Experiment to measure the electron neutrino mass using frozen tritium
Abstract
We are performing an experiment to determine the electron neutrino mass with the precision of a few eV by measuring the tritium beta decay energy distribution near the endpoint. To make this measurement, we have built a spectrometer with a resolution of 2 eV. Our source is frozen tritium since tritium and the HeT/sup +/ daughter ion have electronic wavefunctions that can be calculated with high accuracy. We describe the experiment and discuss the excited final molecular state calculations.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Rockefeller Univ., New York (USA); Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA); Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5921706
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-91950; CONF-8410222-11
ON: DE85007274
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Physical Society meeting, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 31 Oct 1984; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; MASS; TRITIUM; BETA-MINUS DECAY; BINDING ENERGY; ELECTRON SPECTROMETERS; FERMI PLOT; HELIUM TRITIDES; MEASURING METHODS; MOLECULAR IONS; ROTATIONAL STATES; BETA DECAY; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHARGED PARTICLES; DECAY; DIAGRAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY; ENERGY LEVELS; EXCITED STATES; FERMIONS; HELIUM COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; IONS; ISOTOPES; LABELLED COMPOUNDS; LEPTONS; LIGHT NUCLEI; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; RARE GAS COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETERS; TRITIUM COMPOUNDS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 645102* - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Experimental- Weak Interactions & Properties; 651222 - Nuclear Properties & Reactions, A=1-5, Experimental- Radioactive Decay- (-1987)
Citation Formats
Fackler, O, Sticker, H, Mugge, M, White, R M, and Woerner, R. Experiment to measure the electron neutrino mass using frozen tritium. United States: N. p., 1985.
Web.
Fackler, O, Sticker, H, Mugge, M, White, R M, & Woerner, R. Experiment to measure the electron neutrino mass using frozen tritium. United States.
Fackler, O, Sticker, H, Mugge, M, White, R M, and Woerner, R. 1985.
"Experiment to measure the electron neutrino mass using frozen tritium". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5921706.
@article{osti_5921706,
title = {Experiment to measure the electron neutrino mass using frozen tritium},
author = {Fackler, O and Sticker, H and Mugge, M and White, R M and Woerner, R},
abstractNote = {We are performing an experiment to determine the electron neutrino mass with the precision of a few eV by measuring the tritium beta decay energy distribution near the endpoint. To make this measurement, we have built a spectrometer with a resolution of 2 eV. Our source is frozen tritium since tritium and the HeT/sup +/ daughter ion have electronic wavefunctions that can be calculated with high accuracy. We describe the experiment and discuss the excited final molecular state calculations.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5921706},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985}
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