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Search for new physics in beta-neutrino correlations with the WITCH spectrometer

✍ Scribed by D. Beck; F. Ames; M. Beck; G. Bollen; B. Delauré; J. Deutsch; J. Dilling; O. Forstner; T. Phalet; R. Prieels; W. Quint; P. Schmidt; P. Schuurmans; N. Severijns; B. Vereecke; S. Versyck


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
71 KB
Volume
701
Category
Article
ISSN
0375-9474

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✦ Synopsis


The WITCH (Weak Interaction Trap for CHarged particles) experiment is a retardation spectrometer coupled to a Penning trap and measures the beta-neutrino angular correlation via the shape of the recoil energy spectrum. The present form of the Standard Model describes weak processes in terms of vector and axial-vector type interactions, but the possible presence of scalar and tensor interactions is not yet ruled out. The main aim of this experiment is a test of the Standard Model for possible admixture of scalar and tensor currents.