Weak interaction studies at SARAF


  Ben Ohayon  ,  Joel Chocron  ,  Tsviki Hirsh  ,  AyalaGlick-Magid  ,  Yonatan Mishnayot  ,  Ish Mukul  ,  Hitesh Rahangdale  ,  Sergey Vaintraub  ,  Oded Heber  ,  Doron Gazit  ,  Guy Ron  
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Yavne 81800, Israel
TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, Canada
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

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.