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Sympathetic cooling of radioactive 26mAl to test the standard model KU Leuven

Ruben de Groote
Nuclear and Radiation Physics

The standard model of particle physics is our most successful physical theory to date, describing three of the four fundamental forces in the universe with unprecedented accuracy. Testing the validity of the standard model is one of the core activities within contemporary physics research. One cornerstone uses the measurement of beta-decay properties to test the unitarity of the so-called Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix, which ...

Study of induced matrix elements in beta decay with a multiwire drift chamber based spectometer KU Leuven

Nathal Severijns
Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Measurements of correlation coefficients between spin and momentum vectors of the particles produced in nuclear beta decay provide a sensitive means to search for physics beyond the Standard Model and test fundamental symmetries of the weak interaction. Over the last decade several new experiments have been set up and others are being prepared. Our group is actively involved in this, with two experimental methods, i.e. the WITCH Penning trap ...