A new twist in β-decay

Wolfgang Stoeffl ()
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Wolfgang Stoeffl: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6715, 105-108

Abstract: The broad spectra of radioactive β-decay energies led to the discovery of the neutrino in the 1930s. There was also speculation that the shape of the spectrum could be used to measure a possible neutrino mass. In 1991, it was predicted that there should be ripples in the spectra called ‘β-environmental fine structure’ or BEFS. These ripples have been measured in a new experiment, which may eventually transcend the massive-neutrino controversy in that BEFS can be used to probe the atomic structure of many solids.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/16347

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