A general description is given of Project 8, a new approach to measuring the neutrino mass scale via the beta decay of tritium. In Project 8, the energy of electrons emitted in beta decay is determined from the frequency of cyclotron radiation emitted as the electrons spiral in a uniform magnetic field.
@article{arxiv.1309.7093,
title = {Project 8: Determining neutrino mass from tritium beta decay using a frequency-based method},
author = {P. J. Doe and J. Kofron and E. L. McBride and R. G. H. Robertson and L. J Rosenberg and G. Rybka and S. Doelman and A. Rogers and J. A. Formaggio and D. Furse and N. S. Oblath and B. H. LaRoque and M. Leber and B. Monreal and M. Bahr and D. M. Asner and A. M. Jones and J. Fernandes and B. A. VanDevender and R. Patterson and R. Bradley and T. Thuemmler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7093},
year = {2013}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure. White paper submitted to Snowmass Conference 2013