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Determining the neutrino mass with cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy-Project 8
- A. A. Esfahani, D. Asner, +41 authors E. Zayas
- Physics
- 6 March 2017
The most sensitive direct method to establish the absolute neutrino mass is observation of the endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum. Cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) is a… Expand
Clock, Flip-Flop, and Combinatorial Logic Contributions to the SEU Cross Section in 90 nm ASIC Technology
- D. Hansen, E. Miller, +18 authors E. Zayas
- Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- 8 December 2009
Utilizing an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with 140 different shift chains, and a wide variety of test modes, a design of experiments (DOE) approach was used to characterize a… Expand
Electron Radiated Power in Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy Experiments
- A. A. Esfahani, V. Bansal, +38 authors E. Zayas
- Physics
- 9 January 2019
The recently developed technique of Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) uses frequency information from the cyclotron motion of an electron in a magnetic bottle to infer its kinetic… Expand
Effectiveness of flipped classroom techniques in an advanced laboratory physics course
- Sean P Robinson, G. Roland, C. Bosse, E. Zayas
- Physics
- 17 November 2015
We report preliminary observations of changes in responses to student surveys over a five year period in an advanced laboratory course for third-year physics majors at the Massachusetts Institute of… Expand
Track Reconstruction Progress from the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment
- C. Deaconu, G. Druitt, +5 authors E. Zayas
- Physics
- 1 March 2015
Abstract The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing prototype detectors to measure both the energies and directions of nuclear recoils. The intended application is to… Expand
An analysis of the sensitivity of a low pressure time projection chamber to a directional anisotropy due to WIMP interactions
- E. Zayas
- Physics
- 2015
The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is a dark matter direct detection effort which develops TPCs to observe and reconstruct nuclear recoils generated by incident particles.… Expand
Results from the Project 8 phase-1 cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy detector
- A. A. Esfahani, S. Boser, +27 authors E. Zayas
- Physics, Materials Science
- 16 March 2017
The Project 8 collaboration seeks to measure the absolute neutrino mass scale by means of precision spectroscopy of the beta decay of tritium. Our technique, cyclotron radiation emission… Expand
Project 8 Phase III Design Concept
- A. A. Esfahani, S. Boser, +27 authors E. Zayas
- Physics, Engineering
- 16 March 2017
We present a working concept for Phase III of the Project 8 experiment, aiming to achieve a neutrino mass sensitivity of $2~\mathrm{eV}$ ($90~\%$ C.L.) using a large volume of molecular tritium and a… Expand
A novel description and mathematical analysis of the Fractional Discrete Fourier Transform
- Evan M. Zayas
- Mathematics
- 26 September 2019
I discuss the nature of a Fractional Discrete Fourier Transform (FrDFT) described algorithmically by a combination of chirp transforms and ordinary DFTs. The transform is shown to be consistent with… Expand
Project 8 detector upgrades for a tritium beta decay spectrum using cyclotron radiation
- A. A. Esfahani, S. Boser, +27 authors E. Zayas
- Physics
- 16 March 2017
Following the successful observation of single conversion electrons from $^{83m}$Kr using Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES), Project 8 is now advancing its focus toward a tritium beta… Expand