On ion probes and traps, barium tagging for the EXO double beta decay detector
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Enriched Xenon Observatory seeks to measure neutrino mass through observation of neutrinoless double beta decay. A new generation of ton-scale experiments are being developed, which aim to probe neutrinoless double beta decay half-lives on the order of 10^27 - 10^28 years. The keys to reaching these sensitivities are large source mass and reduction of radioactive backgrounds; this thesis details efforts to develop a system for tagging the 136-Ba+ daughter of the double beta decay of 136-Xe, for the purposes of background elimination in a large experiment.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Green, Matthew P |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Primary advisor | Gratta, Giorgio |
| Thesis advisor | Gratta, Giorgio |
| Thesis advisor | DeVoe, Ralph |
| Thesis advisor | Kasevich, Mark A |
| Advisor | DeVoe, Ralph |
| Advisor | Kasevich, Mark A |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Matthew P. Green. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Matthew Piron Green
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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