Current direct neutrino mass experiments

G Drexlin, V Hannen, S Mertens… - Advances in High …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this contribution, we review the status and perspectives of direct neutrino mass
experiments, which investigate the kinematics of β‐decays of specific isotopes (3H, 187Re …

Improved upper limit on the neutrino mass from a direct kinematic method by KATRIN

M Aker, K Altenmüller, M Arenz, M Babutzka, J Barrett… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report on the neutrino mass measurement result from the first four-week science run of
the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment KATRIN in spring 2019. Beta-decay electrons …

The design, construction, and commissioning of the KATRIN experiment

M Aker, K Altenmüller, JF Amsbaugh… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The determination of the neutrino mass plays an important role in cosmology, particle
physics, and astroparticle physics. The investigation of the energy spectrum of tritium β …

Neutrino masses

C Weinheimer, K Zuber - Annalen der Physik, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The various experiments on neutrino oscillation evidence that neutrinos have indeed non‐
zero masses but cannot provide the absolute neutrino mass scale. This scale of neutrino …

Improved determination of the angular correlation coefficient in free neutron decay with the spectrometer

M Beck, F Ayala Guardia, M Borg, J Kahlenberg… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We report on a precise measurement of the electron-antineutrino angular correlation (a
coefficient) in free neutron beta decay from the a SPECT experiment. The a coefficient is …

Modeling and measurement of Rydberg-State mediated Background at the KATRIN Main Spectrometer

NRM Trost - 2018 - inis.iaea.org
[en] In particle physics and cosmology neutrinos play a special role: Although they are the
numerically most abundant (known) particles in the universe, their fundamental properties …

New precision measurements of free neutron beta decay with cold neutrons

S Baeßler, JD Bowman, S Penttilä… - Journal of Physics G …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Precision measurements in free neutron beta decay serve to determine the coupling
constants of beta decay, and offer several stringent tests of the standard model. This paper …

Neutrino mass sensitivity by MAC-E-Filter based time-of-flight spectroscopy with the example of KATRIN

N Steinbrink, V Hannen, EL Martin… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims at a measurement of
the neutrino mass with a 90% confidence limit (CL) sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c 2 by measuring the …

The KATRIN pre-spectrometer at reduced filter energy

M Prall, P Renschler, F Glück, A Beglarian… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will determine the mass of the
electron neutrino with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% CL) via a measurement of the β-spectrum …

High-voltage monitoring with a solenoid retarding spectrometer at the KATRIN experiment

M Erhard, S Bauer, A Beglarian… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The KATRIN experiment will measure the absolute mass scale of neutrinos with a sensitivity
of m ν= 200meV/c 2 by means of an electrostatic spectrometer set close to the tritium β …