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A gaseous-helium cooling system for silicon detectors in the Nab experiment
Love Richburg, Noah Birge, Nadia Fomin +40
The Nab experiment aims to extract the neutron beta decay correlation coefficients 'a' and 'b'. This will be accomplished using a 7 m tall electromagnetic spectrometer which measur…
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…
A Flexible Data Acquisition System Architecture for the Nab Experiment
D. G. Mathews, H. Acharya, C. B. Crawford +15
The Nab experiment will measure the electron-neutrino correlation and Fierz interference term in free neutron beta decay to test the Standard Model and probe Beyond the Standard Mo…
The 3He(\vec n,p)3H parity-conserving asymmetry
M. Viviani, S. Baeßler, L. Barrón-Palos +28
Recently, the nHe collaboration reported a measurement of the parity-violating (PV) proton directional asymmetry $A_{\mathrm {PV}} = (1.55\pm 0.97~\mathrm {(st\ at)} \pm 0.24~\…
Precision pulse shape simulation for proton detection at the Nab experiment
Leendert Hayen, Jin Ha Choi, Dustin Combs +22
The Nab experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, aims to measure the beta-antineutrino angular correlation following neutron decay to an anticipated precision of appro…
Measurement of the Parity-Odd Angular Distribution of Gamma Rays From Polarized Neutron Capture on Cl
N. Fomin, R. Alarcon, L. Alonzi +61
We report a measurement of two energy-weighted gamma cascade angular distributions from polarized slow neutron capture on the Cl nucleus, one parity-odd correlation propor…
Experiments conducted in the burning plasma regime with inertial fusion implosions
J. S. Ross, J. E. Ralph, A. B. Zylstra +149
An experimental program is currently underway at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to compress deuterium and tritium (DT) fuel to densities and temperatures sufficient to achiev…
First Precision Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Cold Neutron Capture on He
n3He Collaboration, M. T. Gericke, S. Baeßler +26
We report the first precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the direction of proton emission with respect to the neutron spin, in the reaction $^{3}\mathrm{He}(\…
The nHe Experiment: Parity Violation in Polarized Neutron Capture on He
n3He Collaboration, M. McCrea, M. L. Kabir +26
Significant progress has been made to experimentally determine a complete set of the parity-violating (PV) weak-interaction amplitudes between nucleons. In this paper we describe t…
Using Nab to determine correlations in unpolarized neutron decay
L. J. Broussard, S. Baeßler, T. L. Bailey +28
The Nab experiment will measure the ratio of the weak axial-vector and vector coupling constants with precision and search for a Fierz term $b_…
The Nab Experiment: A Precision Measurement of Unpolarized Neutron Beta Decay
J. Fry, R. Alarcon, S. Baessler +69
Neutron beta decay is one of the most fundamental processes in nuclear physics and provides sensitive means to uncover the details of the weak interaction. Neutron beta decay can e…
First Observation of -odd Asymmetry in Polarized Neutron Capture on Hydrogen
D. Blyth, J. Fry, N. Fomin +61
We report the first observation of the parity-violating 2.2 MeV gamma-ray asymmetry in neutron-proton capture using polarized cold neutrons incident on a liquid parahydr…
Detection System for Neutron Decay Correlations in the UCNB and Nab experiments
L. J. Broussard, B. A. Zeck, E. R. Adamek +51
We describe a detection system designed for precise measurements of angular correlations in neutron decay. The system is based on thick, large area, highly segmented silicon de…
Neutron skin uncertainties of Skyrme energy density functionals
M. Kortelainen, J. Erler, W. Nazarewicz +3
Background: Neutron-skin thickness is an excellent indicator of isovector properties of atomic nuclei. As such, it correlates strongly with observables in finite nuclei that depend…