beta decay theory

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Physical Review M. Morita, R.S. Morita and M. Yamada Possible Experiments for Determination of Beta Interactions

Wu suggested this work to visiting Japanese scientists. The footnote contains the best-available summary of the recent RR post-deadline paper.
 
January 16, 1934 Zeitschrift fur Physik E. Fermi Attempt at a Theory of Beta Rays

Fermi introduces theory of beta decay, including supposition of the neutrino. Translation published by Fred L. Wilson in the American Journal of Physics, Dec. 1968.
July 1, 1935 Physical Review E. J. Konopinski and G. E. Uhlenbeck On the Fermi Theory of Beta Radioactivity
June 15, 1936 Physical Review G. Gamow and E. Teller Selection Rules for the β Disintegration
 
February 15, 1937 Physical Review G. Gamow and E. Teller Some Generalizations of the Beta Transformation Theory
August 15, 1941 Physical Review E. J. Konopinski and G. E. Uhlenbeck On the Fermi Theory of Beta Radioactivity II: The “Forbidden” Spectra

Part 2 of the K-U modification for "forbidden" beta decay spectra. It led to the expectation of a tensor form in Gamow-Teller decays, which is what RR later confirmed. Later work proved both K-U and RR to be incorrect.
April 1, 1942 Physical Review R. E. Marshak Forbidden Transitions in Beta-Decay and Orbital Electron Capture and Spins of Nuclei
October 1, 1943 Reviews of Modern Physics Emil Jan Konopinski Beta-Decay

Theoretical overview of Fermi’s theory 10 years later
October 1943 Reviews of Modern Physics Emil Jan Konopinski Beta-Decay
May 1950 Physica S. R. de Groot and H. A. Tolhoek On the theory of beta-radioactivity | the use of linear combinations of invariants in the interaction Hamiltonian
December 1, 1952 Physica S. R. DE GROOT INTERFERENCE TERMS AND SYMMETRY PRINCIPLES IN THE THEORY OF BETA DECAY WITH MIXED INVARIANTS

Determination of mixing ratios of F and GT, He6 and Ne19 are needed
June 24, 1953 Physical Review E. J. Konopinski and H. M. Mahmoud The Universal Fermi Interaction

Cites significance of Rustad-Ruby result
December 1953 Annual Review of Nuclear Science E J Konopinski, L M Langer The Experimental Clarification of the Theory of beta-Decay
July 1, 1955 Reviews of Modern Physics E. J. Konopinski Fermi's Theory of Beta-Decay

1955 retrospective review of beta theory and experiment finds that He6 directional correlation experiment showing a tensor interaction is consistent with theory
1956 Mathematical-Physical Announcements O. KOFOED-HANSEN and A. WINTHER ON THE COUPLING CONSTANTS IN BETA-DECAY

Danish beta decay experts review the likely coupling constants, citing RR as determining tensor coupling in GT transitions.
1966 International Series of Monographs on Physics E. J. Konopinski The Theory of Beta Radioactivity
August 1967 Physics Today Lee Grodzins The book

Brookhaven/MIT physicist Grodzins reviews the classic 1966 work by Wu and Moszkowski,
September 1984 Physics Reports Edourdo Amaldi From the Discovery of the Neutron to the Discovery of Nuclear Fission

Survey of history of nuclear science in the 1930s
. Section 3 is beta decay and neutrinos, including a summary of later developments
1986 Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol. 1986 Allan Franklin Experiment and the Development of the Theory of Weak Interactions: Fermi’s Theory

Franklin's detailed study of theoretical errors in understanding of beta decay.
 
1996 Monographs and Texts in Physics and Astronomy C.S. Wu and S.A. Moszkowski Beta Decay

Wu's readable textbook about Beta Decay includes a historical review, including a more distant review of the He6 events
July 2005 Scientific Values and Civic Virtues Allan Franklin The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinski's Theory of Beta Decay

Franklin's study of the K-U modification of the Fermi theory, and its eventual reversal—a theoretical error that preceded the RR experimental error in the history of beta decay research.