Status of the Los Alamos free atomic tritium beta-decay experiment

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6261403

Wilkerson, J F; Bowles, T J; Browne, J C; Burritt, T H; Cohen, J S; Helffrich, J A; Knapp, D A; Maley, M P; Martin, R L; Robertson, R G.H.

An experiment to study the beta-decay of tritium using a gaseous source of free (unbound) atomic tritium is currently underway in the Physics Division at Los Alamos. The use of free atomic tritium along with careful design of the measurement scheme should allow a definitive determination for an electron antineutrino mass approx. 10 eV.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6261403
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-84-4015; CONF-8410222-1; ON: DE85005557
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Physical Society meeting, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 31 Oct 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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