FIZIKA B 12 (2003)  1, 33 - 38

MEASUREMENT OF THE HALF-LIFE OF ⁸Li

H. WINNEFELD^a, R. VEITH^a, H. J. JÄNSCH^a, J. J. PAGGEL^a,b and D. FICK^a,c

^aPhilipps-Universität, Fachbereich Physik, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
^bPresent address: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Experimentalphysik,
D-14195 Berlin, Germany
^cPhysics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Paper devoted to honour the memory of Professor Nikola Cindro

Received 18 June 2002; revised manuscript received 20 January 2003;    
Accepted 24 February 2003        Online 20 September 2003

The b-decay half-life of ⁸Li has been measured along with in a b-NMR experiment, using thermal ⁸Li atoms adsorbed in ultra-high vacuum on a silicon single-crystal surface. A special hardware-based scaler electronics was used to circumvent part of the dead-time corrections. The half-life is found to be (839.60±1.06)ms, in accordance with previous experiments.

PACS numbers: 21.10.-k, 21.10.Tg, 27.20.+n
UDC 539.165

Keywords: ⁸Li, beta-decay half-life

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