A new method of measuring the half-life of ^{10}C

Details A new method of measuring the half-life of ^{10}C A new method of measuring the half-life of ^{10}C

2009-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/0911.5325v1

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Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

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A new measurement of the half-life of the positron emitter 10C has been made. The 10C decay belongs to the set of superallowed 0+ -> 0+ beta-decays whose Ft values offer stringent tests of the Conserved Vector Current (CVC) hypothesis and which can be used in calculating |Vud|, the largest element of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix of the Standard Model. The experimental method used four plastic scintillator detectors in a 3-fold coincidence mode in order to detect the unique 2x511keV+718keV gamma-ray decay signature of 10C. The half-life values obtained from the data were strongly dependent on the detector count rates, but a final value of 19.303 +/- 0.013 s was determined by extrapolating the dependence to zero count rate. This study highlights the significance of systematic errors due to high count rates in precision half-life experiments and raises doubts about both the two previously accepted values of the half-life of 10C.

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