Large calorimetric neutrino mass experiments using thermal detectors are possibly going to play a crucial role in the challenge for assessing the neutrino mass. This paper describe a tool based on Monte Carlo methods which has been developed to estimate the statistical sensitivity of calorimetric neutrino mass experiments using the 163-Ho electron capture decay. The tool is applied to investigate the effect of various experimental parameters and the results useful for designing an experiment with sub-eV sensitivity are given.
@article{arxiv.1405.5060,
title = {Statistical sensitivity of 163-Ho electron capture neutrino mass experiments},
author = {A. Nucciotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5060},
year = {2014}
}