201. Measurement of the neutrino asymmetry in the β decay of laser-cooled, polarized 37K
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Melconian, D., Behr, J.A., Ashery, D., Aviv, O., Bricault, P.G., Dombsky, M., Fostner, S., Gorelov, A., Gu, S., Hanemaayer, V., Jackson, K.P., Pearson, M.R., and Vollrath, I.
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PHYSICS , *PHYSICAL sciences , *SCIENCE , *NUCLEAR reactions - Abstract
Abstract: A measurement of the neutrino asymmetry is presented which represents the first search for new physics using polarized radioactive atoms initially cooled and confined in a magneto-optical trap. Optical pumping and photoionization techniques are used to generate and measure, in situ, a highly spin-polarized sample of the short-lived -emitter 37K. The angular distribution of neutrinos from this polarized decay, inferred from the daughter recoil asymmetry, is used to search for a hypothetical current in the weak interaction. We find the ν asymmetry parameter to be , in agreement with the standard model''s purely interaction. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2007
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