We present a new measurement of the positive muon magnetic anomaly, a µ ≡ (gµ − 2)/2, from the Fermilab Muon g −2 Experiment based on data collected in 2019 and 2020. We have analyzed more than four times the number of positrons from muon decay than in our previous result from 2018 data. The systematic error is reduced by more than a factor of two due to better running conditions, a more stable beam, and improved knowledge of the magnetic field weighted by the muon distribution, ω′ p , and of the anomalous precession frequency corrected for beam dynamics effects, ωa. From the ratio ωa/ω ′ p , together with precisely determined external parameters, we determine a µ = 116 592 057(25) × 10 −11 (0.21 ppm). Combining this result with our previous result from the 2018 data, we obtain a µ (FNAL) = 116 592 055(24) × 10 −11 (0.20 ppm). The new experimental world average is aµ(Exp) = 116 592 059(22) × 10 −11 (0.19 ppm), which represents a factor of two improvement in precision.
We present the result of an experiment to measure the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron at the Paul Scherrer Institute using Ramsey's method of separated oscillating magnetic fields with ultracold neutrons. Our measurement stands in the long history of EDM experiments probing physics violating timereversal invariance. The salient features of this experiment were the use of a 199 Hg comagnetometer and an array of optically pumped cesium vapor magnetometers to cancel and correct for magnetic-field changes. The statistical analysis was performed on blinded datasets by two separate groups, while the estimation of systematic effects profited from an unprecedented knowledge of the magnetic field. The measured value of the neutron EDM is d n ¼ ð0.0 AE 1.1 stat AE 0.2 sys Þ × 10 −26 e:cm.
Abstract. 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 precision spectrographic technique that can probe much of the unexplored neutrino mass range with O(eV) resolution. A lower bound of m(ν e ) 9(0.1) meV is set by observations of neutrino oscillations, while the KATRIN Experiment -the current-generation tritium beta-decay experiment that is based on Magnetic Adiabatic Collimation with an Electrostatic (MAC-E) filter -will achieve a arXiv:1703.02037v1 [physics.ins-det]
It has been understood since 1897 that accelerating charges must emit electromagnetic radiation. Although first derived in 1904, cyclotron radiation from a single electron orbiting in a magnetic field has never been observed directly. We demonstrate single-electron detection in a novel radio-frequency spectrometer. The relativistic shift in the cyclotron frequency permits a precise electron energy measurement. Precise beta electron spectroscopy from gaseous radiation sources is a key technique in modern efforts to measure the neutrino mass via the tritium decay end point, and this work demonstrates a fundamentally new approach to precision beta spectroscopy for future neutrino mass experiments. For over a century, nuclear decay electron spectroscopy has played a pivotal role in the understanding of nuclear physics. Early measurements of the continuous β-decay spectrum [1] provided the first evidence of the existence of the weak force and the neutrino [2], and immediately hinted that the neutrino mass is small. Continuing this tradition, present efforts to directly measure the mass of the neutrino rely on precision spectroscopy of the β-decay energy spectrum of 3 H. Because the value of the neutrino mass is an input to the standard model of particle physics as well as precision cosmology, a precision measurement of the neutrino mass would represent a significant advance in our description of nature.The sensitivity of 3 H -based neutrino mass measurements has been improving over the past 80 years as a result of increasingly powerful electron spectrometry techniques [3][4][5][6]. The most sensitive experiments to date place a limit on the electron-flavor-weighted neutrino mass m β ≤ 2.05 eV=c 2 at 95% C.L. [7][8][9], m 2 β ¼
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