Half-life and Branching ratio measurements of T = 1/2 Mirror Nuclei
Abstract
The β-decay transitions between T = 1/2 isospin doublets in mirror nuclei requires the measurement of decay rate and angular correlation to measure the comparative half-life. The motivation for improving the precision of the ft value is to determine the standard-model prediction for the correlation parameters with better precision. We have measured the half-life of 21Na and 37K, and the ground-state branching ratio of 37K to improve the precision of the ft value. For 37K, the ft value was limited by 0.6% uncertainty in the half-life and 0.14% uncertainty in the ground-state branching ratio. The precision of the present half-life measurement is nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previously accepted world average. In case of 21Na, the ft value was limited by 0.13% uncertainty in the half-life. Another motivation for the half-life measurement comes from the fact that the half-life has only been measured thrice nearly 40 years ago. The measurements were carried out at the Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University. An overview of both experiments and results will be presented.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- Bibcode:
- 2014APS..DNP.FB010S