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Report of First Data from the $^6$He-CRES Experiment and Future Outlook

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Abstract

The $^6$He-CRES collaboration is working on applying the Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy technique to determine beta spectra up to several MeV. This year we demonstrated measurements with a bandwidth approximately 4 times that shown previously by Project8, improving our ability to quickly obtain the statistical power needed for a high-precision full-spectrum measurement. This talk will present our first CRES data taken by digitizing sub-femtowatt microwave signals from the cyclotron radiation of betas in a magnetic field, as well as initial track reconstruction and analysis.

Publication: Cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy applied to searches for chirality-flipping interactions in high-energy nuclear β-decay (forthcoming)

Presenters

  • Heather S Harrington

    University of Washington

Authors

  • Heather S Harrington

    University of Washington