The WITCH experiment: Towards weak interactions studies. Status and prospects

Hyperfine Interactions

Volumn 172, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 15-22

  Kozlov, V Yu ^a   Beck, M ^a,b   Coeck, S ^a   Herbane, M ^a   Kraev, I S ^a   Severijns, N ^a   Wauters, F ^a   Delahaye, P ^c   Herlert, A ^c   Wenander, F ^c   Zakoucky D ^d  

^a KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Penning trap; Retardation spectrometer; Weak interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547850806     PISSN: 03043843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10751-007-9519-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Lee, T.D., Yang, C.N.: Question of parity conservation in weak interactions. Phys. Rev. 104, 254 (1956)
2. Jackson, J.D., Treiman, S.B., Wyld, H.W.: Possible tests of time reversal invariance in beta decay. Phys. Rev. 106, 517 (1957)
3. Severijns, N., Beck, M., Naviliat-Cuncic, O.: Tests of the standard electroweak model in nuclear beta decay. Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 991 (2006), nucl-ex/0605029
4. Jackson, J.D., Treiman, S.B., Wyld, H.W.: Coulomb corrections in allowed beta transitions. Nucl. Phys. 4, 206 (1957)
5. Gorelov, A., et al.: Scalar interaction limits from the β-ν (beta-neutrino) correlation of trapped radioactive atoms. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 142501 (2005)
6. Scielzo, N., et al.: Measurement of the β-ν (beta-neutrino) correlation using magneto-optically trapped 21Na. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 102501 (2004)
7. Rodriguez, D., et al.: The LPCTrap for the measurement of the β-ν correlation in 6He. Eur. Phys. J. A, 25(Suppl. 1), 705 (2005)
8. Adelberger, E.G., et al.: Positron-neutrino correlation in the 0+→0+ decay of 32Ar. Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 1299 (1999)
9. Kugler, E.: The ISOLDE facility. Hyp. Int. 129, 23 (2000)
10. Ames, F., et al.: Cooling of radioactive ions with the Penning trap REXTRAP. Nucl. Instrum. Methods, A 538, 17 (2005)
11. Coeck, S., et al.: A pulsed drift cavity to capture 30 keV ion bunches at ground potential. Nucl. Instrum. Methods, A 572, 585 (2007)
12. Beck, M., et al.: WITCH: a recoil spectrometer for weak interaction and nuclear physics studies. Nucl. Instrum. Methods, A 503, 567 (2003)
13. Kozlov, V., et al.: The WITCH experiment: completion of a set-up to investigate the structure of weak interactions with a Penning trap. Int. J. Mass Spec. 251, 159 (2006)
14. König, M., et al.: Quadrupole excitation of stored ion motion at the true cyclotron frequency. Int. J. Mass Spec. 142, 95 (1995)
15. Liénard, E., et al.: Performance of a micro-channel plates position sensitive detector. Nucl. Instrum. Methods, A 551, 375 (2005)