High-precision half-life determination of 14O via direct β counting
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Date
2022
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Springer
Abstract
The half-life of the superallowed Fermi β+ emitter 14O was determined to high precision via a direct
β counting experiment performed at the Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facility at TRIUMF. The result,
T1/2(
14O) = 70619.2(76) ms, is consistent with, but is more
precise than, the world average obtained from 11 previous
measurements. Combining the 14O half-life deduced in the
present work with the previous most precise measurements
of this quantity leads to a reduction in the overall uncertainty, by nearly a factor of 2. The new world average is
T1/2(
14O) = 70619.6(63) ms with a reduced χ2 value of 0.87
obtained from 8 degrees of freedom.
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Astrophysics, Physics, Astronomy, Science
Citation
Sharma, S. et al. (2022). High-precision half-life determination of 14O via direct β counting. The European Physical Journal A, 58, 83. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-