1. Study of neutron beta decay with the Nab experiment.
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Baeßler, Stefan, Acharya, Himal, Alarcon, Ricardo, Broussard, Leah J., Bowler, Michael, Bowman, David, Choi, Jin Ha, Christie, Love, Chupp, Tim, Clymer, Skylar, Crawford, Christopher, Dodson, George, Fomin, Nadia, Fry, Jason, Gericke, Michael, Godri, Rebecca, Gonzalez, Francisco M., Greene, Geoff, Hagemeier, Andrew, and Hamblen, Josh
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NEUTRONS ,DEUTERONS ,ATOMIC nucleus ,COULOMB friction ,CHIRALITY - Abstract
The current three sigma tension in the unitarity test of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix is a notable problem with the Standard Model of elementary particle physics. A long-standing goal of the study of free neutron beta decay is to better determine the CKM element V
ud through measurements of the neutron lifetime and a decay correlation parameter. The Nab collaboration intends to measure a, the neutrino-electron correlation, with accuracy sufficient for a competitive evaluation of Vud based on neutron decay data alone. This paper gives a status report and an outlook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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