Development of Holmium-163 electron-capture spectroscopy with transition-edge sensors

Croce, Mark Philip; Rabin, Michael W.; Mocko, Veronika; Kunde, Gerd Joachim; Birnbaum, Eva R.; Bond, E. M.; Engle, Jonathan Ward; Hoover, Andrew Scott; Nortier, Francois Meiring; Pollington, Anthony Douglas; Taylor, Wayne Allen; Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R.; Wolfsberg, Laura Evon; Hays-Wehle, James P.; Schmidt, Dan R.; Swetz, D. S.; Ullom, Joel N.; Barnhart, Todd E.; Nickles, Robert J.

doi:10.1007/s10909-015-1451-2

Title: Development of Holmium-163 electron-capture spectroscopy with transition-edge sensors

Journal Article · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Low Temperature Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-015-1451-2· OSTI ID:1334142

Croce, Mark Philip ^[1]; Rabin, Michael W. ^[1]; Mocko, Veronika ^[1]; Kunde, Gerd Joachim ^[1]; Birnbaum, Eva R. ^[1]; Bond, E. M. ^[1]; Engle, Jonathan Ward ^[1]; Hoover, Andrew Scott ^[1]; Nortier, Francois Meiring ^[1]; Pollington, Anthony Douglas ^[1]; Taylor, Wayne Allen ^[1]; Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R. ^[1]; Wolfsberg, Laura Evon ^[1]; Hays-Wehle, James P. ^[2]; Schmidt, Dan R. ^[2]; Swetz, D. S. ^[2]; Ullom, Joel N. ^[2]; Barnhart, Todd E. ^[3]; Nickles, Robert J. ^[3]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Calorimetric decay energy spectroscopy of electron-capture-decaying isotopes is a promising method to achieve the sensitivity required for electron neutrino mass measurement. The very low total nuclear decay energy (Q_EC < 3 keV) and short half-life (4570 years) of ¹⁶³Ho make it attractive for high-precision electron-capture spectroscopy (ECS) near the kinematic endpoint, where the neutrino momentum goes to zero. In the ECS approach, an electron-capture-decaying isotope is embedded inside a microcalorimeter designed to capture and measure the energy of all the decay radiation except that of the escaping neutrino. We have developed a complete process for proton irradiation-based isotope production, isolation, and purification of ¹⁶³Ho. We have developed transition-edge sensors for this measurement and methods for incorporating ¹⁶³Ho into high-resolution microcalorimeters, and have measured the electron-capture spectrum of ¹⁶³Ho. Finally, we present our work in these areas and discuss the measured spectrum and its comparison to current theory.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1334142

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-27688

Journal Information:: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 184, Issue 3-4; ISSN 0022-2291

Publisher:: Plenum PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 27 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (22)

A new way to measure neutrino masses De Rújula, A. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 188, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(81)90002-X	journal	October 1981
Improved description of one- and two-hole excitations after electron capture in ${}^{163}{Ho}$ and the determination of the neutrino mass Faessler, Amand; Šimkovic, F. Physical Review C, Vol. 91, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.045505	journal	April 2015
Introduction to direct neutrino mass measurements and KATRIN Thümmler, T. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, Vol. 229-232 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.09.024	journal	August 2012
Direct Measurement of the Mass Difference of ${}^{163}{Ho}$ and ${}^{163}{Dy}$ Solves the $Q$ -Value Puzzle for the Neutrino Mass Determination Eliseev, S.; Blaum, K.; Block, M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.062501	journal	August 2015
Isolation of 163Ho from dysprosium target material by HPLC for neutrino mass measurements Mocko, Veronika; Taylor, Wayne A.; Nortier, Francois M. Radiochimica Acta, Vol. 103, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1515/ract-2014-2362	journal	January 2015
Radiation induced effects on mechanical properties of nanoporous gold foams Caro, M.; Mook, W. M.; Fu, E. G. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4882275	journal	June 2014
HOLMES: The electron capture decay of $$^{163}$$ 163 Ho to measure the electron neutrino mass with sub-eV sensitivity Alpert, B.; Balata, M.; Bennett, D. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 75, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3329-5	journal	March 2015
Current Direct Neutrino Mass Experiments Drexlin, G.; Hannen, V.; Mertens, S. Advances in High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013 https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/293986	journal	January 2013
Integration of Radioactive Material with Microcalorimeter Detectors Croce, M. P.; Bond, E. M.; Hoover, A. S. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 176, Issue 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-013-1045-9	journal	December 2013
Examination of the calorimetric spectrum to determine the neutrino mass in low-energy electron capture decay Robertson, R. G. H. Physical Review C, Vol. 91, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.035504	journal	March 2015
The Electron Capture $$^{163}$$ 163 Ho Experiment ECHo Gastaldo, L.; Blaum, K.; Doerr, A. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 176, Issue 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1187-4	journal	May 2014
Electron capture in ¹⁶³ Ho, overlap plus exchange corrections and neutrino mass Faessler, Amand; Gastaldo, Loredana; Šimkovic, F. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 42, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/42/1/015108	journal	December 2014
Evaluation of 163Ho production options for neutrino mass measurements with microcalorimeter detectors Engle, J. W.; Birnbaum, E. R.; Trellue, H. R. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 311 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2013.06.017	journal	September 2013
Development of Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters for High Precision Measurements of Calorimetric 187Re and 163Ho Spectra Ranitzsch, P. C. -O.; Porst, J. -P.; Kempf, S. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 167, Issue 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0556-0	journal	February 2012
Determination of the neutrino mass by electron capture in ${}^{163}{Ho}$ and the role of the three-hole states in ${}^{163}{Dy}$ Faessler, Amand; Enss, Christian; Gastaldo, Loredana Physical Review C, Vol. 91, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.064302	journal	June 2015
Calorimetric measurements of 163holmium decay as tools to determine the electron neutrino mass De Rújula, A.; Lusignoli, M. Physics Letters B, Vol. 118, Issue 4-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(82)90218-0	journal	December 1982
Measurement of the ²⁴⁰ Pu/ ²³⁹ Pu Mass Ratio Using a Transition-Edge-Sensor Microcalorimeter for Total Decay Energy Spectroscopy Hoover, Andrew S.; Bond, Evelyn M.; Croce, Mark P. Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 87, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00195	journal	March 2015
Analytical function for fitting peaks in alpha-particle spectra from Si detectors Bortels, G.; Collaers, P. International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part A. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 38, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1016/0883-2889(87)90180-8	journal	January 1987
Current Direct Neutrino Mass Experiments Drexlin, G.; Hannen, V.; Mertens, S. Karlsruhe https://doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000038801	text	January 2013
Introduction to direct neutrino mass measurements and KATRIN Thümmler, Thomas arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1012.2282	text	January 2010
Electron Capture in 163Ho and Overlap plus Exchange Corrections and the Neutrino Mass Faessler, Amand; Gastaldo, Loredana; Simkovic, M. F. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.6504	text	January 2014
Examination of the calorimetric spectrum to determine the neutrino mass in low-energy electron capture decay Robertson, R. G. H. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1411.2906	text	January 2014

Cited By (16)

Review of absolute neutrino mass measurements Fertl, Martin Hyperfine Interactions, Vol. 239, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-018-1530-2	journal	November 2018
Identification and investigation of possible ultra-low Q value β decay candidates Gamage, N. D.; Bhandari, R.; Horana Gamage, M. Hyperfine Interactions, Vol. 240, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1588-5	journal	April 2019
Design and characterization of Ion sources for CHIP-TRAP Horana Gamage, M.; Arnold, A. L.; Bhandari, R. Hyperfine Interactions, Vol. 240, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1617-4	journal	August 2019
The HOLMES Experiment Faverzani, M.; Alpert, B.; Backer, D. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 184, Issue 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-016-1540-x	journal	February 2016
MetroMMC: Electron-Capture Spectrometry with Cryogenic Calorimeters for Science and Technology Ranitzsch, P. C. -O.; Arnold, D.; Beyer, J. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 199, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-019-02278-4	journal	December 2019
A practical superconducting-microcalorimeter X-ray spectrometer for beamline and laboratory science Doriese, W. B.; Abbamonte, P.; Alpert, B. K. Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 88, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4983316	journal	May 2017
Measuring the electron neutrino mass with improved sensitivity: the HOLMES experiment Giachero, A.; Alpert, B. K.; Becker, D. T. Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 12, Issue 02 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/c02046	journal	February 2017
Working principle and demonstrator of microwave-multiplexing for the HOLMES experiment microcalorimeters Becker, D. T.; Bennett, D. A.; Biasotti, M. Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 14, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/10/p10035	journal	October 2019
High-resolution and low-background $$^{163}$$163Ho spectrum: interpretation of the resonance tails Velte, C.; Ahrens, F.; Barth, A. The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 79, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7513-x	journal	December 2019
The Use of Low Temperature Detectors for Direct Measurements of the Mass of the Electron Neutrino Nucciotti, A. Advances in High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016 https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/9153024	journal	January 2016
Production and separation of 163Ho for nuclear physics experiments Heinitz, S.; Kivel, N.; Schumann, D. PLOS ONE, Vol. 13, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200910	journal	August 2018
MetroMMC: Electron-Capture Spectrometry with Cryogenic Calorimeters for Science and Technology Ranitzsch, P. C. -O.; Arnold, D.; Beyer, J. Heidelberg : Springer Verlag https://doi.org/10.15488/10169	other	January 2019
High-resolution and low-background $^{163}$Ho spectrum: interpretation of the resonance tails Velte, C.; Ahrens, F.; Barth, A. Springer https://doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000125027	text	January 2019
MetroMMC: Electron-Capture Spectrometry with Cryogenic Calorimeters for Science and Technology Ranitzsch, P. C. -O.; Arnold, D.; Beyer, J. Springer https://doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000125021	text	January 2020
The use of low temperature detectors for direct measurements of the mass of the electron neutrino Nucciotti, Angelo arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1511.00968	text	January 2015
Working principle and demonstrator of microwave-multiplexing for the HOLMES experiment microcalorimeters Becker, D. T.; Bennett, D. A.; Biasotti, M. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1910.05217	text	January 2019

Similar Records

Measurement of the half-life of /sup 163/Ho

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983 · Phys. Rev. C; (United States) · OSTI ID:1334142

Baisden, P A; Sisson, D H; Niemeyer, S; +3 more

{sup 163}Ho based experiments

Journal Article · Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · AIP Conference Proceedings · OSTI ID:1334142

Gastaldo, Loredana

The stellar ({ital n},{gamma}) cross section of the unstable isotope {sup 163}Ho and the origin of {sup 164}Er

Journal Article · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996 · Astrophysical Journal · OSTI ID:1334142

Jaag, S; Kaeppeler, F

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Title: Development of Holmium-163 electron-capture spectroscopy with transition-edge sensors

Citation Formats

References (22)

Cited By (16)

Similar Records

Related Subjects