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· Lean TheoremPrecise determination of electron-capture Q value of ¹¹³Sn decay related to electron neutrino mass measurements
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The ground-state to ground-state electron-capture Q value of 113Sn is 1039.25(19) keV, with an allowed transition at 9.60(20) keV showing enhanced endpoint sensitivity due to proximity to L-shell binding energies.
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Core claim
The gs-to-gs Q value of 1039.25(19) keV was determined, and the allowed transition to the 1029.650(50) keV state has Q_EC^* = 9.60(20) keV with small energy differences from L1 and L2 shell bindings that enhance endpoint events; including subthreshold atomic states increases the EC rate near zero neutrino momentum by a factor of five.
Load-bearing premise
The self-consistent Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Slater method with exchange, overlap, shake-up and shake-off corrections, combined with the nuclear shell model, accurately predicts the spectral function and partial half-lives near the endpoint for this specific low-Q transition.
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A high-precision measurement of the electron-capture (EC) decay $Q$ value for the ground-state-to-ground-state (gs-to-gs) transition of $^{113}$Sn to $^{113}$In has been performed using the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap mass spectrometer. Employing the phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance technique, the isomeric state of $^{113}$Sn at 77.389(19) keV was resolved, and the cyclotron frequency ratio measured between the isomer $^{113m}$Sn and the daughter nucleus $^{113}$In. This yielded an isomer-to-ground-state $Q$ value of 1116.64(19) keV and gs-to-gs $Q$ value of 1039.25(19) keV. The atomic mass excess of $^{113}$Sn was determined as $-$88327.87(27) keV/c$^2$, in excellent agreement with the Atomic Mass Evaluation 2020 (AME2020) but with a sixfold precision improvement. Using nuclear energy-level data for $^{113}$In, we identified two low $Q$-value transitions of the ground state of $^{113}$Sn to excited states of $^{113}$In at 1024.280(50) keV ($Q_{EC}^* = 14.97(20)$ keV, second forbidden non-unique) and 1029.650(50) keV ($Q_{EC}^* = 9.60(20)$ keV, allowed). The allowed transition exhibits small energy differences ($\Delta_{L1} = 5.58(20)$ keV, $\Delta_{L2} = 5.87(20)$ keV) from L1 and L2 shell binding energies, enhancing endpoint events. Partial half-lives and energy-release spectra were calculated using the self-consistent Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Slater (DHFS) method (including exchange, overlap, shake-up, and shake-off corrections) together with the nuclear shell model, show enhanced endpoint sensitivity for the allowed transition to the state at 1029.650 keV. Including subthreshold atomic states in the spectral function enhances the EC rate near the zero-neutrino-momentum region by a factor of five, enabling new approaches for low $Q$-value EC reactions in neutrino-mass studies.
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The paper's central claim is a direct experimental determination of the gs-to-gs Q value of 1039.25(19) keV from the measured cyclotron frequency ratio between the resolved 113mSn isomer and 113In using JYFLTRAP phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance. This does not reduce to any fitted parameter, self-referential equation, or ansatz within the paper. Nuclear level data for identifying the allowed transition at Q_EC^* = 9.60(20) keV are taken from external literature, and the DHFS spectral calculations (including exchange/overlap/shake corrections) are presented as an independent illustration of endpoint sensitivity rather than a prerequisite or load-bearing step for the measured Q value. The derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks with no circular reductions.
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- domain assumption The phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance technique in a Penning trap accurately determines cyclotron frequency ratios between parent and daughter ions.
- domain assumption The self-consistent Dirac-Hartree-Fock-Slater method including exchange, overlap, shake-up and shake-off corrections, together with the nuclear shell model, correctly describes the electron-capture spectral function for low-Q transitions.
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