Novel search for heavy ν mixing from the β+ decay of 38mK confined in an atom trap

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Trinczek, M ^a   Gorelov, A ^a   Melconian, D ^a   Alford, W P ^b   Asgeirsson, D ^c   Ashery, D ^d   Behr, J A ^c   Bricault, P G ^c   D'Auria, J M ^a   Deutsch, J ^e   Dilling, J ^c,f   Dombsky, M ^c   Dube P ^a   Eaton, S ^c   Fingler, J ^c   Giesen, U ^c   Gu, S ^c   Hausser O ^a   Jackson, K P ^c   Lee, B ^c   Schmid, J H ^f   Stocki, T J ^a   Swanson, T B ^a   Wong, W ^c   more..

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c TRIUMF   (Canada)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; POSITRONS; RELATIVITY;

BETA DECAY; NEUTRINO; NUCLEAR RECOILS; TIME OF FLIGHT SPECTRUM;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 4243267745     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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