Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector
The Project 8 collaboration seeks to measure the absolute neutrino mass scale by means of precision spectroscopy of the beta decay of tritium. Our technique, cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy, measures the frequency of the radiation emitted by electrons produced by decays in an ambient magne...
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| author | Ashtari Esfahani, A Böser, S Claessens, C de Viveiros, L Doe, P J Doeleman, S Fertl, M Finn, E C Formaggio, Joseph A Guigue, M Heeger, K M Jones, A M Kazkaz, K LaRoque, B H Machado, E Monreal, B Nikkel, J A Oblath, N S Robertson, R G H Rosenberg, L J Rybka, G Saldaña, L Slocum, P L Tedeschi, J R Thümmler, T Vandevender, B A Wachtendonk, M Weintroub, J Young, A Zayas, Evan M. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Ashtari Esfahani, A Böser, S Claessens, C de Viveiros, L Doe, P J Doeleman, S Fertl, M Finn, E C Formaggio, Joseph A Guigue, M Heeger, K M Jones, A M Kazkaz, K LaRoque, B H Machado, E Monreal, B Nikkel, J A Oblath, N S Robertson, R G H Rosenberg, L J Rybka, G Saldaña, L Slocum, P L Tedeschi, J R Thümmler, T Vandevender, B A Wachtendonk, M Weintroub, J Young, A Zayas, Evan M. |
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| description | The Project 8 collaboration seeks to measure the absolute neutrino mass scale by means of precision spectroscopy of the beta decay of tritium. Our technique, cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy, measures the frequency of the radiation emitted by electrons produced by decays in an ambient magnetic field. Because the cyclotron frequency is inversely proportional to the electron's Lorentz factor, this is also a measurement of the electron's energy. In order to demonstrate the viability of this technique, we have assembled and successfully operated a prototype system, which uses a rectangular waveguide to collect the cyclotron radiation from internal conversion electrons emitted from a gaseous 83mKr source. Here we present the main design aspects of the first phase prototype, which was operated during parts of 2014 and 2015. We will also discuss the procedures used to analyze these data, along with the features which have been observed and the performance achieved to date. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1212622022-09-28T18:34:57Z Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector Ashtari Esfahani, A Böser, S Claessens, C de Viveiros, L Doe, P J Doeleman, S Fertl, M Finn, E C Formaggio, Joseph A Guigue, M Heeger, K M Jones, A M Kazkaz, K LaRoque, B H Machado, E Monreal, B Nikkel, J A Oblath, N S Robertson, R G H Rosenberg, L J Rybka, G Saldaña, L Slocum, P L Tedeschi, J R Thümmler, T Vandevender, B A Wachtendonk, M Weintroub, J Young, A Zayas, Evan M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science The Project 8 collaboration seeks to measure the absolute neutrino mass scale by means of precision spectroscopy of the beta decay of tritium. Our technique, cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy, measures the frequency of the radiation emitted by electrons produced by decays in an ambient magnetic field. Because the cyclotron frequency is inversely proportional to the electron's Lorentz factor, this is also a measurement of the electron's energy. In order to demonstrate the viability of this technique, we have assembled and successfully operated a prototype system, which uses a rectangular waveguide to collect the cyclotron radiation from internal conversion electrons emitted from a gaseous 83mKr source. Here we present the main design aspects of the first phase prototype, which was operated during parts of 2014 and 2015. We will also discuss the procedures used to analyze these data, along with the features which have been observed and the performance achieved to date. 2019-06-12T18:54:00Z 2019-06-12T18:54:00Z 2017-09 2019-03-21T18:32:14Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1742-6588 1742-6596 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121262 Ashtari Esfahani, A. et al. “Results from the Project 8 Phase-1 Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy Detector.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 888 (September 2017): 012074 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012074 Journal of Physics: Conference Series Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf IOP Publishing IOP Publishing |
| spellingShingle | Ashtari Esfahani, A Böser, S Claessens, C de Viveiros, L Doe, P J Doeleman, S Fertl, M Finn, E C Formaggio, Joseph A Guigue, M Heeger, K M Jones, A M Kazkaz, K LaRoque, B H Machado, E Monreal, B Nikkel, J A Oblath, N S Robertson, R G H Rosenberg, L J Rybka, G Saldaña, L Slocum, P L Tedeschi, J R Thümmler, T Vandevender, B A Wachtendonk, M Weintroub, J Young, A Zayas, Evan M. Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| title | Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| title_full | Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| title_fullStr | Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| title_short | Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| title_sort | results from the project 8 phase 1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121262 |
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