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Value of the Axial-Vector Coupling Strength in β and ββ Decays : A Review
2017
Double-β decay within a consistent deformed approach
2015
In this paper we present a timely application of the proton-neutron deformed quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pn-dQRPA), designed to describe in a consistent way the 1+ Gamow-Teller states in oddodd deformed nuclei. For this purpose we apply a projection before variation procedure by using a singleparticle basis with projected angular momentum, provided by the diagonalization of a spherical mean field plus quadrupole-quadrupole interaction. The residual Hamiltonian contains pairing plus proton-neutron dipole terms in particle-hole and particle-particle channels, with constant strengths. As an example we describe the two-neutrino double-beta (2νββ) decay of 150Nd to the ground state…
Measurement of the 2νββ decay half-life and search for the 0νββ decay of 116Cd with the NEMO-3 detector
2017
The NEMO-3 experiment measured the half-life of the 2νββ decay and searched for the 0νββ decay of 116Cd. Using 410 g of 116Cd installed in the detector with an exposure of 5.26 y, (4968±74) events corresponding to the 2νββ decay of 116Cd to the ground state of 116Sn have been observed with a signal to background ratio of about 12. The half-life of the 2νββ decay has been measured to be T2ν1/2=[2.74±0.04(stat)±0.18(syst)]×1019 y. No events have been observed above the expected background while searching for 0νββ decay. The corresponding limit on the half-life is determined to be T0ν1/2≥1.0×1023 y at the 90% C.L. which corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of…
Measuring nuclear reaction cross sections to extract information on neutrinoless double beta decay
2017
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0v\b{eta}\b{eta}) is considered the best potential resource to access the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that neutrinos are their own anti-particles (Majorana particles). Presently, this physics case is one of the most important research "beyond Standard Model" and might guide the way towards a Grand Unified Theory of fundamental interactions. Since the 0v\b{eta}\b{eta} decay process involves nuclei, its analysis necessarily implies nuclear structure issues. In the NURE project, supported by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), nuclear reactions of double charge-exchange (DCE) are used as a tool to extr…
Mössbauer Emission Spectroscopy of Mixed-Valency after Nuclear Decay in Iron Complexes
1991
The population of anomalous spin states and aliovalent charge states of iron induced by the 57 Co(EC)57 Fe nuclear decay in polycristalline transition metal compounds was studied by means of Coincidence Mossbauer Emission Spectroscopy (CMES), that is Time-Differential Mossbauer Emission Spectroscopy (TDMES) as well as γ/Xray-Coincidence Mossbauer Emission Spectroscopy (γ/X-CMES). By use of time-integral Mossbauer emission spectroscopy (TIMES) we have observed anomalous high spin (S = 2) states of 57 Fe(II) in the system [57Co/Co(phen)3(ClO 4)2 with increasing intensities on lowering the temperature. With TDMES we followed quantitatively the high spin-low spin relaxation kinetics in this com…
Steering Distillation Processes through Zeno dynamics
2005
A quantum system in interaction with a repeatedly measured one undergoes a nonunitary time evolution and is pushed into a subspace substantially determined by the two-system coupling. The possibility of suitably modifying such an evolution through quantum Zeno dynamics (i.e., the generalized quantum Zeno effect) addressing the system toward an a priori decided target subspace is illustrated. Applications and their possible realizations in the context of trapped ions are also discussed.
β-decay rates of 115,117Rh into 115,117Pd isotopes in the microscopic interacting boson-fermion model
2020
The structure of odd-A 115,117Rh and 115,117Pd isotopes is studied by means of the neutron-proton interacting boson-fermion model (IBFM-2). JP=12+ quantum number assignment for the 115,117Pd ground states is critically discussed and the predicted energy levels are compared to the existing experimental data. The resulting nuclear wave functions are used to compute the β-decay ft values of the transitions from 115,117Rh to 115,117Pd in the microscopic IBFM-2 and the results compared with the data. peerReviewed
Restoring the valence-shell stabilization in 140Nd
2020
A projectile Coulomb-excitation experiment was performed at the radioactive-ion beam facility HIE-ISOLDE at CERN to obtain $E2$ and $M1$ transition matrix elements of $^{140}$Nd using the multistep Coulomb-excitation code GOSIA. The absolute $M1$ strengths, $\textrm{B}(M1;2^+_2→2^+_1)=0.033(8)μ^2_N,\textrm{B}(M1;2^+_3→2^+_1)=0.26^{+0.11}_{−0.10}μ^2_N$, and $\textrm{B}(M1;2^+_4→2^+_1)<0.04μ^2_{\textrm{N}}$, identify the $2^+_3$ state as the main fragment of the one-quadrupole-phonon proton-neutron mixed-symmetry state of $^{140}$Nd. The degree of F-spin mixing in $^{140}$Nd was quantified with the determination of the mixing matrix element $V_{\textrm{F−mix}}<7^{+13}_{−7}$keV.
Competition between allowed and first-forbidden β decays of At208 and expansion of the Po208 level scheme
2021
The structure of 208Po populated through the EC/β+ decay of 208At is investigated using γ-ray spectroscopy at the ISOLDE Decay Station. The presented level scheme contains 27 new excited states and 43 new transitions, as well as a further 50 previously observed γ rays which have been (re)assigned a position. The level scheme is compared to shell model calculations. Through this analysis approximately half of the β-decay strength of 208At is found to proceed via allowed decay and half via first-forbidden decay. The first-forbidden transitions predominantly populate core excited states at high excitation energies, which is qualitatively understood using shell model considerations. This mass r…
First β-decay scheme of 107Nb : New insight into the low-energy levels of 107Mo
2019
Monoisotopic samples of 107Nb nuclei, produced in the proton-induced fission of 238U and separated using the IGISOL mass separator coupled to a Penning trap, were used to perform β- and γ-coincidence spectroscopy of 107Mo. Gamma transitions and excited levels in 107Mo were observed in β decay for the first time. Spin and parity 1/2+ for the ground state of 107Mo is proposed, to replace the previous 5/2+ assignment. The experimental β-decay half-life of 107Nb was estimated to be 0.27±0.02 s. peerReviewed