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Primary goal of the WITCH experiment is to test the Standard Model for a possible admixture of a scalar or tensor type interaction in β-decay. This information will be inferred from the shape of the recoil energy spectrum. The experimental setup was completed and is under intensive commissioning at ISOLDE (CERN). It combines a Penning trap to store the ions and a retardation spectrometer to probe the recoil ion energy. A brief overview of the WITCH set-up and the results of commissioning tests performed until now are presented. Finally, perspectives of the physics program are reviewed.
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Kozlov, V.Y. et al. (2007). The WITCH experiment: towards weak interactions studies. Status and prospects. In: Dilling, J., Comyn, M., Thompson, J., Gwinner, G. (eds) TCP 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73466-6_2
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