TY - JOUR
T1 - Determining the neutrino mass with cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy - Project 8
AU - Esfahani, Ali Ashtari
AU - Asner, David M.
AU - Böser, Sebastian
AU - Cervantes, Raphael
AU - Claessens, Christine
AU - De Viveiros, Luiz
AU - Doe, Peter J.
AU - Doeleman, Shepard
AU - Fernandes, Justin L.
AU - Fertl, Martin
AU - Finn, Erin C.
AU - Formaggio, Joseph A.
AU - Furse, Daniel
AU - Guigue, Mathieu
AU - Heeger, Karsten M.
AU - Jones, A. Mark
AU - Kazkaz, Kareem
AU - Kofron, Jared A.
AU - Lamb, Callum
AU - Laroque, Benjamin H.
AU - Machado, Eric
AU - McBride, Elizabeth L.
AU - Miller, Michael L.
AU - Monreal, Benjamin
AU - Mohanmurthy, Prajwal
AU - Nikkel, James A.
AU - Oblath, Noah S.
AU - Pettus, Walter C.
AU - Robertson, R. G.Hamish
AU - Rosenberg, Leslie J.
AU - Rybka, Gray
AU - Rysewyk, Devyn
AU - Saldaña, Luis
AU - Slocum, Penny L.
AU - Sternberg, Matthew G.
AU - Tedeschi, Jonathan R.
AU - Thümmler, Thomas
AU - Vandevender, Brent A.
AU - Vertatschitsch, Laura E.
AU - Wachtendonk, Megan
AU - Weintroub, Jonathan
AU - Woods, Natasha L.
AU - Young, André
AU - Zayas, Evan M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2017/3/30
Y1 - 2017/3/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1088/1361-6471/aa5b4f
DO - 10.1088/1361-6471/aa5b4f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018506752
SN - 0954-3899
VL - 44
JO - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
JF - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
IS - 5
M1 - 054004
ER -