Back to Search Start Over

New result for the neutron $��$-asymmetry parameter $A_0$ from UCNA

Authors :
Brown, M. A. -P.
Dees, E. B.
Adamek, E.
Allgeier, B.
Blatnik, M.
Bowles, T. J.
Broussard, L. J.
Carr, R.
Clayton, S.
Cude-Woods, C.
Currie, S.
Ding, X.
Filippone, B. W.
Garcia, A.
Geltenbort, P.
Hasan, S.
Hickerson, K. P.
Hoagland, J.
Hong, R.
Hogan, G. E.
Holley, A. T.
Ito, T. M.
Knecht, A.
Liu, C. -Y.
Liu, J.
Makela, M.
Martin, J. W.
Melconian, D.
Mendenhall, M. P.
Moore, S. D.
Morris, C. L.
Nepal, S.
Nouri, N.
Pattie, R. W.
Perez-Galvan, A.
Phillips, D. G.
Picker, R.
Pitt, M. L.
Plaster, B.
Ramsey, J. C.
Rios, R.
Salvat, D. J.
Saunders, A.
Sondheim, W.
Seestrom, S. J.
Sjue, S.
Slutsky, S.
Sun, X.
Swank, C.
Swift, G.
Tatar, E.
Vogelaar, R. B.
VornDick, B.
Wang, Z.
Wexler, J.
Womack, T.
Wrede, C.
Young, A. R.
Zeck, B. A.
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
arXiv, 2017.

Abstract

The neutron $��$-decay asymmetry parameter $A_0$ defines the correlation between the spin of the neutron and the momentum of the emitted electron, which determines $��=\frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}$, the ratio of the axial-vector to vector weak coupling constants. The UCNA Experiment, located at the Ultracold Neutron facility at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, is the first to measure such a correlation coefficient using ultracold neutrons (UCN). Following improvements to the systematic uncertainties and increased statistics, we report the new result $A_0 = -0.12054(44)_{\mathrm{stat}}(68)_{\mathrm{syst}}$ which yields $��\equiv \frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}=-1.2783(22)$. Combination with the previous UCNA result and accounting for correlated systematic uncertainties produces $A_0=-0.12015(34)_{\mathrm{stat}}(63)_{\mathrm{syst}}$ and $��\equiv \frac{g_{A}}{g_{V}}=-1.2772(20)$.<br />9 pages, 7 figures, updated to as-published version

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........d3406dc130be179ec9edc4d674464bda
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1712.00884