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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.04.035
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Ion trapping; Recoil-ion spectroscopy; beta-Decay angular correlations
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Argonne National Laboratory [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- Northwestern University [DE-FG02-98ER41086]
- NSERC, Canada [216974]
The beta-decay Paul trap is a linear radiofrequency-quadrupole ion trap that has been developed for precision beta-decay studies. The design of the trap electrodes allows a variety of radiation detectors to surround the cloud of trapped ions. The momentum of the low-energy recoiling daughter nuclei following beta decay is negligibly perturbed by scattering and is available for study. This advantageous property of traps allows the kinematics of particles that are difficult or even impossible to directly detect to be precisely reconstructed using conservation of energy and momentum. An ion-trap system offers several advantages over atom traps, such as higher trapping efficiencies and element-independent capabilities. The first precision experiment using this system is a measurement of beta-decay angular correlations in the decay of Li-8 performed by inferring the momentum of the neutrino from the kinematic shifts imparted to the breakup a particles. Many other beta-decay studies that would benefit from a determination of the nuclear recoil can be performed with this system. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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