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Fluorescence imaging of individual ions and molecules in pressurized noble gases for barium tagging in $^{136}$ Xe

NEXT

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N.K. Byrnes
(
- Texas U., Arlington
)

May 20, 2024

13 pages

Published in:

Nature Commun. 15 (2024) 1, 10595

Published: Dec 5, 2024

e-Print:

2406.15422 [physics.ins-det]

DOI:

10.1038/s41467-024-54872-0

Report number:

FERMILAB-PUB-24-0802-PPD

Experiments:

LSC, Canfranc-NON-NEXT

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Abstract: (Springer)

The imaging of individual Ba

^{2+}

ions in high pressure xenon gas is one possible way to attain background-free sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay and hence establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. In this paper we demonstrate selective single Ba

^{2+}

ion imaging inside a high-pressure xenon gas environment. Ba

^{2+}

ions chelated with molecular chemosensors are resolved at the gas-solid interface using a diffraction-limited imaging system with scan area of 1 × 1 cm

^{2}

located inside 10 bar of xenon gas. This form of microscopy represents key ingredient in the development of barium tagging for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in

^{136}

Xe. This also provides a new tool for studying the photophysics of fluorescent molecules and chemosensors at the solid-gas interface to enable bottom-up design of catalysts and sensors.

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