Measurement of the total electron-hydrogen scattering cross section for the Project 8 experiment
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Author(s)
Rysewyk, Devyn Marie
Advisor(s)
Joseph Formaggio.
Date Issued
2015
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Project 8 is an experiment that aims to determine the neutrino mass from a measurement of the endpoint of the tritium beta-decay continuous energy distribution. To do this, Project 8 is utilizing the cyclotron radiation of electrons in a magnetic field. In June 2014, Project 8 saw the first cyclotron radiation signals from single electrons. The frequency spectrum showed that there are frequency jumps between each track. Using the simulation package, Kassiopeia, data collected on June 2014 were compared against Monte Carlo scattering predictions. This thesis presents the analysis of these frequency jumps. This thesis also presents electron-hydrogen cross section values for the simulations and theoretical models. The cross section for the simulations is used to approximate the number density of the experiment.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2015.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-65).
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Physics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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