Imaging individual barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO

Imaging individual barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO

Imaging individual barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO, Published online: 29 April 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1169-4

Single barium atoms trapped in a solid xenon matrix can be imaged and counted by scanning with a focused laser, providing a possible tagging technique for the neutrinoless-double-β-decay experiment nEXO.

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