Atomic Effects and Heavy-Neutrino Emission in Beta Decay
- 19 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (8) , 807-809
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.807
Abstract
Conventional treatments of atomic effects in beta decay may fail for electron momenta comparable in magnitude to the inverse of the Bohr radius. Exchange corrections are shown to produce a distortion of the tritium beta spectrum similar in shape to that for heavy-neutrino emission, though significantly smaller. The limitations of standard screening corrections are discussed.Keywords
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