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Description
Highest precision electron spectroscopy is required to determine the neutrino mass from tritium beta-decay. In molecular tritium, initial and final state excitations limit the achievable resolution on the neutrino mass to 100meV. Trapping tritium atoms magnetically at high purity will avoid this systematic effect and allow to surpass the sensitivity limit. Towards this goal, Project 8 will use CRES technology, which is compatible with such a source concept.
However, providing such an atomic source at the number density and size required to achieve the required event statistics constitutes a major challenge. In this talk, I will present a conceptual design towards producing, cooling and trapping an atomic tritium flux meeting our requirements.
