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Neutrino-electron scattering can be used to probe neutrino electromagnetic properties at low-threshold underground detectors with good angular and recoil electron energy resolution. We propose to do this using a number of artificial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. G. Miranda , J. Segura , V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

Gallium solar neutrino experiments have historically used radiochemical counting to determine the event rate. A detector which directly measures the ejected electron and de-excitation gamma could reduce background counting rates by way of a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-27 Jonathan Folkerts , Nick Solomey , Brooks Hartsock , Tyler Nolan , Octavio Pacheco , Gregory Pawloski

Tritium beta-decay is the most promising approach to measure the absolute masses of active light neutrinos in the laboratory and in a model-independent fashion. The development of Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy techniques and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 James A. L. Canning , Frank F. Deppisch , Wenna Pei

This proceedings paper briefly reviews the status of direct experimental probes into the neutrino-mass scale, with an emphasis on recent results from the KATRIN experiment.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-06 Diana S. Parno

We study the possibility to use a low energy beta-beam facility to search for sterile neutrinos by measuring the disappearance of electron anti-neutrinos. This channel is particularly sensitive since it allows to use inverse beta decay as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla

We show that a low energy beta-beam facility can be used to search for sterile neutrinos by measuring the disappearance of electron anti-neutrinos. This channel is particularly sensitive since it allows to use inverse beta decay as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-07 Sanjib K. Agarwalla , Patrick Huber , Jonathan M. Link

We discuss the physics potential of future tritium beta-decay experiments having a sensitivity to a neutrino mass ~\sqrt{|\Delta m^{2}_{23}|}~5x10^{-2} eV. The case of three-neutrino mixing is analised. A negative result of such an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. M. Bilenky , M. D. Mateev , S. T. Petcov

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 result of the 3-year neutrino magnetic moment measurement at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant with the GEMMA spectrometer is presented. Antineutrino-electron scattering is investigated. A HPGe detector of 1.5 kg placed at a distance of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 A. G. Beda , V. B. Brudanin , V. G. Egorov , D. V. Medvedev , V. S. Pogosov , M. V. Shirchenko , A. S. Starostin

The LiF Experiment for keV-scale Sterile Neutrino Search (LiFE-SNS) aims to probe sterile neutrinos through precision measurements of the tritium $\beta$ spectrum. Tritium nuclei are produced and embedded in LiF crystals via the…

Studies on electron antineutrino-electron elastic scattering were performed using a 200-kg CsI(Tl) scintillating crystal detector array at the Kuo-Sheng Nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan. The measured cross section of R(exp) = [1.00 +-…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Deniz , H. T. Wong

The paper reviews recent experiments on tritium beta spectroscopy searching for the absolute value of the electron neutrino mass $m(\nu_e)$. By use of dedicated electrostatic filters with high acceptance and resolution, the uncertainty on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-24 E. W. Otten , C. Weinheimer

In the recent Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST), a suppressed rate of neutrino absorption on a gallium target was observed, consistent with earlier results from neutrino source calibrations of the SAGE and GALLEX/GNO solar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 S. R. Elliott , V. N. Gavrin , W. C. Haxton , T. V. Ibragimova , E. J. Rule

We discuss under what circumstances a signal in upcoming laboratory searches for keV-scale sterile neutrinos would be compatible with those particles being a sizable part or all of dark matter. In the parameter space that will be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 Cristina Benso , Vedran Brdar , Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann

We study the feasibility of using neutrino-electron elastic scattering to measure the neutrino flux in the DUNE neutrino oscillation experiment. The neutrino-electron scattering cross section is precisely known, and the kinematics of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-12 Chris M. Marshall , Kevin S. McFarland , Callum Wilkinson

The Project 8 collaboration aims to measure the absolute neutrino mass scale using cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy on the beta decay of tritium. The second phase of the project will measure a continuous spectrum of molecular…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Mathieu Guigue

We propose an experiment intended for search for an admixture of sterile neutrino with mass m$_s$ in the range of 1-8 keV that may be detected as specific distortion of the electron energy spectrum during tritium decay. The distortion is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-12-08 D. Abdurashitov , A. Berlev , N. Likhovid , A. Lokhov , I. Tkachev , V. Yants

The new concept of antineutrino source for future short-baseline experiments is discussed. The source ensures: 1) well defined hard antineutrino flux; 2) the rate of counts more than ~(1E+2 - 1E+3) per day in the detector volume about cubic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-12 V. I. Lyashuk

The MUNU detector was designed to study neutrino-electron elastic scattering at low energy. The central component is a Time Projection Chamber filled with CF4 gas, surrounded by an anti-Compton detector. The experiment was carried out at…

Neutrino interaction uncertainties are a limiting factor in current and next-generation experiments probing the fundamental physics of neutrinos, a unique window on physics beyond the Standard Model. Neutrino-nucleon scattering amplitudes…