1. Weak interaction studies at SARAF
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Ohayon, Ben, Chocron, Joel, Hirsh, Tsviki, Glick-Magid, Ayala, Mishnayot, Yonatan, Mukul, Ish, Rahangdale, Hitesh, Vaintraub, Sergei, Heber, Oded, Gazit, Doron, and Ron, Guy
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
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-optical trap for studying the nuclear $\beta$-decay from trapped radioactive atoms and ions. The differential energy spectra of $\beta$'s and recoil ions emerging from the decay is sensitive to beyond standard model interactions and is complementary to high energy searches. The completed facility SARAF-II will be one of the world's most powerful deuteron, proton and fast neutron sources, producing light radioactive isotopes in unprecedented amounts, needed for obtaining enough statistics for a high precision measurement.
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- 2019
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