Confirmation of gA quenching using the revised spectrum-shape method for the analysis of the 113Cd β-decay as measured with the COBRA demonstrator
Kostensalo, J., Suhonen, J., Volkmer, J., Zatschler, S., & Zuber, K. (2021). Confirmation of gA quenching using the revised spectrum-shape method for the analysis of the 113Cd β-decay as measured with the COBRA demonstrator. Physics Letters B, 822, Article 136652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136652
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In this article we present an updated spectrum-shape analysis of the113Cd fourfold forbidden non-uniqueβ-decay transition in order to address the quenching of the weak axial-vector coupling gA in low-momentum exchange nuclear processes. The experimental data were collected in a dedicated low-threshold run with the COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS and resulted in 44 individual113Cdspectra. These data are evaluated in the context of three nuclear model frameworks based on a revised version of the spectrum-shape method and the conserved vector current hypothesis. The novel idea devised in the present work is to fit the value of the small relativistic nuclear matrix element (s-NME) driving the nuclear model calculations, which remained essentially as a free parameter in previous studies. This is done by tuning the nuclear structure calculations and making use of the interplay of gA and the s-NME such that the experimentally known113Cd half-life gets reproducible by the different frameworks. In this way, a best fit s-NME value can be derived for each of the considered nuclear models, which finally enters the template calculations used to perform the spectrum-shape analysis for each of the obtained113Cd spectra. The primary analysis strategy results in significantly quenched values of the axial-vector coupling for all three nuclear models: gA(ISM)=0.907±0.064,gA(MQPM)=0.993±0.063andgA(IBFM-2)=0.828±0.140. Moreover, with our data-driven approach one of the main shortcomings of the spectrum-shape method has been resolved. This achievement is a milestone in the description of strongly forbiddenβ-decays and adds to the indications for the existence of a quenching of gA in low-momentum exchange nuclear processes.
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the collaboration would like tothank the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft, DFG) for its past funding and the support of theCOBRA XDEM upgrade under the project numbers ZU123/3and GO1133/1. Additionally, the support by the Academy of Finland under the project number 318043 and from the Jennyand Antti Wihuri Foundation is acknowledged.License
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