IU experimental nuclear physicist Walter Pettus and collaborators have released new results from the Project 8 experiment. They are developing the Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) technique as a novel method to measure the tritium beta-decay spectrum and constrain the neutrino mass. This work demonstrates the feasibility of CRES for continued investment towards a next-generation neutrino mass measurement. The unknown neutrino mass represents one of the greatest open questions in nuclear and particle physics.
Read the published article in Phys. Rev. Lett.
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