Speaker
Prof.
Gwen Grinyer
Description
Superallowed Fermi $\beta$ Decay: The precision frontier of nuclear physics
Dr. Gwen Grinyer (she/her)
Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
High precision measurements of the ft values for superallowed Fermi $\beta$ decays provide fundamental data with which to constrain the conserved vector current (CVC) hypothesis, set limits on the Standard Model description of electroweak interactions, and test unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix. In this lecture, I will present the status of the world data on the superallowed Fermi $\beta$ emitters and explain how we go from state-of-the-art measurements in the lab to extracting fundamental physics at the precision frontier.
Virtual
