Beta Decay (cont.) (online class)

15 maio 2020, 11:00 Elmar Biernat

  • Electron/positron momentum and energy distributions
  • Fermi function and shape factor
  • Experimental tests of Fermi's theory, Fermi-Kurie plots
  • Comparative half lives, ft value
  • Strength of weak nuclear interaction
  • The fundamental weak interaction 
  • Neutrino mass from beta spectrum, most recent estimates
  • Allowed decays: Fermi and Gamow-Teller, selection rules
  • Mixed decays, mixing in free neutron decay
(Literature: Chapter 9 in Introductory Nuclear Physics. K. S. Krane, Wiley 1987)