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Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 866–869 (1989)

Corrections to the Fermi Matrix Element for Superallowed β Decay

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W. E. Ormand*
The Niels Bohr Institute and NORDITA, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

B. A. Brown
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321

See Also: Erratum

Received 10 February 1988; revised 5 December 1988; published in the issue dated 20 February 1989

Corrections to the Fermi matrix element for superallowed transitions due to isospin nonconservation are reexamined. The sources of theoretical uncertainty and the possibility of a previously neglected correction based on the mismatch between the spectator nucleons are investigated. The consequences to the conserved-vector-current hypothesis and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing angles are discussed.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.866
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.866
PACS:
23.40.-s

*Current address: INFN Sezione di Milano Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.

See Also

Erratum: W. E. Ormand and B. A. Brown, Corrections to the Fermi Matrix Element for Superallowed β Decay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 103 (1989).