Administration of EMP-related Publications
| year | 2015 |
| author(s) | S. Eliseev, K. Blaum, M. Block, S. Chenmarev, H. Dorrer, Ch. E. Düllmann, C. Enss, P. E. Filianin, L. Gastaldo, M. Goncharov, U. Köster, F. Lautenschläger, Yu. N. Novikov, A. Rischka, R. X. Schüssler, L. Schweikhard, A. Türle |
| title | Direct Measurement of the Mass Difference of 163Ho and 163Dy Solves the Q-Value Puzzle for the Neutrino Mass Determination |
| document type | Paper |
| source | Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 062501 (2015) |
| doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.062501 |
| EMP/Horizon2020 | This publication does not include a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement. |
| abstract | The atomic mass difference of 163Ho and 163Dy has been directly measured with the Penning-trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP applying the novel phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance technique. Our measurement has solved the long-standing problem of large discrepancies in the Q value of the electron capture in 163Ho determined by different techniques. Our measured mass difference shifts the currentQ value of 2555(16) eV evaluated in the Atomic Mass Evaluation 2012 [G. Audi et al., Chin. Phys. C 36, 1157 (2012)] by more than 7σ to 2833(30stat)(15sys)eV/c2. With the new mass difference it will be possible, e.g., to reach in the first phase of the ECHo experiment a statistical sensitivity to the neutrino mass below 10 eV, which will reduce its present upper limit by more than an order of magnitude. |