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Ayyad Y, Olaizola B, Mittig W, Potel G, Zelevinsky V, Horoi M, Beceiro-Novo S, Alcorta M, Andreoiu C, Ahn T, Anholm M, Atar L, Babu A, Bazin D, Bernier N, Bhattacharjee SS, Bowry M, Caballero-Folch R, Cortesi M, Dalitz C, Dunling E, Garnsworthy AB, Holl M, Kootte B, Leach KG, Randhawa JS, Saito Y, Santamaria C, Šiurytė P, Svensson CE, Umashankar R, Watwood N, Yates D. Direct Observation of Proton Emission in ^{11}Be. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:082501. [PMID: 31491233 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.082501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
The elusive β^{-}p^{+} decay was observed in ^{11}Be by directly measuring the emitted protons and their energy distribution for the first time with the prototype Active Target Time Projection Chamber in an experiment performed at ISAC-TRIUMF. The measured β^{-}p^{+} branching ratio is orders of magnitude larger than any previous theoretical model predicted. This can be explained by the presence of a narrow resonance in ^{11}B above the proton separation energy.
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- Y Ayyad
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Pattern Recognition Reinarzstrasse 49, 47805 Krefeld, Germany
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Astronomy and Physics, Saint Marys University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
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- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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Carbone D, Cappuzzello F, Agodi C, Cavallaro M, Acosta L, Bonanno D, Bongiovanni D, Boztosun I, Calabrese S, Calvo D, Chávez Lomelí E, Delaunay F, Deshmukh N, Finocchiaro P, Fisichella M, Foti A, Gallo G, Hacisalihoglu A, Iazzi F, Introzzi R, Lanzalone G, Linares R, Longhitano F, Lo Presti D, Medina N, Muoio A, Oliveira J, Pakou A, Pandola L, Pinna F, Reito S, Russo G, Santagati G, Sgouros O, Solakcı S, Soukeras V, Souliotis G, Spatafora A, Torresi D, Tudisco S, Yildirim A, Zagatto V. The nuclear matrix elements of 0νββ decay and the NUMEN project at INFN-LNS. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2018. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201819402001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The goal of NUMEN project is to access experimentally driven information on Nuclear Matrix Elements (NME) involved in the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ), by high-accuracy measurements of the cross sections of Heavy Ion (HI) induced Double Charge Exchange (DCE) reactions. The knowledge of the nuclear matrix elements is crucial to infer the neutrino average masses from the possible measurement of the half-life of 00νββ decay and to compare experiments on different isotopes. In particular, the (18O, 18Ne) and (20Ne, 20O) reactions are performed as tools for β+β+ and β-β- decays, respectively. The experiments are performed at INFN - Laboratory Nazionali del Sud (LNS) in Catania using the Superconducting Cyclotron (CS) to accelerate the beams and the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer to detect the reaction products. The measured cross sections are very low, limiting the present exploration to few selected isotopes of interest in the context of typically low-yield experimental runs. In order to make feasible a systematic study of all the candidate nuclei, a major upgrade of the LNS facility is foreseen to increase the experimental yield of about two orders of magnitude. To this purpose, frontier technologies are going to be developed for both the accelerator and the detection systems. In parallel, advanced theoretical models will be developed to extract the nuclear structure information from the measured cross sections.
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