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Branching ratio of the super-allowed \(\beta \) decay of \(^{10}\)C

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In an experiment performed at the ISOLDE facility of CERN, the super-allowed \(\beta \)-decay branching ratio of \(^{10}\)C was determined with a high-precision single-crystal germanium detector. In order to evaluate the contribution of the pile-up of two 511 keV \(\gamma \) quanta to one of the \(\gamma \)-ray peaks of interest at 1021.7 keV, data were not only taken with \(^{10}\)C, but also with a \(^{19}\)Ne beam. The final result for the super-allowed decay branch is 1.4638(50)%, in agreement with the average from literature.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the ISOLDE staff for their efforts during the present experiment. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant agreement no. 654002.

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  1. Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan, UMR 5797 CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Bordeaux, 19 Chemin du Solarium, CS 10120, 33175, Gradignan Cedex, France

    B. Blank, M. Aouadi, P. Ascher, M. Gerbaux, J. Giovinazzo, S. Grévy & T. Kurtukian Nieto

  2. Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada

    M. R. Dunlop, R. Dunlop & A. T. Laffoley

  3. Department of Physics, Univeristy of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada

    G. F. Grinyer

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    P. Finlay

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Blank, B., Aouadi, M., Ascher, P. et al. Branching ratio of the super-allowed \(\beta \) decay of \(^{10}\)C. Eur. Phys. J. A 56, 156 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00165-1

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