“…where is the full energy detection efficiency, N A is the Avogadro constant, T is the live-time (240.6 d), m is the mass of the vanadium-sample (818.5 g), f is the natural isotopic abundance of 50 V (0.25%) and M the molar mass of natural vanadium (50.94). The Bayesian Analysis Toolkit (BAT) [29] is used to perform a maximum posterior fit. The likelihood L is defined as the product of the Poisson probabilities over each bin i for observing n i events while expecting λ i events:…”
A new search for the decay modes of the 4-fold forbidden non-unique decay of 50 V has been performed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS). In total an exposure of 197 kg×d has been accumulated. The half-life for the electron capture into the first excited state of 50 Ti has been measured with the highest precision to date as 2.67 +0.16 −0.18 x 10 17 yr (68% C.I.) in which systematics uncertainties dominate. The search for the β-decay into the first excited state of 50 Cr resulted in a lower limit of 1.9 x 10 19 yr (90% C.I.), which is an improvement of almost one order of magnitude compared to existing results. The sensitivity of the new measurement is now in the region of theoretical predictions.
“…where is the full energy detection efficiency, N A is the Avogadro constant, T is the live-time (240.6 d), m is the mass of the vanadium-sample (818.5 g), f is the natural isotopic abundance of 50 V (0.25%) and M the molar mass of natural vanadium (50.94). The Bayesian Analysis Toolkit (BAT) [29] is used to perform a maximum posterior fit. The likelihood L is defined as the product of the Poisson probabilities over each bin i for observing n i events while expecting λ i events:…”
A new search for the decay modes of the 4-fold forbidden non-unique decay of 50 V has been performed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS). In total an exposure of 197 kg×d has been accumulated. The half-life for the electron capture into the first excited state of 50 Ti has been measured with the highest precision to date as 2.67 +0.16 −0.18 x 10 17 yr (68% C.I.) in which systematics uncertainties dominate. The search for the β-decay into the first excited state of 50 Cr resulted in a lower limit of 1.9 x 10 19 yr (90% C.I.), which is an improvement of almost one order of magnitude compared to existing results. The sensitivity of the new measurement is now in the region of theoretical predictions.
“…Much of these data are available from compilations [30,31,32] but we try to give references to the original data as much as possible [33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53].…”
We have performed a partial-wave analysis of K + -nucleon scattering in the momentum range from 0 to 1.5 GeV/c addressing the uncertainties of the results and comparing them with several previous analyses. It is found that the treatment of the reaction threshold behavior is particularly important. We find a T=0 scattering length which is not consistent with zero, as has been claimed by other analyses. The T=0 phase shifts for ℓ > 0 are consistent with a pure spin-orbit potential. Some indications for the production of a T=0 pentaquark with spin-parity D5/2+ are discussed.
“…where is the full energy detection efficiency, N A is the Avogadro constant, T d is the live-time of dataset d, m is the mass of the zirconium-sample, f is the natural isotopic abundance of 94 Zr and M the molar mass of natural zirconium. The Bayesian Analysis Toolkit (BAT) [15] is used to perform a maximum posterior fit combining all three datasets. The likelihood L is defined as the product of the Poisson probabilities over each bin i in dataset d for observing n d,i events while expecting λ d,i events:…”
A search for the double beta decay transition of 94 Zr into the first excited state of 94 Mo has been performed at the Felsenkeller underground laboratory in Dresden, Germany. A 341.1 g zirconium sample with natural isotopic composition has been measured for 43.9 d in an ultra low background gamma spectroscopy setup. No signal has been observed and a new best lower half-life limit is set as 5.2 × 10 19 yr (90% CI). This limit is valid for the 0νββ and 2νββ decay into excited states of 94 Mo but cannot distinguish between the two modes. Existing limits are improved by 50%. An improved half-life limit of the double beta decay of 94 Zr into the excited state of 94 Mo2
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