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We propose an experiment to test the hypothesis that the reported anomaly on atmospheric neutrino fluxes is due to nu_mu <-> nu_x oscillations. It will rely both on a disappearance technique, exploiting the method of the dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Curioni , G. Mannocchi , L. Periale , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , S. Ragazzi

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

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will measure the absolute mass scale of neutrinos with a sensitivity of $\m_{\nu}$ = 200 meV/c$^2$ by high-precision spectroscopy close to the tritium beta-decay endpoint at 18.6 keV. Its…

The PROSPECT experiment is designed to perform precise searches for antineutrino disappearance at short distances (7 - 9~m) from compact nuclear reactor cores. This Letter reports results from a new neutrino oscillation analysis performed…

Although neutrinos are probably the most abundant particles of the universe their mass is not yet known. Oscillation experiments have proven that at least one of the neutrino mass states has m_{i}>0.05 eV while various interpretations of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-13 Otokar Dragoun , Drahoslav Vénos

The KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment investigates the energetic endpoint of the tritium $\beta$-decay spectrum to determine the effective mass of the electron anti-neutrino with a precision of $200\,\mathrm{meV}$ ($90\,\%$…

In this work, carbon $^{14}$C and Tritium were considered as possible background source in the XENON1T experiment. The simulation results show that if $^{14}$C is located in dust particles with a characteristic size of tens of micrometers,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Yu. Shitov , E. Yakushev

Next generation tritium decay experiments to determine the absolute neutrino mass require high-precision measurements of $\beta$-decay electron energies close to the kinematic end point. To achieve this, the development of high phase-space…

The Project 8 collaboration seeks to measure the absolute neutrino mass scale by means of precision spectroscopy of the beta decay of tritium. Our technique, cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy, measures the frequency of the radiation…

Tritium from tritiated methane (CH$_3$T) calibration is a significant impurity that restricts the sensitivity of the PandaX-4T dark matter detection experiment in the low-energy region. The CH$_3$T removal is essential for PandaX-4T and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-29 Shuaijie Li , Zhou Wang , Xiangyi Cui , Li Zhao , Yonglin Ju , Wenbo Ma , Yingjie Fan , Jianglai Liu , Liqiang Liu , Kai Kang

In order to carry out research in the field of possible existence of a sterile neutrino the laboratory based on SM-3 reactor (Dimitrovgrad, Russia) was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. The prototype of a…

Past and current direct neutrino mass experiments set limits on the so-called effective neutrino mass, which is an incoherent sum of neutrino masses and lepton mixing matrix elements. The electron energy spectrum which neglects the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-15 Guo-yuan Huang , Werner Rodejohann , Shun Zhou

The noise of a device under test (DUT) is measured simultaneously with two instruments, each of which contributes its own background. The average cross power spectral density converges to the DUT power spectral density. This method enables…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-02 Enrico Rubiola , Francois Vernotte

The goal of the KArlsruhe TRItrium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is the determination of the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$ at 90% C.L. This goal can only be achieved with a very low background level…

The beta decay of tritium in the form of molecular TT is the basis of sensitive experiments to measure neutrino mass. The final-state electronic, vibrational, and rotational excitations modify the beta spectrum significantly, and are…

The fact that neutrinos carry a non-vanishing rest mass is evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles. Their absolute mass bears important relevance from particle physics to cosmology. In this work, we report on…

Nuclear Experiment · 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 , S. Grohmann , R. Grössle , R. Gumbsheimer , N. Gutknecht , V. Hannen , L. Hasselmann , N. Haußmann , K. Helbing , H. Henke , S. Heyns , S. Hickford , R. Hiller , D. Hillesheimer , D. Hinz , T. Höhn , A. Huber , A. Jansen , C. Karl , J. Kellerer , K. Khosonthongkee , M. Kleifges , M. Klein , J. Kohpeiß , C. Köhler , L. Köllenberger , A. Kopmann , N. Kovač , A. Kovalík , H. Krause , L. La Cascio , T. Lasserre , J. Lauer , T. Le , O. Lebeda , B. Lehnert , G. Li , A. Lokhov , M. Machatschek , M. Mark , A. Marsteller , E. L. Martin , C. Melzer , S. Mertens , S. Mohanty , J. Mostafa , K. Müller , A. Nava , H. Neumann , S. Niemes , A. Onillon , D. S. Parno , M. Pavan , U. Pinsook , A. W. P. Poon , J. M. Lopez Poyato , S. Pozzi , F. Priester , J. Ráliš , S. Ramachandran , R. G. H. Robertson , C. Rodenbeck , M. Röllig , C. Röttele , M. Ryšavý , R. Sack , A. Saenz , R. Salomon , P. Schäfer , M. Schlösser , K. Schlösser , L. Schlüter , S. Schneidewind , U. Schnurr , M. Schrank , J. Schürmann , A. 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 , S. Tirolf , 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

A description of the current state of the project for the study of coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering using a tritium source and liquid helium detector is given. The project was proposed in our paper in 2019 and its main goal is to…

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

Measurements of the endpoint region of the tritium beta-decay spectrum provides good possibility to determine neutrino mass. This, however, needs a perfect monitoring of the spectrometer energy scale. A parallel measurement of electron line…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Rysavy

The PTOLEMY experiment (Princeton Tritium Observatory for Light, Early-Universe, Massive-Neutrino Yield) aims to achieve the sensitivity required to detect the relic neutrino background through a combination of a large area…