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The forthcoming experiments on neutrino mass measurement using beta decay, open a new window to explore the Large Extra Dimension model. The Kaluza-Klein tower of neutrinos in Large Extra Dimension contribute to the Kurie function of beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Victor S. Basto-Gonzalez , Arman Esmaili , Orlando L. G. Peres

We present a showcase for deriving bounds on the neutrino masses from laboratory experiments and cosmological observations. We compare the frequentist and Bayesian bounds on the effective electron neutrino mass m_beta which the KATRIN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ole Host , Ofer Lahav , Filipe B. Abdalla , Klaus Eitel

We study the discovery potential of future beta decay experiments on searches for the neutrino mass in the sub-eV range, and, in particular, KATRIN experiment with sensitivity $m > 0.3$ eV. Effects of neutrino mass and mixing on the beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Y. Farzan , O. L. G. Peres , A. Yu. Smirnov

If the dark matter of the Universe is made of sterile neutrinos with the mass in keV region they can be searched for with the help of X-ray satellites. We discuss the prospects of laboratory experiments that can be competitive and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Fedor Bezrukov , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

The "Troitsk anomaly" is a strange bump at the end of the tritium beta spectrum observed in electron antineutrino mass measurements. It reveals a half-year variation. The nature of the anomaly can be accounted for by interaction of negative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Drobyshevski

Experimental results and perspectives of different methods to measure the absolute mass scale of neutrinos are briefly reviewed. The mass sensitivities from cosmological observations, double beta decay searches and single beta decay…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-06-03 Markus Steidl

We perform a statistical analysis with the prospective results of future experiments on neutrino-less double beta decay, direct searches for neutrino mass (KATRIN) and cosmological observations. Realistic errors are used and the nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-24 Werner Maneschg , Alexander Merle , Werner Rodejohann

We study a large extra dimension model with active and sterile Dirac neutrinos. The sterile neutrino masses stem from compactification of an extra dimension with radius $R$ and are chosen to have masses around eV or keV, in order to explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-26 Werner Rodejohann , He Zhang

An electron antineutrino mass has been measured in tritium beta-decay in the "Troitsk nu-mass" experiment. The setup consists of a windowless gaseous tritium source and an electrostatic electron spectrometer. The whole data set acquired…

We introduce a new method to detect the absolute neutrino mass scale. It uses a macroscopic mass of tritium source. We explain that the neutrino mass can be measured by scaling the mass difference of the source between initial and final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Akihiro Matsuzaki , Hidekazu Tanaka

The gas circulation loop LOOPINO has been set up and commissioned at Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK) to perform Raman measurements of circulating tritium mixtures under conditions similar to the inner loop system of the neutrino-mass…

Neutrino oscillation experiments show that neutrinos have mass; however, the absolute mass scale is exceedingly difficult to measure and is currently unknown. A promising approach is to measure the energies of the electrons released during…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-09 Stafford Withington , Christopher Thomas , Songyuan Zhao

Project 8 is a tritium endpoint neutrino mass experiment utilizing a phased program to achieve sensitivity to the range of neutrino masses allowed by the inverted mass hierarchy. The Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Walter C. Pettus

The projected sensitivity of the effective electron neutrino-mass measurement with the KATRIN experiment is below 0.3 eV (90 % CL) after five years of data acquisition. The sensitivity is affected by the increased rate of the background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-19 M. Aker , D. Batzler , A. Beglarian , J. Behrens , J. Beisenkötter , M. Biassoni , B. Bieringer , Y. Biondi , F. Block , S. Bobien , M. Böttcher , B. Bornschein , L. Bornschein , T. S. Caldwell , M. Carminati , A. Chatrabhuti , S. Chilingaryan , B. A. Daniel , K. Debowski , M. Descher , D. Díaz Barrero , P. J. Doe , O. Dragoun , G. Drexlin , F. Edzards , K. Eitel , E. Ellinger , R. Engel , S. Enomoto , A. Felden , C. Fengler , C. Fiorini , J. A. Formaggio , C. Forstner , F. M. Fränkle , K. Gauda , A. S. Gavin , W. Gil , F. Glück , R. Grössle , R. Gumbsheimer , V. Hannen , L. Hasselmann , N. Haußmann , K. Helbing , S. Heyns , S. Hickford , R. Hiller , D. Hillesheimer , D. Hinz , T. Höhn , A. Huber , A. Jansen , C. Karl , J. Kellerer , K. Khosonthongkee , C. Köhler , L. Köllenberger , A. Kopmann , N. Kovač , H. Krause , L. La Cascio , T. Lasserre , J. Lauer , T. L. Le , O. Lebeda , B. Lehnert , G. Li , A. Lokhov , M. Machatschek , M. Mark , A. Marsteller , E. L. Martin , K. McMichael , C. Melzer , S. Mertens , S. Mohanty , J. Mostafa , K. Müller , A. Nava , H. Neumann , S. Niemes , D. S. Parno , M. Pavan , U. Pinsook , A. W. P. Poon , J. M. L. Poyato , S. Pozzi , F. Priester , J. Ráliš , S. Ramachandran , R. G. H. Robertson , C. Rodenbeck , M. Röllig , R. Sack , A. Saenz , R. Salomon , P. Schäfer , M. Schlösser , K. Schlösser , L. Schlüter , S. Schneidewind , M. Schrank , J. Schürmann , A. K. Schütz , A. Schwemmer , A. Schwenck , M. Šefčík , D. Siegmann , F. Simon , F. Spanier , D. Spreng , W. Sreethawong , M. Steidl , J. Štorek , X. Stribl , M. Sturm , N. Suwonjandee , N. Tan Jerome , H. H. Telle , L. A. Thorne , T. Thümmler , N. Titov , I. Tkachev , K. Urban , K. Valerius , D. Vénos , C. Weinheimer , S. Welte , J. Wendel , C. Wiesinger , J. F. Wilkerson , J. Wolf , S. Wüstling , J. Wydra , W. Xu , S. Zadorozhny , G. Zeller

The neutrino mass experiment KATRIN uses conversion electrons from the 32.2 keV transition of the nuclear isomer $^{\mathrm{83m}}$Kr for calibration. Comparing the measured energies to the appropriate literature values allows for an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-23 C. Rodenbeck

The upcoming Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will put unprecedented constraints on the absolute mass of the electron neutrino, $\mnue$. In this paper we investigate how this information on $\mnue$ will affect our constraints…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Jostein R. Kristiansen , Oystein Elgaroy

We present the bounds on 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing obtained from the first results of the KATRIN experiment. We show that the KATRIN data extend the Mainz and Troitsk bound to smaller values of $\Delta{m}^2_{41}$ for large mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , Y. Y. Zhang

Following the successful observation of single conversion electrons from $^{83m}$Kr using Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES), Project 8 is now advancing its focus toward a tritium beta decay spectrum. A tritium spectrum will…

Sterile neutrinos with keV-scale masses are popular candidates for warm dark matter. In the most straightforward case they are produced via oscillations with active neutrinos. We introduce effective self-interactions of active neutrinos and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Cristina Benso , Werner Rodejohann , Manibrata Sen , Aaroodd Ujjayini Ramachandran

The Trinity Neutrino Observatory aims to detect tau neutrinos in the energy range of 1 PeV to 10 EeV. We are developing the observatory in three stages. The first stage, known as the Trinity Demonstrator, was deployed in Fall 2023. The…