Latest developments in MORA and gas assisted IGISOL ion production

by Luis Miguel MOTILLA, 2^d year PhD student at GANIL

Around us we see an universe filled with galaxies, stars and planets like ours. But when we look back to the Big Bang and the processes that created the matter in it, at first we observe that there should have been created the same amount of matter and antimatter, thus the universe would be empty or different than it is. Sakharov suggested several conditions to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry, one of them being the violation of the CP symmetry.

In the MORA experiment, we aim to measure the D correlation, which is non zero for violation of T symmetry in polarized nuclei, thus it can be related to CPV. For this we use a detector setup made of MCP’s, Phoswiches and Si detectors, to measure coincidences between beta emissions and recoil ions, product of the beta decay of trapped 23Mg ions.

In this talk I will present the MORA setup, how we plan to do the measurement, the challenges and successes that we encountered, and the latest experimental results acquired in JYFL, like the radioactive molecule production via gas injection in the target area.