Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Tagging events with the coincident detection of a barium ion would greatly reduce the background for a neutrino-less double beta decay search in xenon. This paper describes progress towards realizing this goal. It outlines a source that can produce large quantities of Ba ++ in gas, shows that this can be extracted to vacuum, and demonstrates a mechanism by which the Ba ++ can be efficiently converted to Ba + as required for laser identification.
Authors: D Sinclair, E Rollin, J Smith, A Mommers, N Ackeran, B Aharmin, M Auger, P S Barbeau, C Benitez-Medina, M Breidenbach, A Burenkov, S Cook, A Coppens, T Daniels, R DeVoe, A Dobi, M J Dolinski, K Donato, W Fairbank, J Farine, G Giroux, G Gornea, K Graham, G Gratta, M Green, C Hagemann, C Hall, K Hall, D Hallman, C Hargrove, S Herrin, L K Kaufman, D S Leonard, F LePort, D Mackay, R MacLennan, B Mong, M Montero Díez, A R Müller, R Neilson, E Niner, A Odian, K O'Sullivan, C Ouellet, A Piepke, A Pocar, C Y Prescott, K Pushkin, P C Rowson, S Slutsky, V Stekhanov, K Twelker, N Voskanian, J -L Vuilleumier, U Wichoski, J Wodin, L Yang, Y -R Yen
Institutions: TRIUMF, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Laurentian University, University of Bern, Stanford University, Colorado State University, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Maryland, College Park, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of Seoul, University of Alabama
Language: English
Topic: Neutrino Physics Research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2015683139