Precision Measurement of the 6He Half-Life and the Weak Axial Current in Nuclei

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2011-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5531v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 122502 (2012)

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Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

5 pages, 2 figures, published in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.122502

Studies of 6He beta decay along with tritium can play an important role in testing ab-initio nuclear wave-function calculations and may allow for fixing low-energy constants in effective field theories. Here, we present an improved determination of the 6He half-life to a relative precision of 3x10^(-4). Our value of 806.89 \pm 0.11(stat)^{+0.23}_{-0.19}(syst) ms resolves a major discrepancy between previous measurements. Calculating the statistical rate function we determined the ft-value to be 803.04 ^{+0.26}_{-0.23} s. The extracted Gamow-Teller matrix element agrees within a few percent with ab-initio calculations.

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