Friday, October 22, 2004, 16:00
OSGA/E6
N. Severijns, Leuven University
Abstract:
Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model are carried out in all
energy domains, using both accelerator-based and non-accelerator
experiments. In nuclear physics a wide variety of nuclear states are
available, allowing one to optimize the sensitivity to a certain type of
new physics while at the same time limiting the possibly disturbing
contributions from nuclear structure. One can thus e.g. test unitarity,
search for new V,A type weak interactions or for scalar and tensor type
weak interactions and test time reversal violation. An overview will be
given of the status and prospects of weak interaction studies in nuclear
beta decay.