Value of the Superallowed Decay ofand Its Influence onand the Unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix
- 29 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 95 (10) , 102501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.102501
Abstract
The masses of the radioactive nuclei and its decay daughter have been measured with the Canadian Penning Trap on-line Penning trap mass spectrometer to a precision of . A value of 7052.90(40) keV for the superallowed beta decay of is obtained from the difference of these two masses. With this precise value, the value for this decay is determined with improved precision. An investigation of an earlier -value measurement for uncovers a set of 7 measurements that cannot be reconciled with modern data and affects previous evaluations of from superallowed Fermi decays. A new evaluation, adding our new data and removing the discredited subset, yields new values for and . When combined with recent results for , this yields modified constraints for the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix and other extensions of the standard model.Keywords
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