Improved experimental determination of the branching ratio for β-delayed α decay of 16N

Oliver S. Kirsebom; Irene M. Alonso; Tom Berry; Maria J. G. Borge; Esben R. Christensen; Daniel Doherty; Paloma D. Fernández; Miguel M. Flores; Hans O. U. Fynbo; Mariano C. Gallardo; Nicolas Hubbard; Jesper H. Jensen; Håkan Johansson; Björn Jonson; Razvan Lica; Morten V. Lund; Angel P. Martínez; Michael K. Munch; Karsten Riisager; Olivier Sorlin; Jacobus A. Swartz; Olof Tengblad; Victoria Vedia

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716501031

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 165, 2017 Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VIII (NPA8 2017)


Article Number		01031
Number of page(s)		4
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501031
Published online		30 December 2017

EPJ Web of Conferences 165, 01031 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501031

Improved experimental determination of the branching ratio for β-delayed α decay of ¹⁶N

Oliver S. Kirsebom¹^*, Irene M. Alonso², Tom Berry³, Maria J. G. Borge⁴, Esben R. Christensen¹, Daniel Doherty⁵, Paloma D. Fernández⁶, Miguel M. Flores⁴, Hans O. U. Fynbo¹, Mariano C. Gallardo⁷, Nicolas Hubbard⁵, Jesper H. Jensen¹, Håkan Johansson⁶, Björn Jonson⁶, Razvan Lica⁴, Morten V. Lund¹, Angel P. Martínez², Michael K. Munch¹, Karsten Riisager¹, Olivier Sorlin⁴^,8, Jacobus A. Swartz¹, Olof Tengblad² and Victoria Vedia⁷

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
² Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
³ Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
⁴ CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
⁵ Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
⁶ Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden
⁷ Grupo de Física Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
⁸ GANIL, CEA/DSM-CNRS/IN2P3, Bvd Henri Becquerel, 14076 Caen, France

^* Acknowledges support from the Villum Foundation; e-mail: oliskir@phys.au.dk

Published online: 30 December 2017

Abstract

We report on the preliminary results of an experimental study of the β decay of ¹⁶N, aiming to determine the branching ratio of the βα channel with a precision of ≤ 5%.

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