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Search for Superscreening effect in Superconductor
4 pages, 3 figures, Expérience au GANIL avec SPIRAL/EXOGAMThe decay of O() and Ne() implanted in niobium in its superconducting and metallic phase was measured using purified radioactive beams produced by the SPIRAL/GANIL facility. Half-lives and branching ratios measured in the two phases are consistent within one-sigma error bar. This measurement casts strong doubts on the predicted strong electron screening in superconductor, the so-called superscreening. The measured difference in screening potential energy is 110(90) eV for Ne and 400(320) eV for O. Precise determinations of the half-lives were obtained for O: 26.476(9)~s and Ne: 17.254(5)~s