Precise half-life measurement ofSn110andIn109isotopes

Precise Half-Life Measurement of Ga

In last year’s Progress Report we reported on measurements of the β-decay of Ga, including a preliminary value for its halflife [1]. We report here on an additional measurement of the half-life focused on exposing systematic effects that could affect the result. We obtained Ga from the MARS recoil spectrometer by bombarding a cooled hydrogen gas target with Zn at 42A MeV. Special care was taken...

Precise Half - Life Measurement of 22 Mg

As part of our program [1] to test CKM unitarity via superallowed ∃-decays, we reported in last year’s Progress Report [2] that we were well advanced in making a measurement of the half-life of Mg. At that time we had obtained a preliminary result but had not yet fully explored all possible systematic errors. Subsequently, an additional experiment was performed at the MARS spectrometer with our...

Precise half - life measurement of the superallowed β + emitter 10 C

Precise Half Life Measurements: the Case of C

V.E. Iacob, V. Golovko, J. Goodwin, J.C. Hardy, N. Nica, H.I. Park, L. Trache, and R.E. Tribble The half-life of C was measured as part of our program to test the unitarity of the CabibboKobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix via 0 –> 0 superallowed β transitions; the case of C is of particular interest because of its higher sensitivity to the presence of scalar currents [1]. The C half-life has been m...

HALO - a Java framework for precise transcript half-life determination

UNLABELLED Recent improvements in experimental technologies now allow measurements of de novo transcription and/or RNA decay at whole transcriptome level and determination of precise transcript half-lives. Such transcript half-lives provide important insights into the regulation of biological processes and the relative contributions of RNA decay and de novo transcription to differential gene ex...