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We review the current status of the radioisotopes program at the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF), where we utilize an electrostatic-ion-beam trap and a magneto-optical trap for studying the nuclear β-decay from trapped radioactive atoms and ions. The differential energy spectra of β’s and recoil ions emerging from the decay is sensitive to beyond standard model interactions and is complementary to high energy searches. The completed facility SARAF-II will be one of the world’s most powerful deuteron, proton and fast neutron sources, producing light radioactive isotopes in unprecedented amounts, needed for obtaining enough statistics for a high precision measurement.
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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP 2018), Aachen, Germany, 10-15 June 2018
Guest Edited by Hans Ströher, Jörg Pretz, Livia Ludhova and Achim Stahl
The work presented here is supported by grants from the Pazy Foundation (Israel), Israel Science Foundation (grants no. 139/15 and 1446/16), and the European Research Council (grant no. 714118 TRAPLAB). BO is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, under the Eshkol Fellowship.
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Ohayon, B., Chocron, J., Hirsh, T. et al. Weak interaction studies at SARAF. Hyperfine Interact 239, 57 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-018-1535-x
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