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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Measuring the proton spectrum in neutron decay - latest results with aSPECT
F. Ayala GuardiaF. GlückM. BorgH.-f. WirthT. SoldnerWerner HeilO. ZimmerK. K. H. LeungR. Muñoz HortaM. SimsonGertrud KonradI. KonorovYu. SobolevS. Baeßlersubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsSpectrometerProtonCabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrixFOS: Physical sciencesElectronMeasure (mathematics)Nuclear physicsNeutronNuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)Nuclear ExperimentInstrumentationNuclear ExperimentOrder of magnitudeBeam (structure)description
The retardation spectrometer aSPECT was built to measure the shape of the proton spectrum in free neutron decay with high precision. This allows us to determine the antineutrino electron angular correlation coefficient a. We aim for a precision more than one order of magnitude better than the present best value, which is Delta_a /a = 5%. In a recent beam time performed at the Institut Laue-Langevin during April / May 2008 we reached a statistical accuracy of about 2% per 24 hours measurement time. Several systematic effects were investigated experimentally. We expect the total relative uncertainty to be well below 5%.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-11-24 |