Impact of Størmer-induced spectral changes on beta-decay observables

Determine whether spectral changes predicted by Størmer theory for non-adiabatic electron transport translate into changes in the inferred limits on neutrino masses and in the error budgets of neutrino–electron correlation measurements derived from beta-decay experiments.

Background

Størmer theory models charged-particle motion in static dipole magnetic fields via an effective potential with a saddle, leading to complex, often chaotic, non-adiabatic trajectories. Such dynamics can alter the electron spectrum observed after magnetic transport.

The paper explicitly raises whether these Størmer-induced spectral modifications could bias or shift beta-decay observables used to extract neutrino properties, including neutrino mass limits and electron–neutrino correlation parameters, which are central to precision experiments.