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Experimental results and perspectives of different methods to measure the absolute mass scale of neutrinos are briefly reviewed. The mass sensitivities from cosmological observations, double beta decay searches and single beta decay…

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The gas circulation loop LOOPINO has been set up and commissioned at Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK) to perform Raman measurements of circulating tritium mixtures under conditions similar to the inner loop system of the neutrino-mass…

The international project ``Microcalorimeter Arrays for a Rhenium Experiment'' (MARE) aims at the direct and calorimetric measurement of the electron neutrino mass with sub-electronvolt sensitivity. Calorimetric neutrino mass experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Nucciotti

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…

We propose a practical method for radiometrically calibrating cameras using widely available gaseous tritium light sources (betalights). Along with the gain(conversion factor) and read noise level, the predictable photon flux of the source…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-24 David McFadden , Brad Amos , Rainer Heintzmann

The shape of the beta decay energy distribution is sensitive to the mass of the electron neutrino. Attempts to measure the endpoint shape of tritium decay have so far seen no distortion from the zero-mass form, thus placing an upper limit…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-24 Benjamin Monreal , Joseph A. Formaggio

Data analysis of the next generation effective antineutrino mass measurement experiment KATRIN requires reliable knowledge of systematic corrections. In particular, the width of the daughter molecular ion excitation spectrum rovibrational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Alexey V. Lokhov , Nikita A. Titov

We consider tritium beta decay with additional emission of light pseudoscalar or vector bosons coupling to electrons or neutrinos. The electron energy spectrum for all cases is evaluated and shown to be well estimated by approximated…

We introduce a new method to detect the absolute neutrino mass scale. It uses a macroscopic mass of tritium source. We explain that the neutrino mass can be measured by scaling the mass difference of the source between initial and final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Akihiro Matsuzaki , Hidekazu Tanaka

A novel interferometric method is presented for the measurement of the absolute energy of electron beams. In the year 2016, a pioneering experiment was performed using a 195 MeV beam of the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). The experimental setup…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-17 P. Klag , P. Achenbach , M. Biroth , T. Gogami , P. Herrmann , M. Kaneta , Y. Konishi , W. Lauth , S. Nagao , S. N. Nakamura , J. Pochodzalla , J. Roser , Y. Toyama

The KATRIN experiment will determine the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c$^2$ at 90% CL. The energy analysis of tritium $\beta$-decay electrons will be performed by a tandem setup of electrostatic…

In the recent Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST), a suppressed rate of neutrino absorption on a gallium target was observed, consistent with earlier results from neutrino source calibrations of the SAGE and GALLEX/GNO solar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 S. R. Elliott , V. N. Gavrin , W. C. Haxton , T. V. Ibragimova , E. J. Rule

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

We present the first measurements of tritium beta-decay spectrum in the electron energy range 16-18.6 keV. The goal is to find distortions which may correspond to the presence of a heavy sterile neutrinos. A possible contribution of this…

An electron-impact ion source based on photoelectron emission was developed for ionization of gases at pressures below 1e-4 mbar in an axial magnetic field in the order of 5 T. The ion source applies only DC fields, which makes it suitable…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-01-25 S. Lukic , B. Bornschein , G. Drexlin , F. Glück , O. Kazachenko , M. Schöppner , Ch. Weinheimer , M. C. R. Zoll

The Gallium anomaly is an unexplained deficit in the neutrinos observed during the calibration of GALLEX and SAGE using a $^{51}$Cr radioactive source and recently confirmed by BEST. The possible explanations for this deficit include an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Ruixuan Gao , Haixing Lin , Jian Tang

The COHERENT collaboration reports the most precise measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section to date. This measurement was performed with COHERENT's germanium detector array, Ge-Mini, at the Spallation…

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

The forthcoming experiments on neutrino mass measurement using beta decay, open a new window to explore the Large Extra Dimension model. The Kaluza-Klein tower of neutrinos in Large Extra Dimension contribute to the Kurie function of beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Victor S. Basto-Gonzalez , Arman Esmaili , Orlando L. G. Peres