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Spectral shapes of forbidden argon beta decays as background component for rare-event searches

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J. Kostensalo, J. Suhonen, K. Zuber

Nuclear Theory · Submitted 16 May 2017

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The authors' main claim Especially the spectral shape of the Ar-39 decay can be used to characterise this background component for dark matter searches based on argon.

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CitationJ. Kostensalo, J. Suhonen, K. Zuber. "Spectral shapes of forbidden argon beta decays as background component for rare-event searches." arXiv:1705.05726 (2017). https://pith.science/paper/Y6I7NXZG
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The spectral shape of the electrons from the two first-forbidden unique beta- decays of Ar-39 and Ar-42 were calculated for the first time to the next-to-leading order. Especially the spectral shape of the Ar-39 decay can be used to characterise this background component for dark matter searches based on argon. Alternatively, due to the low thresholds of these experiments, the spectral shape can be investigated over a wide energy range with high statistics and thus allow a sensitive comparison with the theoretical predictions. This might lead to interesting results for the ratio of the weak vector and axial-vector constants in nuclei.

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s0 The spectral shape of the electrons from the two first-forbidden unique beta- decays of Ar-39 and Ar-42 were calculated for the first time to the next-to-leading order. contribution 0.92 0.92 0.23 asserted 1.00
s1 Especially the spectral shape of the Ar-39 decay can be used to characterise this background component for dark matter searches based on argon. interpretation 0.97 0.34 0.45 hedged possibility 0.54
s2 Alternatively, due to the low thresholds of these experiments, the spectral shape can be investigated over a wide energy range with high statistics and thus allow a sensitive comparison with the theoretical predictions. interpretation 0.62 0.10 0.09 asserted 0.52
s3 This might lead to interesting results for the ratio of the weak vector and axial-vector constants in nuclei. interpretation 0.93 0.10 0.15 speculative 0.97

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The spectral shape of the electrons from the two first-forbidden unique beta- decays of Ar-39 and Ar-42 were calculated for the first time to the next-to-leading order. Especially the spectral shape of the Ar-39 decay can be used to characterise this background component for dark matter searches based on argon. Alternatively, due to the low thresholds of these experiments, the spectral shape can be investigated over a wide energy range with high statistics and thus allow a sensitive comparison with the theoretical predictions. This might lead to interesting results for the ratio of the weak vector and axial-vector constants in nuclei.

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