• Title of article

    Measuring the proton spectrum in neutron decay—Latest results with aSPECT

  • Author/Authors

    Simson، نويسنده , , M. and Ayala Guardia، نويسنده , , F. and Baeكler، نويسنده , , S. F. Borg، نويسنده , , M. and Glück، نويسنده , , F. and Heil، نويسنده , , W. and Konorov، نويسنده , , I. and Konrad، نويسنده , , G. and Muٌoz Horta، نويسنده , , R. and Leung، نويسنده , , K.K.H. and Sobolev، نويسنده , , Yu. and Soldner، نويسنده , , T. and Wirth، نويسنده , , H.-F. and Zimmer، نويسنده , , O.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    203
  • To page
    206
  • Abstract
    The retardation spectrometer aSPECT was built to measure the shape of the proton spectrum in free neutron decay with high precision. This allows us to determine the antineutrino electron angular correlation coefficient a. We aim for a precision more than one order of magnitude better than the present best value, which is Δ a / a = 5 % . ecent beam time performed at the Institut Laue-Langevin during April/May 2008 we reached a statistical accuracy of about 2% per 24 h measurement time. Several systematic effects were investigated experimentally. We expect the total relative uncertainty to be well below 5%.
  • Keywords
    Neutron decay , Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
  • Record number

    2169918