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Direct decay-energy measurement as a route to the neutrino mass

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A high-precision measurement of the 131Cs→131Xe ground-to-ground-state electron-capture QEC-value was performed using the ISOLTRAP mass spectrometer at ISOLDE/CERN. The novel PI-ICR technique allowed to reach a relative mass precision δm/m of 1.4 ⋅ 10− 9. A mass resolving power m/Δm exceeding 1 ⋅ 107 was obtained in only 1s trapping time. Allowed electron-capture transitions with sub-keV or lower decay energies are of high interest for the direct determination of the νe mass. The new measurement improves the uncertainty on the ground-to-ground-state QEC-value by a factor 25 precluding the 131Cs→131Xe pair as a feasible candidate for the direct determination of the νe mass.

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We thank the ISOLDE technical group and the ISOLDE Collaboration for their professional help. We acknowledge support by the Max Planck Society, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (05P12HGCI1, 05P12HGFNE, and 05P15ODCIA), the French IN2P3, the ExtreMe Matter Institute (EMMI) at GSI, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (654002). Jonas Karthein acknowledges the support by a Wolfgang Gentner Ph.D scholarship of the BMBF (05E12CHA).

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  1. D. Atanasov & V. Manea

    Present address: KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- & Stralingsfysica, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

  2. M. Mougeot

    Present address: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

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  1. CERN, Route de Meyrin, 1211, Genève, Switzerland

    J. Karthein, V. Manea, A. Welker & F. Wienholtz

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    J. Karthein, K. Blaum, S. Eliseev & P. Filianin

  3. Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    D. Atanasov, A. Welker & K. Zuber

  4. CSNSM-IN2P3-CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91400, Orsay, France

    D. Lunney & M. Mougeot

  5. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany

    D. Neidherr

  6. Department of Physics, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, 198504, Russia

    Y. Novikov

  7. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188300, St Petersburg, Russia

    Y. Novikov

  8. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Greifswald, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

    L. Schweikhard & F. Wienholtz

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Karthein, J., Atanasov, D., Blaum, K. et al. Direct decay-energy measurement as a route to the neutrino mass. Hyperfine Interact 240, 61 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1601-z

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