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- Title
Superallowed decays within and beyond the standard model.
- Authors
Falkowski, Adam; González-Alonso, Martín; Naviliat-Cuncic, Oscar; Severijns, Nathal
- Abstract
This note reviews the role of superallowed transitions in determining the strength of the weak interaction among the lightest quarks and in searching for new physics beyond the standard electroweak model. The two sets of superallowed decays in nuclei considered here are pure Fermi and mirror transitions. The first have been scrutinized for more than 50 years. The most relevant results are presented and the role of the nucleus-dependent radiative correction and nucleus-independent inner radiative correction are reviewed. In this context, the systematic study of mirror transitions started about 15 years ago. Despite the significant progress made since then, the data is still limited by experimental uncertainties. Combining the results from all superallowed transitions, which are fully consistent, provides a test of unitarity of the first row of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, which displays a 2 σ tension with the standard model.
- Subjects
RADIATIVE corrections; CKM matrix; ELECTROWEAK interactions; QUARKS; PHYSICS
- Publication
European Physical Journal A -- Hadrons & Nuclei, 2023, Vol 59, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1434-6001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01030-7