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两个辐射中子衰变实验的比较

Comparison of two experiments on radiative neutron decay

R. U. Khafizov, S. V. Tolokonnikov, V. A. Solovei, M. R. Kolhidashvili

摘要:

十多年前,我们在文献[1,2]中提出了测量辐射中子衰变特性的实验。与此同时,我们发表了在电弱相互作用框架内计算的辐射伽马量子的理论谱,在此基础上,我们提出了未来实验的方法[3,4]。然而,由于我们在ILL(法国格勒诺布尔)的强冷中子束上被拒绝了数年,我们只能在2005年在慕尼黑工业大学新开放的FRMII反应堆上进行实验。该实验的主要结果是发现了辐射中子衰变,并测量了其相对强度B.R.= (3.2+-1.6 10 -3,C.L.= 99.7%的辐射伽马量子能量超过35 kev [5,6]。在我们第一次宣布实验结果的一年多后,《自然》杂志[7]发表了一封信,声称其作者也测量了辐射中子衰变的分支比B.R.= (3.13+-0.34 10 -3,C.L.= 68%和伽马量子能量从15到340 keV。本文旨在比较这两个实验。结果表明,在NIST(Washington,USA)实验方法中使用强磁场不仅妨碍了对辐射中子衰变事件的分支比和识别的精确测量,而且也使得普通中子衰变事件的登记成为不可能。

英文摘要:

Over 10 years ago we proposed an experiment on measuring the characteristics of radiative neutron decay in papers [1, 2]. At the same time we had published the theoretical spectrum of radiative gamma quanta, calculated within the framework of the electroweak interactions, on the basis of which we proposed the methodology for the future experiment [3,4]. However, because we were denied beam time on the intensive cold neutron beam at ILL (Grenoble, France) for a number of years, we could only conduct the experiment in 2005 on the newly opened FRMII reactor of Technical University of Muenchen. The main result of this experiment was the discovery of radiative neutron decay and the measurement of its relative intensity B.R.= (3.2+-1.6)10-3 with C.L.=99.7% for radiative gamma quanta with energy over 35 kev [5,6]. Over a year after our first announcement about the results of the conducted experiment, "Nature" [7] published a letter asserting that its authors have also measured the branching ratio of radiative neutron decay B.R.= (3.13+-0.34)10-3 with C.L.=68% and gamma quanta energy from 15 to 340 kev. This article aims to compare these two experiments. It is shown that the use of strong magnetic fields in the NIST (Washington, USA) experiment methodology not only prevents any exact measurement of the branching ratio and identification of radiative neutron decay events, but also makes registration of ordinary neutron decay events impossible.

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