Hydrogen Electron Cyclotron Resonance Dissociator Demonstrator for the Project 8 Experiment

@misc{oueslati2026hydrogen,
  title = {{Hydrogen Electron Cyclotron Resonance Dissociator Demonstrator for the Project 8 Experiment}},
  author = {Manjinder Oueslati and Walter Pettus and Anna Reine and Hamish Robertson},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.03972},
  eprint = {2611.03972},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03972},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Hydrogen Electron Cyclotron Resonance Dissociator Demonstrator for the Project 8 Experiment
AU  - Manjinder Oueslati
AU  - Walter Pettus
AU  - Anna Reine
AU  - Hamish Robertson
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/02
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.03972
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03972
AB  - Project 8, a neutrino mass experiment, employs the novel frequency technique of cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) to perform a model independent measurement of neutrino mass via tritium beta decay. Our pioneering experiment will consist of a beamline that dissociates molecular tritium, surface cools atoms through accommodation, evaporatively cools and slows atoms, and traps them in a CRES resonant cavity to advance towards our sensitivity goal of 40 meV/c^2 for our final electron-weighted neutrino mass measurement. We are prototyping an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) dissociator that uses a tunable 1 kW 2.45 GHz RF generator and electromagnets to ignite a hydrogen plasma in an aluminum resonant cavity. Our ECR source is designed to produce a high atom flux (~10^19 atoms/second) near room temperature. We present the engineering development, gas diagnostics, and spectroscopy data from our hydrogen plasma.
ER  -