Recent Chalk River Experiments on Superallowed $0^{+} \to 0^{+}$ Beta Decays

Abstract

Two experiments, (1) a measurement of the superallowed $0^{+} \rightarrow 0^{+}$ branching ratio in $^{10}$C, and (2) a measurement of (or limit on) non-analogue $0^{+} \rightarrow 0^{+}$ branches in $^{38m}$K, $^{46}$V, $^{50}$Mn and $^{54}$Co, are described. The implications these experiments have on the test of the conservation of the weak vector current (CVC) and the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix are surveyed.

6 pages, LaTeX uses worldsci.sty, to be published in the Proceedings of the IV International Symposium on Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei, WEIN 95, held at Osaka, Japan, June 12-16, 1995