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most citedThe Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) - Overview, Research Programs and Future Plans

92 citations · 155 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

nucl-ex2025

First Full Dalitz Plot Measurement in Neutron -Decay using the Nab Spectrometer and Implications for New Physics

Francisco M. Gonzalez, Jin Ha Choi, Himal Acharya +89

Precision measurements of observables in neutron -decay are used to test the Standard Model description of the weak interaction and search for evidence of new physics. The Nab e…

nucl-ex2023★ 1 cited

Fundamental Neutron Physics: a White Paper on Progress and Prospects in the US

R. Alarcon, A. Aleksandrova, S. Baeßler +88

Fundamental neutron physics, combining precision measurements and theory, probes particle physics at short range with reach well beyond the highest energies probed by the LHC. Sign…

nucl-ex2023★ 2 cited

Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos (FSNN): Whitepaper for the 2023 NSAC Long Range Plan

B. Acharya, C. Adams, A. A. Aleksandrova +176

This whitepaper presents the research priorities decided on by attendees of the 2022 Town Meeting for Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons and Neutrinos, which took place December 13-1…

nucl-ex2021★ 2 cited

Constraining new physics with a novel measurement of the Ne -decay branching ratio

Yonatan Mishnayot, Ayala Glick-Magid, Hitesh Rahangdale +20

Measurements of the beta-neutrino correlation coefficient (a) in nuclear beta decay, together with the Fierz interference term (b), provide a robust test for the existen…

nucl-ex2020★ 2 cited

Ne Production at SARAF-I

Yonatan Mishnayot, Hitesh Rahangdale, Ben Ohayon +9

In this article, we present a measurement of flow rate, yield and effusion time of a Ne production and transport system. We used an accelerator-driven Li(d,n) neutron source…

physics.ins-det2019★ 8 cited

A decay microscope for trapped neon isotopes

Ben Ohayon, Hitesh Rahangdale, Elad Parnes +3

We review the design, simulation, and tests, of a detection system for measuring the energy distribution of daughter nuclei recoiling from the beta-decay of laser trapped neon isot…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 24 cited

Isotope shifts in Ne -- Precision measurements and global analysis in the framework of intermediate coupling

B. Ohayon, H. Rahangdale, A. J. Geddes +2

We report new precision measurements of the Ne--Ne isotope shift for several transitions, as well as state-of-the-art, \textit{ab initio} field-shift calculations. Ou…

nucl-ex2019★ 17 cited

Weak interaction studies at SARAF

Ben Ohayon, Joel Chocron, Tsviki Hirsh +8

We review the current status of the radioisotopes program at the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF), where we utilize an electrostatic-ion-beam trap and a magneto-…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 7 cited

Imaging recoil ions from optical collisions between ultracold, metastable neon isotopes

B. Ohayon, H. Rahangdale, J. Chocron +3

We present an experimental scheme which combines the well established method of velocity-mapimaging, with a cold trapped metastable neon target. The device is used for obtaining th…

physics.ins-det2018★ 92 cited

The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) - Overview, Research Programs and Future Plans

Israel Mardor, Ofer Aviv, Marilena Avrigeanu +26

The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) is under construction in the Soreq Nuclear Research Center at Yavne, Israel. When completed at the beginning of the next dec…