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Determining the neutrino mass with cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy—Project 8

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Esfashani, Ali Ashtari; Asner, David M; Böser, Sebastian; Cervantes, Raphael; Claessens, Christine; de Viveiros, Luiz; Doe, Peter J; Doeleman, Shepard; Fernandes, Justin L; Fertl, Martin; Finn, Erin C; Guigue, Mathieu; Heeger, Karsten M; Jones, A Mark; Kazkaz, Kareem; Kofron, Jared A; Lamb, Callum; LaRoque, Benjamin H; Machado, Eric; McBride, Elizabeth L; Miller, Michael L; Nikkel, James A; Pettus, Walter C; Robertson, R G Hamish; Rosenberg, Leslie J; Rybka, Gray; Saldaña, Luis; Slocum, Penny L; Sternberg, Matthew G; Tedeschi, Jonathan R; Thümmler, Thomas; VanDevender, Brent A; Vertatschitsch, Laura E; Wachtendonk, Megan; Weintroub, Jonathan; Woods, Natasha L; Young, André; Formaggio, Joseph A; Furse, Daniel Lawrence; Mohanmurthy, Prajwal Thyagarthi; Solomon-Oblath, Noah; Rysewyk, Devyn M.; Zayas, Evan M.; Monreal, Benjamin, 1977-; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
The most sensitive direct method to establish the absolute neutrino mass is observation of the endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum. Cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) is a precision spectrographic technique that can probe much of the unexplored neutrino mass range with O(eV) resolution. A lower bound of m(νe) ≳ 9(0.1) meV is set by observations of neutrino oscillations, while the KATRIN experiment-the current-generation tritium beta-decay experiment that is based on magnetic adiabatic collimation with an electrostatic (MAC-E) filter-will achieve a sensitivity of m(νe) ≲ 0.2 eV. The CRES technique aims to avoid the difficulties in scaling up a MAC-E filter-based experiment to achieve a lower mass sensitivity. In this paper we review the current status of the CRES technique and describe Project 8, a phased absolute neutrino mass experiment that has the potential to reach sensitivities down to m(νe) ≲ 40 meV using an atomic tritium source.
Date issued
2017-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118366
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Citation
Esfahani, Ali Ashtari et al. “Determining the Neutrino Mass with Cyclotron Radiation Emission spectroscopy—Project 8.” Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 44, 5 (March 2017): 054004 © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0954-3899
1361-6471

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