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KATRIN is a very large scale tritium-beta-decay experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino. It is presently under construction at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology north campus, and makes use of the Karlsruhe Tritium Laboratory…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-23 R. G. Hamish Robertson

KATRIN is a very large scale tritium-beta-decay experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino. It is presently under construction at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, and makes use of the Tritium Laboratory built there for the ITER…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 R. G. H. Robertson

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 KATRIN (KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino) experiment will be analyzing the tritium beta-spectrum to determine the mass of the neutrino with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% C.L.). This approach to a measurement of the absolute value of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 Anna Sejersen Riis , Steen Hannestad , Christian Weinheimer

The investigation of the absolute scale of the effective neutrino mass remains challenging due to the exclusively weak interaction of neutrinos with all known particles in the standard model of particle physics. Currently, the most precise…

At least one neutrino has a mass of about 50 meV or larger. However, the absolute mass scale for the neutrino remains unknown. Studies of double beta decay offer hope for determining the absolute mass scale. Furthermore, the critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-03-23 Steven R. Elliott

The determination of the neutrino mass is an open issue in modern particle physics and astrophysics. The direct mass measurement is the only theory-unrelated experimental tool capable to probe such quantity. The HOLMES experiment aims to…

Building on earlier studies, we investigate the possibility to determine the type of neutrino mass spectrum (i.e., "the neutrino mass hierarchy") in a high statistics reactor electron antineutrino experiment with a relatively large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Pomita Ghoshal , S. T. Petcov

A new generation of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments with improved sensitivity is currently under design and construction. They will probe inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass pattern. There is also a revived interest to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Amand Faessler , Vadim Rodin , Fedor Simkovic

The method of direct neutrino mass determination based on the kinematics of tritium beta decay, which is adopted by the KATRIN experiment, makes use of a large, high-resolution electrostatic spectrometer with magnetic adiabatic collimation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-08-09 K. Valerius , H. Hein , H. Baumeister , M. Beck , K. Bokeloh , J. Bonn , F. Glück , H. -W. Ortjohann , B. Ostrick , M. Zbořil , Ch. Weinheimer

This article proposes a new method to measure the proton detector efficiency for use in "beam" determinations of the free neutron lifetime. There is currently a 4{\sigma} disagreement between the "beam" and "storage" methods of measuring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-07 Grant V. Riley , Nadia Fomin , Jaideep Taggart Singh , William Greene , Rebecca Godri , Evan Adamek , Eli Carter

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

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…

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

This article reports the optimized experimental requirements to determine neutrino mass hierarchy using electron antineutrinos ($\bar{\nu}_e$) generated in a nuclear reactor. The features of the neutrino mass hierarchy can be extracted from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Y. Pac

The determination of absolute neutrino masses is crucial for the understanding of theories underlying the standard model, such as SUSY. We review the experimental prospects to determine absolute neutrino masses and the correlations among…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Heinrich Päs , Thomas J. Weiler

The KATRIN experiment is going to search for the average mass of the electron antineutrino with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2. It uses a retardation spectrometer of MAC-E filter type to accurately measure the shape of the electron spectrum at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Beck , K. Bokeloh , H. Hein , S. Bauer , H. Baumeister , J. Bonn , H. -W. Ortjohann , B. Ostrick , S. Rosendahl , S. Streubel , K. Valerius , M. Zboril , C. Weinheimer

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) aims to determine the absolute mass of the electron antineutrino from a precise measurement of the tritium beta-spectrum near its endpoint at 18.6 keV with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV. KATRIN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-29 Th. Thümmler , R. Marx , Ch. Weinheimer

The \textit{KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino} (KATRIN) experiment aims to measure the neutrino mass with a sensitivity of \SI{0.2}{\electronvolt} (\SI{90}{\percent} CL). This will be achieved by a precision measurement of the endpoint region of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-23 A. Beglarian , E. Ellinger , N. Haußmann , K. Helbing , S. Hickford , U. Naumann , H. -W. Ortjohann , M. Steidl , J. Wolf , S. Wüstling

Neutrino oscillations are clear evidence for physics beyond the standard model. The goal of next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments is to find a non-zero $\theta_{13}$, the last mixing matrix element for which we only know an upper…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-05-19 Teppei Katori