High Precision Penning Trap Measurements of beta-decay Q-values for Neutrino Physics
The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. This fact has wide reaching implications for the standard model of particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology. However, important fundamental questions remain: What is the absolute neutrino mass scale? Is the neutrino a Majorana or a Dirac particle? A number of large-scale experiments are underway or are being developed to attempt to answer these questions. Two classes of experiments are direct neutrino mass determination experiments, and searches for neutrinoless double betadecay. This work aimed to aid these experiments via high-precision Q value determinations for the relevant isotopes using Penning trap mass spectrometry (PTMS).
- Research Organization:
- Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC00159274
- OSTI ID:
- 1865587
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-CMU-15927; TRN: US2308590
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
-decay values among the Ti-V-Cr isobaric triplet and atomic masses of , and
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journal | October 2017 |
Identification and investigation of possible ultra-low Q value β decay candidates
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journal | April 2019 |
Investigation of the potential ultralow -value -decay candidates and using Penning trap mass spectrometry
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journal | August 2019 |
Direct determination of the -decay value using Penning trap mass spectrometry
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journal | July 2019 |
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