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We investigate the potential of a future kilometer-scale neutrino telescope such as the proposed IceCube detector in the South Pole, to measure and disentangle the yet unknown components of the cosmic neutrino flux, the prompt atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 D. Hooper , H. Nunokawa , O. L. G. Peres , R. Zukanovich Funchal

We perform a model independent study of the neutrino momentum distribution at freeze-out, treating the freeze-out temperature as a free parameter. Our results imply that measurement of neutrino reheating, as characterized by the measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-09 Jeremiah Birrell , Cheng-Tao Yang , Pisin Chen , Johann Rafelski

The purpose of the present paper is to study the neutrino oscillations as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay, with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 KeV. Such low energy neutrino oscillations can only be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Giomataris , J. D. Vergados

It has been shown that neutrino masses can be determined under the particle ansatz. In this paper, we give the general formulas of neutrino masses related to the neutrino oscillation parameters which show that there is a mass hierarchy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-01 Wen-Jie Wu , Xiang Zhou

There are strong indications for neutrino masses and mixings in the data on solar neutrinos as well as in the observed deficit of muon neutrinos from the atmosphere. The COBE data and other analysis of the large scale structure in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Mohapatra

After nearly 80 years since the first guess on its existence, neutrino still escapes our insight: the mass and the true nature (Majorana or Dirac) of this particle is still unknown. In the past ten years, neutrino oscillation experiments…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-17 O. Cremonesi , M. Pavan

The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the effective electron neutrino mass with a sensitivity of $0.2\,{\text{eV}/c^2}$ (90\% C.L.) by precision measurement of the shape of the tritium \textbeta-spectrum in the endpoint region. The energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-02 KATRIN Collaboration , M. Arenz , W. -J. Baek , S. Bauer , M. Beck , A. Beglarian , J. Behrens , R. Berendes , T. Bergmann , A. Berlev , U. Besserer , K. Blaum , T. Bode , B. Bornschein , L. Bornschein , T. Brunst , W. Buglak , N. Buzinsky , S. Chilingaryan , W. Q. Choi , M. Deffert , P. J. Doe , O. Dragoun , G. Drexlin , S. Dyba , F. Edzards , K. Eitel , E. Ellinger , R. Engel , S. Enomoto , M. Erhard , D. Eversheim , M. Fedkevych , J. A. Formaggio , F. M. Fränkle , G. B. Franklin , F. Friedel , A. Fulst , D. Furse , W. Gil , F. Glück , A. Gonzalez Urena , S. Grohmann , R. Grössle , R. Gumbsheimer , M. Hackenjos , V. Hannen , F. Harms , N. Haußmann , F. Heizmann , K. Helbing , W. Herz , S. Hickford , D. Hilk , M. A. Howe , A. Huber , A. Jansen , J. Kellerer , N. Kernert , L. Kippenbrock , M. Kleesiek , M. Klein , A. Kopmann , M. Korzeczek , A. Kovalík , B. Krasch , M. Kraus , L. Kuckert , T. Lasserre , O. Lebeda , J. Letnev , A. Lokhov , M. Machatschek , A. Marsteller , E. L. Martin , S. Mertens , S. Mirz , B. Monreal , H. Neumann , S. Niemes , A. Off , A. Osipowicz , E. Otten , D. S. Parno , A. Pollithy , A. W. P. Poon , F. Priester , P. C. -O. Ranitzsch , O. Rest , R. G. H. Robertson , F. Roccati , C. Rodenbeck , M. Röllig , C. Röttele , M. Ryšavý , R. Sack , A. Saenz , L. Schimpf , K. Schlösser , M. Schlösser , K. Schönung , M. Schrank , H. Seitz-Moskaliuk , J. Sentkerestiová , V. Sibille , M. Slezák , M. Steidl , N. Steinbrink , M. Sturm , M. Suchopar , H. H. Telle , L. A. Thorne , T. Thümmler , N. Titov , I. Tkachev , N. Trost , K. Valerius , D. Vénos , R. Vianden , A. P. Vizcaya Hernández , N. Wandkowsky , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer , C. Weiss , S. Welte , J. Wendel , J. F. Wilkerson , J. Wolf , S. Wüstling , S. Zadoroghny

Spectroscopic studies of two beta-rays from 100Mo are shown to be of potential interest for investigating both the Majorana neutrino mass by neutrinoless double beta-decay and low energy solar neutrino's by inverse beta-decay. With a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ejiri , J. Engel , R. Hazama , P. Krastev , N. Kudomi , R. G. H. Robertson

Study of the neutrinoless double beta decay and searches for the manifestation of the neutrino mass in ordinary beta decay are the main sources of information about the absolute neutrino mass scale, and the only practical source of…

The neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay process could provide crucial information to determine the absolute scale of the neutrino masses, and it is the only one that can establish whether neutrino is a Dirac or a Majorana…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Mihai Horoi , Sabin Stoica

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers a valuable approach in searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. The Ricochet experiment aims to perform a precision measurement of the CE$\nu$NS spectrum at the…

We investigate weak nuclear decays with extremely small kinetic energy release (Q value) and thus extremely good sensitivity to the absolute neutrino mass scale. In particular, we consider decays into excited daughter states, and we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-29 Joachim Kopp , Alexander Merle

Metallic microcalorimeters (MMCs) are cryogenic single-particle detectors that rely on a calorimetric detection principle. Due to their excellent energy resolution, close-to-ideal linear detector response, fast signal rise time and the…

The unknown neutrino mass hierarchy -- whether the $\nu_3$ mass eigenstate is the heaviest or the lightest -- represents a major gap in our knowledge of neutrino properties. Determining the hierarchy is a critical step toward further…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-09 R. B. Patterson

In the present paper we study some neutrino properties as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 keV. The technical challenges to this end can be achieved by building a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Giomataris , J. D. Vergados

Neutrinos can play an important role in the evolution of the Universe, modifying some of the cosmological observables. In this contribution we summarize the main aspects of cosmological relic neutrinos and we describe how the precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

The absolute scale of neutrino masses is very important for understanding the evolution and the structure formation of the universe as well as for nuclear and particle physics beyond the present Standard Model. Complementary to deducing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 C. Weinheimer

Recently a new method for determining the neutrino mass hierarchy by comparing the effective values of the atmospheric \Delta m^2 measured in the electron neutrino disappearance channel, \Delta m^2(ee), with the one measured in the muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Minakata , H. Nunokawa , S. J. Parke , R. Zukanovich Funchal