LIMITS ON NONSTANDARD WEAK CURRENTS FROM THE POSITRON DECAYS OF O-14 AND C-10

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CARNOY, AS
DEUTSCH, J
GIRARD, TA
PRIEELS, R
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[1] Institut de Physique Nucleaire, University Catholique de Louvain
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3249
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O4 [物理学];
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The relative polarization of positrons emitted in pure Fermi (O-14) and Gamow-Teller (C-10) decays has been measured using a new technique based on time-resolved positronium decay. The result P(GT/P(F) = 0.9996 +/- 0.0037 provides constraints on possible right-handed and scalar-tensor current admixtures to the weak interaction of -4 < zeta-delta x 10(4) < 7 and [(C(S)/C(V)) - (C(T)/C(A))[ = (1 +/- 9) x 10(-3) (90% C.L.), respectively.
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