QEC value of the superallowed β emitter 42Sc
Eronen, T., Hardy, J. C., Canete, L., Jokinen, A., Hakala, J., Kankainen, A., . . . Äystö, J. (2017). QEC value of the superallowed β emitter 42Sc. Physical Review C, 95 (2), 025501. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025501
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The QEC value of the superallowed β+ emitter 42Sc has been measured with the JYFLTRAP Penning-trap
mass spectrometer at the University of Jyvaskylä to be 6426.350(53) keV. This result is at least a factor of four
more precise than all previous measurements, which were also inconsistent with one another. As a byproduct we
determine the excitation energy of the 7+ isomeric state in 42Sc to be 616.762(46) keV, which deviates by 8σ
from the previous measurement.