Beta Decay / Betazerfall

- Experiments on ?-decay
A. General measurements
1. Identity of ?-particles and electrons
2. Maximum energies and half-lives
3. Maximum energies and half-lives. Experimental procedure
B. Neutrino hunting
4. Neutrino emission from reactions other than nuclear ?-decay
5. Calorimetric mean energy measurements
6. Neutrino recoil experiments
7. Experiments on direct detection of neutrinos
8. Neutrino rest mass
C. Spectral shapes and ft values
9. General discussion of shape measurements
10. Allowed transitions
11. Forbidden transitions
12. Deviations from the Fermi shape
D. Polarization experiments
13. Introductory remarks
14. Electron polarization
15. The ?-decay of polarized nuclei
16. ?-?-polarization directional correlations
17. The neutron decay
18. The neutrino helicity
E. Coupling constant determination
19. Introduction
20. Polarization of ?-particles
21. The neutron decay
22. Supporting evidence
23. Concluding remarks
F. Electron capture
24. K capture
25. L/K capture ratios
26. Energy determination in electron capture
G. Related reactions
27. Double ?-decay
28. Internal bremsstrahlung
- Concluding remarks
- General references
- Sachverzeichnis (Deutsch-Englisch)
- Subject Index (English-German)