Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics (CNNP2020) Arabella Hotel and Spa, South Africa, 24-28 February 2020

23-28 February 2020
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Theoretical description of half-lives and electron spectra for higher order forbidden non-unique $\beta$ decays

24 Feb 2020, 14:40
20m
Parallel Venue

Speaker

Anil Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)

Description

Theoretical description of half-lives and electron spectra for higher order forbidden non-unique $\beta$ decays

Anil Kumar and Praveen C. Srivastava

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
Roorkee 247 667, India

In this work we have calculated log$ft$ and half-lives values of the higher order forbidden $\beta$-decays for selected nuclei [for e.g. $^{87}$Rb($3/2^-$) $\rightarrow$ $^{87}$Sr($9/2^+$)] in the framework of the nuclear shell model [1-3]. In the present study, we have included next-to-leading-order terms [4-6] in the shape functions to see their effect in the calculated half-lives and $\beta$ (or electron) spectra. The role of effective value of axial-vector coupling constant ($g_A$) in half-lives and $\beta$ spectra for higher-forbidden beta decay are very important. The $\beta^-$-spectrum of the fourth-forbidden non-unique decays of $^{113}$Cd and $^{115}$In strongly depends on the effective value of $g_A$ [4,7]. In our study we will report the spectrum-shape method (SSM) for electron spectra with the effective value of $g_A$. With the SSM, it is possible to extract information of effective value of the weak coupling constant by comparing the theoretical and experimental $\beta$ electron spectra of forbidden non-unique $\beta$-decays.

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[6] J. Kostensalo, M. Haaranen, and J. Suhonen, Electron spectra in forbidden $\beta$ decays and the quenching of the weak axial-vector coupling constant $g_A$, Phys. Rev. C {\bf 95}, 044313 (2017).

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Primary authors

Anil Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India) Dr Praveen C Srivastava (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)