Tritium Beta Spectrum Measurement and Neutrino Mass Limit from Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy.

Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
08 Sep 2023
Historique:
received: 22 03 2023
revised: 26 06 2023
accepted: 17 07 2023
medline: 23 9 2023
pubmed: 23 9 2023
entrez: 22 9 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The absolute scale of the neutrino mass plays a critical role in physics at every scale, from the subatomic to the cosmological. Measurements of the tritium end-point spectrum have provided the most precise direct limit on the neutrino mass scale. In this Letter, we present advances by Project 8 to the cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) technique culminating in the first frequency-based neutrino mass limit. With only a cm^{3}-scale physical detection volume, a limit of m_{β}<155  eV/c^{2} (152  eV/c^{2}) is extracted from the background-free measurement of the continuous tritium beta spectrum in a Bayesian (frequentist) analysis. Using ^{83m}Kr calibration data, a resolution of 1.66±0.19  eV (FWHM) is measured, the detector response model is validated, and the efficiency is characterized over the multi-keV tritium analysis window. These measurements establish the potential of CRES for a high-sensitivity next-generation direct neutrino mass experiment featuring low background and high resolution.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.102502 PMID: 37739382
pubmed: 37739382
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.102502
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

102502

Auteurs

A Ashtari Esfahani (A)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

S Böser (S)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

N Buzinsky (N)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

M C Carmona-Benitez (MC)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

C Claessens (C)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

L de Viveiros (L)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

P J Doe (PJ)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

M Fertl (M)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

J A Formaggio (JA)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

J K Gaison (JK)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

L Gladstone (L)

Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

M Grando (M)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

M Guigue (M)

Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France.

J Hartse (J)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

K M Heeger (KM)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

X Huyan (X)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

J Johnston (J)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

A M Jones (AM)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

K Kazkaz (K)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.

B H LaRoque (BH)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

M Li (M)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

A Lindman (A)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

E Machado (E)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

A Marsteller (A)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

C Matthé (C)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

R Mohiuddin (R)

Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

B Monreal (B)

Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

R Mueller (R)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

J A Nikkel (JA)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

E Novitski (E)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

N S Oblath (NS)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

J I Peña (JI)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

W Pettus (W)

Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter and Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.

R Reimann (R)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

R G H Robertson (RGH)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

D Rosa De Jesús (D)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

G Rybka (G)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

L Saldaña (L)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

M Schram (M)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

P L Slocum (PL)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

J Stachurska (J)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Y-H Sun (YH)

Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

P T Surukuchi (PT)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

J R Tedeschi (JR)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

A B Telles (AB)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

F Thomas (F)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

M Thomas (M)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

L A Thorne (LA)

Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

T Thümmler (T)

Institute of Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.

L Tvrznikova (L)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.

W Van De Pontseele (W)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

B A VanDevender (BA)

Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.

J Weintroub (J)

Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

T E Weiss (TE)

Wright Laboratory and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

T Wendler (T)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

A Young (A)

Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

E Zayas (E)

Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

A Ziegler (A)

Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

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