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The KATRIN Experiment: Status and Outlook

Instrumentation and Detectors 2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The KATRIN experiment, presently under construction in Karlsruhe, Germany, will improve on previous laboratory limits on the neutrino mass by a factor of ten. KATRIN will use a high-activity, gaseous T2 source and a very high-resolution spectrometer to measure the shape of the high-energy tail of the tritium-decay beta spectrum. The shape measurement will also be sensitive to new physics, including sterile neutrinos and Lorentz violation. This report summarizes recent progress in the experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5289,
  title  = {The KATRIN Experiment: Status and Outlook},
  author = {D. S. Parno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5289},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Presented at the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 17-21, 2013. 4 pages, 1 figure

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