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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 124, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.232502
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- DOE in the United States
- NSF in the United States
- NSERC in Canada
- IBS in Korea
- RFBR in Russia [18-02-00550]
- ISTCP in China
- Academy of Finland [318043]
- Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
- DFG in Germany
- CAS in China
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We report on a comparison between the theoretically predicted and experimentally measured spectra of the first-forbidden nonunique beta-decay transition Xe-137(7/2(-)) -> Cs-137(7/2(+)). The experimental data were acquired by the EXO-200 experiment during a deployment of an AmBe neutron source. The ultralow background environment of EXO-200, together with dedicated source deployment and analysis procedures, allowed for collection of a pure sample of the decays, with an estimated signal to background ratio of more than 99 to 1 in the energy range from 1075 to 4175 keV. In addition to providing a rare and accurate measurement of the first-forbidden nonunique beta-decay shape, this work constitutes a novel test of the calculated electron spectral shapes in the context of the reactor antineutrino anomaly and spectral bump.
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