Speaker
Federico Simioni
(UNIPD, INFN LNL)
Description
Inverse beta decay (IBD) is a crucial process historically employed to study neutrinos.
For example, discrepancies between measured and expected IBD rates on $^{71}$Ga, the so-called gallium anomaly, suggest the possible existence of sterile neutrinos. A recent publication showed that the poorly known associated Nuclear Matrix Element (NME) can be extracted measuring the decay width from the Isobaric Analog State (IAS) in $^{71}$Ge. In this talk, I will present the current results from the experiment 24.027 carried out in February 2025 and aimed at studying the feasibility of this measurement.
Authors
Damiano Stramaccioni
(UniPd, INFN Legnaro)
Federico Simioni
(UNIPD, INFN LNL)
Prof.
José Javier Valiente-Dobon
(IFIC, CSIC-University of Valencia)