Speaker
Prof.
Caio Licciardi
(Laurentian University)
Description
The possible need of nearly 50 tonnes of 136Xe to search for neutrinoless double beta decay motivates an investigation of doing this enrichment using distillation. This requires a value for the vapour pressure isotopic effect (VPIE) of xenon. The main result of this work is a precise measurement of this VPIE using cryogenic distillation. The still is calibrated with argon and krypton. The VPIE dependence across all stable isotopes of the same element is found approximately linear and consistent with theoretical expectations.
Mini-abstract
We present a precise measurement of the vapour pressure isotopic effect of xenon for the first time.
Primary authors
Prof.
Caio Licciardi
(Laurentian University)
Prof.
David Sinclair
(Carleton University)
Co-authors
Mrs
Amal Alamre
(Carleton University)
Mr
Brandon Death
(Carleton University)
Prof.
Ibtesam Badhrees
(Carleton University)