Isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi beta decay

ORAL

Abstract

We study the formalism to include isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections when extracting the up-down Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element from superallowed $0^+\rightarrow 0^+$ nuclear beta decay. We show that there are no first order isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to the relevant nuclear matrix elements. We find corrections to the treatment of Towner and Hardy, and assess these using schematic models of increasing complexity.

Authors

  • Gerald A. Miller

    Physics Department, University of Washington, Univ. of Washington

  • Achim Schwenk

    TRIUMF