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The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to measure the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with an unprecedented sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$, using beta-electrons from tritium decay. Super-conducting magnets will guide the…

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The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to measure the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with an unprecedented sensitivity of $0.2\,\mathrm{eV}/\mathrm{c}^2$, using $\beta$-electrons from tritium decay. The electrons are…

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 D. S. Parno

The properties of neutrinos and especially their rest mass play an important role at the intersections of cosmology, particle physics and astroparticle physics. At present there are two complementary approaches to address this topic in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Thomas Thümmler

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. The collaboration has reported a first mass measurement…

The KATRIN (KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino) experiment aims to determine the mass of the electron antineutrino with a sensitivity of 200meV by precisely measuring the electron spectrum of the tritium beta decay. This will be done by the use of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Bauer , R. Berendes , F. Hochschulz , H. -W. Ortjohann , S. Rosendahl , T. Thümmler , M. Schmidt , C. Weinheimer

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 analyse the possible role of new interactions of neutrino in the forthcoming tritium beta decay experiment KATRIN aimed at detecting the neutrino mass with the sensitivity of 0.3 - 0.2 eV. It is shown that under certain circumstances the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Yu. Ignatiev , B. H. J. McKellar

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 KATRIN experiment aims to measure the effective mass of the electron antineutrino from the analysis of electron spectra stemming from the beta-decay of molecular tritium with a sensitivity of 200 meV. Therefore, a daily throughput of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-16 L. Kuckert , F. Heizmann , G. Drexlin , F. Glück , M. Hötzel , M. Kleesiek , F. Sharipov , K. Valerius

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment KATRIN aims at improving the upper limit of the mass of the electron antineutrino to about 0.2 eV (90% c.l.) by investigating the beta-decay of tritium gas molecules. The experiment is currently…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Ubieto-Diaz , D. Rodriguez , S. Lukic , Sz. Nagy , S. Stahl , K. Blaum

One of the most important tasks in neutrino physics is to determine the neutrino mass scale to distinguish between hierarchical and degenerate neutrino mass models and to clarify the role of neutrinos as dark matter particles in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Weinheimer

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment investigating tritium beta-decay close to the endpoint with unprecedented precision has stringent requirements on the background level of less than 10^(-2) counts per second. Electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Wandkowsky , G. Drexlin , F. M. Fränkle , F. Glück , S. Groh , S. Mertens

In this work we present a keV-scale sterile-neutrino search with the first tritium data of the KATRIN experiment, acquired in the commissioning run in 2018. KATRIN performs a spectroscopic measurement of the tritium $\beta$-decay spectrum…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-07-14 M. Aker , D. Batzler , A. Beglarian , J. Behrens , A. Berlev , U. Besserer , B. Bieringer , F. Block , S. Bobien , B. Bornschein , L. Bornschein , M. Böttcher , T. Brunst , T. S. Caldwell , R. M. D. Carney , S. Chilingaryan , W. Choi , 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 , J. A. Formaggio , F. M. Fränkle , G. B. Franklin , F. Friedel , A. Fulst , K. Gauda , A. S. Gavin , W. Gil , F. Glück , R. Grössle , R. Gumbsheimer , V. Hannen , N. Haußmann , K. Helbing , S. Hickford , R. Hiller , D. Hillesheimer , D. Hinz , T. Höhn , T. Houdy , A. Huber , A. Jansen , C. Karl , J. Kellerer , M. Kleifges , M. Klein , C. Köhler , L. Köllenberger , A. Kopmann , M. Korzeczek , A. Kovalík , B. Krasch , H. Krause , L. La Cascio , T. Lasserre , T. L. Le , O. Lebeda , B. Lehnert , A. Lokhov , M. Machatschek , E. Malcherek , M. Mark , A. Marsteller , E. L. Martin , C. Melzer , S. Mertens , J. Mostafa , K. Müller , H. Neumann , S. Niemes , P. Oelpmann , D. S. Parno , A. W. P. Poon , J. M. L. Poyato , F. Priester , J. Ráliš , S. Ramachandran , R. G. H. Robertson , W. Rodejohann , C. Rodenbeck , M. Röllig , C. Röttele , M. Ryšavý , R. Sack , A. Saenz , R. Salomon , P. Schäfer , L. Schimpf , M. Schlösser , K. Schlösser , L. Schlüter , S. Schneidewind , M. Schrank , A. Schwemmer , M. Šefčík , V. Sibille , D. Siegmann , M. Slezák , F. Spanier , M. Steidl , M. Sturm , H. H. Telle , L. A. Thorne , T. Thümmler , N. Titov , I. Tkachev , K. Urban , K. Valerius , D. Vénos , A. P. Vizcaya Hernández , C. Weinheimer , S. Welte , J. Wendel , M. Wetter , C. Wiesinger , J. F. Wilkerson , J. Wolf , S. Wüstling , J. Wydra , W. Xu , S. Zadoroghny , G. Zeller

The KATRIN experiment is designed to determine the absolute neutrino mass scale with a sensitivity of 200 meV (90 % CL) by measuring the electron energy spectrum close to the endpoint of molecular tritium beta decay. Electrons from a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-25 Ferenc Glück , Guido Drexlin , Benjamin Leiber , Susanne Mertens , Alexander Osipowicz , Jan Reich , Nancy Wandkowsky

The beta decay of molecular tritium currently provides the highest sensitivity in laboratory-based neutrino mass measurements. The upcoming Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will improve the sensitivity to 0.2 eV, making a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-23 L. I. Bodine , D. S. Parno , R. G. H. Robertson

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims at a measurement of the neutrino mass with a 90 % confidence limit (C.L.) sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$ by measuring the endpoint region of the tritium $\beta$ decay spectrum from a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-11-21 Nicholas Steinbrink , Volker Hannen , Eric L. Martin , R. G. Hamish Robertson , Michael Zacher , Christian Weinheimer

We report on the direct cosmic relic neutrino background search from the first two science runs of the KATRIN experiment in 2019. Beta-decay electrons from a high-purity molecular tritium gas source are analyzed by a high-resolution MAC-E…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-07-13 M. Aker , D. Batzler , A. Beglarian , J. Behrens , A. Berlev , U. Besserer , B. Bieringer , F. Block , S. Bobien , B. Bornschein , L. Bornschein , M. Böttcher , T. Brunst , T. S. Caldwell , R. M. D. Carney , S. Chilingaryan , W. Choi , 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 , J. A. Formaggio , F. M. Fränkle , G. B. Franklin , F. Friedel , A. Fulst , K. Gauda , A. S. Gavin , W. Gil , F. Glück , R. Grössle , R. Gumbsheimer , V. Hannen , N. Haußmann , K. Helbing , S. Hickford , R. Hiller , D. Hillesheimer , D. Hinz , T. Höhn , T. Houdy , A. Huber , A. Jansen , C. Karl , F. Kellerer , J. Kellerer , M. Kleifges , M. Klein , C. Köhler , L. Köllenberger , A. Kopmann , M. Korzeczek , A. Kovalík , B. Krasch , H. Krause , L. La Cascio , T. Lasserre , T. L. Le , O. Lebeda , B. Lehnert , A. Lokhov , M. Machatschek , E. Malcherek , M. Mark , A. Marsteller , E. L. Martin , C. Melzer , S. Mertens , J. Mostafa , K. Müller , H. Neumann , S. Niemes , P. Oelpmann , D. S. Parno , A. W. P. Poon , J. M. L. Poyato , F. Priester , J. Ráliš , S. Ramachandran , R. G. H. Robertson , W. Rodejohann , C. Rodenbeck , M. Röllig , C. Röttele , M. Ryšavý , R. Sack , A. Saenz , R. Salomon , P. Schäfer , L. Schimpf , M. Schlösser , K. Schlösser , L. Schlüter , S. Schneidewind , M. Schrank , A. Schwemmer , M. Šefčík , V. Sibille , D. Siegmann , M. Slezák , F. Spanier , M. Steidl , M. Sturm , H. H. Telle , L. A. Thorne , T. Thümmler , N. Titov , I. Tkachev , K. Urban , K. Valerius , D. Vénos , A. P. Vizcaya Hernández , C. Weinheimer , S. Welte , J. Wendel , M. Wetter , C. Wiesinger , J. F. Wilkerson , J. Wolf , S. Wüstling , J. Wydra , W. Xu , S. Zadoroghny , G. Zeller

The KATRIN experiment in Karlsruhe Germany will monitor the decay of tritium, which produces an electron-antineutrino. While the present upper bound for its mass is 2 eV/$c^2$, KATRIN will search down to 0.2 eV$/c^2$. If the dark matter of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Andrea Morandi

The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the absolute neutrino mass by measuring the endpoint region of the tritium $\beta$ spectrum. As a large-scale experiment with a sharp energy resolution, high source luminosity and low background it…