Precision measurements in the beta decay of $^6$He

Mohamad Kanafani (1) , Xavier Fléchard (1) , Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic (1) , Gyang Davou Chung , Sylvain Leblond (2) , Etienne Liénard (1) , Xavier Mougeot (2) , Gilles Quéméner (1) , Adriana Simancas Di Filippo (3, 1) , J.-C. Thomas (4)

1 LPCC - Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen
2 LNHB (CEA, LIST) - Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (CEA, LIST)
3 DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Hamburg]
4 GANIL - Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds

We report here about the progress of an experiment performed at GANIL with a 25 keV $^6$He$^+$ beam to determine the Fierz interference term from the beta particles energy spectrum.

Keywords: radioactivity; ionizing radiation; beta-rays; spectrum analysis; metrology; instrumentation; detector; nuclear instrumentation; Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL); plastic scintillator; signal processing; modelling; GEANT4; Monte Carlo; particle transport

Domains: Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]

Mohamad Kanafani, Xavier Fléchard, Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic, Gyang Davou Chung, Sylvain Leblond, et al.. Precision measurements in the beta decay of $^6$He. 8th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP 2022), Aug 2022, Vienna, Austria. pp.01010, ⟨10.1051/epjconf/202328201010⟩. ⟨cea-04133136⟩