Weak interaction studies at SARAF

TL;DR

This paper reviews the status of radioisotope research at SARAF, focusing on decay studies using advanced traps, and discusses the upcoming SARAF-II facility's capabilities for high-precision nuclear physics experiments.

Contribution

It presents the current experimental setup at SARAF and highlights the potential of SARAF-II as a powerful source for high-statistics radioactive isotope studies.

Findings

Differential energy spectra are sensitive to beyond standard model interactions.

SARAF-II will produce unprecedented amounts of light radioactive isotopes.

The facility enables high-precision measurements of nuclear beta decay.

Abstract

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 $\beta$-decay from trapped radioactive atoms and ions. The differential energy spectra of $\beta$'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.