada

    Rodney Orford

  10. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Ralph Segel

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2018), Traverse City, Michigan, USA, 30 September-5 October 2018

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Burkey, M.T., Savard, G., Gallant, A. et al. Precision β − ν correlation measurements with the Beta-decay Paul Trap. Hyperfine Interact 240, 36 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1580-0

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