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First Calorimetric Measurement of Electron Capture in \({}^{193}\)Pt with a Transition-Edge Sensor

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The neutrino mass can be extracted from a high statistics, high resolution calorimetric spectrum of electron capture in \({}^{163}\)Ho. In order to better understand the shape of the calorimetric electron capture spectrum, a second isotope was measured with a close to ideal absorber-source configuration. \({}^{193}\)Pt was created by irradiating a \({}^{192}\)Pt-enriched platinum foil in a nuclear reactor. This Pt-in-Pt absorber was designed to have a nearly ideal absorber-source configuration. The measured \({}^{193}\)Pt calorimetric electron capture spectrum provides an independent check on the corresponding theoretical calculations, which have thus far been compared only for \({}^{163}\)Ho. The first experimental and theoretically calculated spectra from this \({}^{193}\)Pt-in-Pt absorber are presented and overlaid for preliminary comparison of theory with experiment.

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  1. An experimental measurement of the cross section at the single energy of 0.025 eV yielded \(10\pm 2.5\) barns [24].

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Energy’s Fuel Cycle Research and Development (FCR&D), Materials Protection, Accounting and Control Technologies (MPACT) Campaign and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Program. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reactor personnel, in particular Thomas Bork for facilitating the radiation and Mike Ames for conducting immediate gamma measurements and modeling the irradiation. Heartfelt thanks to Dave Mercer for his assistance with the gamma spectroscopy and analysis, and Andrew Hoover for participating in peer review of this work.

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    K. E. Koehler, C. J. Fontes, M. W. Rabin & M. P. Croce

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    K. E. Koehler, M. A. Famiano & T. W. Gorczyca

  3. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

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Koehler, K.E., Famiano, M.A., Fontes, C.J. et al. First Calorimetric Measurement of Electron Capture in \({}^{193}\)Pt with a Transition-Edge Sensor. J Low Temp Phys 193, 1151–1159 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-1984-2

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