An upper limit on electron antineutrino mass from Troitsk experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2013-05-29 v3
Abstract
An electron antineutrino mass has been measured in tritium beta-decay in the "Troitsk nu-mass" experiment. The setup consists of a windowless gaseous tritium source and an electrostatic electron spectrometer. The whole data set acquired from 1994 to 2004 was reanalysed. A thorough selection of data with the reliable experimental conditions has been performed. We checked every known systematic effect and got the following experimental estimate for neutrino mass squared m_{nu}^{2}=-0.67+/- 2.53 {eV}^{2}. This gives an experimental upper sensitivity limit of m_{nu}<2.2 eV and upper limit estimates m_{nu}<2.12 eV, 95% C.L. for Bayesian statistics and m_{nu}<2.05 eV, 95% C.L. for the Feldman and Cousins approach.
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@article{arxiv.1108.5034,
title = {An upper limit on electron antineutrino mass from Troitsk experiment},
author = {V. N. Aseev and A. I. Belesev and A. I. Berlev and E. V. Geraskin and A. A. Golubev and N. A. Likhovid and V. M. Lobashev and A. A. Nozik and V. S. Pantuev and V. I. Parfenov and A. K. Skasyrskaya and F. V. Tkachov and S. V. Zadorozhny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5034},
year = {2013}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures and 1 table