Project 8: Precision electron specroscopy to measure the mass of the neutrino
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- Fleming, B.
Abstract
The Project 8 Collaboration is exploring a new technique for the spectroscopy of medium-energy electrons (∼ 1 - 100 keV) with the ultimate goal of measuring the effective mass of the electron antineutrino by the tritium endpoint method. Our method is based on the detection of microwave-frequency cyclotron radiation emitted by magnetically trapped electrons. The immediate goal of Project 8 is to demonstrate the utility of this technique for a tritium endpoint experiment through a high-precision measurement of the conversion electron spectrum of ^(83)mKr . We present concepts for detecting this cyclotron radiation, focusing on a guided wave design currently being implemented in a prototype apparatus at the University of Washington.
Additional Information
© 2013 AIP Publishing LLC. Project 8 research is supported by the NSF, DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, an MIT Wade Award and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830.Attached Files
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- 66280
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- NSF
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Northwest National Laboratory Laboratory
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC05-76RL01830
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2016-04-19Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 1560