An apparatus to manipulate and identify individual Ba ions from bulk liquid Xe

K Twelker¹, S Kravitz¹, M Montero Díez¹, G Gratta¹, W Fairbank Jr², J B Albert³, D J Auty⁴, P S Barbeau⁵, D Beck⁶, C Benitez-Medina², M Breidenbach⁷, T Brunner¹, G F Cao⁸, C Chambers², B Cleveland⁹, M Coon⁶, A Craycraft², T Daniels¹⁰, S J Daugherty³, C G Davis¹¹, R DeVoe¹, S Delaquis¹², T Didberidze⁴, J Dilling¹³, M J Dolinski¹⁴, M Dunford¹⁵, L Fabris¹⁶, J Farine⁹, W Feldmeier¹⁷, P Fierlinger¹⁷, D Fudenberg¹, G Giroux¹², R Gornea¹², K Graham¹⁵, C Hall¹¹, M Heffner¹⁸, S Herrin⁷, M Hughes⁴, X S Jiang⁸, T N Johnson³, S Johnston¹⁰, A Karelin¹⁹, L J Kaufman³, R Killick¹⁵, T Koffas¹⁵, R Krücken¹³, A Kuchenkov¹⁹, K S Kumar¹⁰, D S Leonard²⁰, F Leonard¹⁵, C Licciardi¹⁵, Y H Lin¹⁴, R MacLellan⁷, M G Marino¹⁷, B Mong⁹, D Moore¹, A Odian⁷, I Ostrovskiy¹, C Ouellet¹⁵, A Piepke⁴, A Pocar¹⁰, F Retiere¹³, P C Rowson⁷, M P Rozo¹⁵, A Schubert¹, D Sinclair¹³, E Smith¹⁴, V Stekhanov¹⁹, M Tarka⁶, T Tolba¹², D Tosi¹, J-L Vuilleumier¹², J Walton⁶, T Walton², M Weber¹, L J Wen⁸, U Wichoski⁹, L Yang⁶, Y-R Yen¹⁴, Y B Zhao⁸

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
² Physics Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
³ Physics Department and CEEM, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics, Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
⁶ Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA.
⁷ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
⁸ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.
⁹ Department of Physics, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada.
¹⁰ Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
¹¹ Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
¹² LHEP, Albert Einstein Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹³ TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
¹⁵ Physics Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
¹⁶ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.
¹⁷ Physik Department and Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universitat Munchen, Garching, Germany.
¹⁸ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
¹⁹ Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
²⁰ Department of Physics, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.

PMID: 25273779
DOI: 10.1063/1.4895646

An apparatus to manipulate and identify individual Ba ions from bulk liquid Xe

K Twelker et al. Rev Sci Instrum. 2014 Sep.

. 2014 Sep;85(9):095114.

doi: 10.1063/1.4895646.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
² Physics Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
³ Physics Department and CEEM, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics, Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
⁶ Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA.
⁷ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
⁸ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.
⁹ Department of Physics, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada.
¹⁰ Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
¹¹ Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
¹² LHEP, Albert Einstein Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹³ TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
¹⁵ Physics Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
¹⁶ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.
¹⁷ Physik Department and Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universitat Munchen, Garching, Germany.
¹⁸ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
¹⁹ Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
²⁰ Department of Physics, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.

PMID: 25273779
DOI: 10.1063/1.4895646

Abstract

We describe a system to transport and identify barium ions produced in liquid xenon, as part of R&D towards the second phase of a double beta decay experiment, nEXO. The goal is to identify the Ba ion resulting from an extremely rare nuclear decay of the isotope (136)Xe, hence providing a confirmation of the occurrence of the decay. This is achieved through Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (RIS). In the test setup described here, Ba ions can be produced in liquid xenon or vacuum and collected on a clean substrate. This substrate is then removed to an analysis chamber under vacuum, where laser-induced thermal desorption and RIS are used with time-of-flight mass spectroscopy for positive identification of the barium decay product.

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