TAMUTRAP facility: A Penning trap facility for weak interaction studies.*

TAMUTRAP is Texas A&M University Penning trap facility (TAMUTRAP) that will be used to perform precision experiments with short lived radioactive isotopes. The initial experimental program at the TAMUTRAP facility will be to search for possible scalar currents by measuring the β-ν angular correlation parameter, a_βν , for T = 2 super-allowed β-delayed proton emitters. The information about the angular correlation parameter (a_βν) will be extracted by observing the proton energy distribution. The experiment will be centered around a unique, large bore cylindrical Penning trap with inner radius of 90 mm, which is larger than any existing trap.  This large radius Penning trap will allow full radial containment of decay products (4π acceptance) of interest, for a_βν studies. Recently, TAMUTRAP facility was commissioned and demonstrated the ability of performing high precision mass measurement using a unique, compensated cylindrical Penning trap that employs a specially optimized length/radius(l/r = 3.72) ratio in the electrode structure that is not used by any other facility. In this talk, an overview of the TAMUTRAP facility will be presented.