Abstract
We review the design, simulation, and tests of a detection system for measuring the energy distribution of daughter nuclei recoiling from the β decay of laser trapped neon isotopes. This distribution is sensitive to several new physics effects in the weak sector. Our "decay microscope" relies on imaging the velocity distribution of high-energy recoil ions in coincidence with electrons shaken off in the decay. We demonstrate by way of Monte Carlo simulation that the nuclear microscope increases the statistical sensitivity of kinematic measurements to the underlying energy distribution and limits the main systematic bias caused by discrepancy in the trap position along the detection axis.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 035501 |
Journal | Physical Review C |
Volume | 101 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The work presented here is supported by grants from the Pazy Foundation (Israel), Israel Science Foundation (Grants No. 139/15 and No. 1446/16), and the European Research Council (Grant No. 714118 TRAPLAB). B.O. is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, under the Eshkol Fellowship, and by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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