Imaging single barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in the nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
| dc.contributor.author | Walton, Timothy, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fairbank, William M., advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berger, Bruce, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Orden, Alan, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Robert, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-12T23:03:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-12T23:03:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The nEXO experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of the isotope 136Xe in a ton-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber, in order to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Detecting the daughter 136Ba of double beta decay events, called barium tagging, is a technique under investigation which would provide a veto for a background-free measurement. This would involve detecting a single barium ion from within a macroscopic volume of liquid xenon. One proposed barium tagging method is to trap the barium ion in solid xenon at the end of a cold probe, and then detect it by its fluorescence in the solid xenon. In this thesis, new studies on the spectroscopy of deposits of Ba and Ba+ in solid xenon are presented. Imaging of barium atoms in solid xenon is demonstrated with sensitivity down to the single atom level. Achievement of this level of sensitivity is a major step toward barium tagging by this method. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | doctoral dissertations | |
| dc.identifier | Walton_colostate_0053A_13458.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173350 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2000-2019 | |
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| dc.title | Imaging single barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in the nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
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