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ADC non-linearities are a major systematic effect in the search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with tritium $\beta$-decay experiments like KATRIN. They can significantly distort the spectral shape and thereby obscure the tiny kink-like…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 K. Dolde , S. Mertens , D. Radford , T. Bode , A. Huber , M. Korzeczek , T. Lasserre , M. Slezak

We analyze the possibility of detection of cosmological relic neutrinos via neutrino capture on beta decaying nuclei. This reaction has no threshold in neutrino energy, which is crucial for searching for relic neutrinos possessing very low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-10 Rastislav Hodak , Sergey Kovalenko , Fedor Simkovic , Amand Faessler

We present a short discussion of the Neutrino-4 experimental results and the results of other experiments searching for the sterile neutrino. We estimated the contribution of the sterile neutrino with parameters $\Delta m^2_{14} =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 A. P. Serebrov , R. M. Samoilov , M. E. Chaikovskii , O. M. Zherebtsov

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

In this followup to Phys. Rev. D 75, 053001 (2007) [arXiv:hep-ph/0608060] we report updated constraints on neutrino mass-mixing parameters, in light of recent neutrino oscillation data (KamLAND, SNO, and MINOS) and cosmological observations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Marrone , A. Melchiorri , A. Palazzo , A. M. Rotunno , P. Serra , J. Silk , A. Slosar

Since its original postulation by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930, the neutrino has played a prominent role in our understanding of nuclear and particle physics. In the intervening 80 years, scientists have detected and measured neutrinos from a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 J. A. Formaggio , G. P. Zeller

A precise prediction of the neutrino flux is a key ingredient for achieving the physics goals of long-baseline neutrino experiments. In modern accelerator-based neutrino experiments, neutrino beams are created from the decays of secondary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-03 Yoshikazu Nagai

A large calorimetric neutrino mass experiment using thermal detectors is expected to play a crucial role in the challenge for directly assessing the neutrino mass. We discuss and compare here two approaches to the estimation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 A. Nucciotti , E. Ferri , O. Cremonesi

Several different scenarios for neutrino scattering experiments using a neutrino beam from the muon collider complex are discussed. The physics reach of a neutrino experiment at the front end of a muon collider is shown to extend far beyond…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-02 Deborah A. Harris , Kevin S. McFarland

As neutrino long baseline experiments enter a new domain of precision, important systematic errors due to poor knowledge of production cross-sections for pions and kaons require more dedicated measurements for precise neutrino flux…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 Nicolas Abgrall

We study the possibility that the Right-handed neutrino is a five-dimensional state propagating along a micron size extra dimension, as required in the dark dimension proposal. We work out the signatures of R-neutrino production in KATRIN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Ignatios Antoniadis , Auttakit Chatrabhuti , Hiroshi Isono

The framework of three-flavor neutrino oscillation is a well-established phenomenon, but results from the short-baseline experiments, such as the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Srubabati Goswami , Debashis Pachhar , Supriya Pan

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…

Right-handed neutrinos are a natural extension of the Standard Model of particle physics. Such particles would only interact through the mixing with the left-handed neutrinos, hence they are called sterile neutrinos. If their mass were in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-12 Manuel Lebert , Tim Brunst , Thibaut Houdy , Susanne Mertens , Daniel Siegmann

Recent years have witnessed many exciting breakthroughs in neutrino physics. The detection of neutrino oscillations has proved that neutrinos are massive particles but the assessment of their absolute mass scale is still an outstanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 Angelo Nucciotti

We note that the central value of the KATRIN measurement has negative mass squared, and wonder why the statistical analysis excludes such values a priori.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-19 Alan Chodos

Sterile neutrinos are possible dark matter candidates. We examine here possible detection mechanisms, assuming that the neutrino has a mass of about 50 keV and couples to the ordinary neutrino. Even though this neutrino is quite heavy, it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-25 Paraskevi C. Divari , John D. Vergados

Neutrons serve as unique probes for exploring the microscopic structure of matter, with the performance of a neutron source fundamentally governing the depth of scientific exploration and the breadth of industrial applicability. To address…

The objective of neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, is to build instruments which reach throughout and far beyond our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen