Direct measurements of neutrino mass

JA Formaggio, ALC de Gouvea, RGH Robertson - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The turn of the 21st century witnessed a sudden shift in our fundamental understanding of
particle physics. While the minimal Standard Model predicts that neutrino masses are …

KATRIN: status and prospects for the neutrino mass and beyond

M Aker, M Balzer, D Batzler, A Beglarian… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to measure a high-
precision integral spectrum of the endpoint region of T 2 β decay, with the primary goal of …

Direct neutrino-mass measurement with sub-electronvolt sensitivity

Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations, we know that neutrinos have non-zero mass.
However, the absolute neutrino-mass scale remains unknown. Here we report the upper …

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 …

First direct neutrino-mass measurement with sub-eV sensitivity

M Aker, A Beglarian, J Behrens, A Berlev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We report the results of the second measurement campaign of the Karlsruhe Tritium
Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment. KATRIN probes the effective electron anti-neutrino mass …

ExoMol: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other atmospheres

J Tennyson, SN Yurchenko - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of extrasolar planets is one of the major scientific advances of the last two
decades. Hundreds of planets have now been detected and astronomers are beginning to …

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 eV-scale sterile-neutrino constraints from the second KATRIN measurement campaign

M Aker, D Batzler, A Beglarian, J Behrens, A Berlev… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present the results of the light sterile neutrino search from the second Karlsruhe Tritium
Neutrino (KATRIN) measurement campaign in 2019. Approaching nominal activity, 3.76× 10 …

Neutrino mass limit from tritium β decay

EW Otten, C Weinheimer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews recent experiments on tritium β-spectroscopy searching for the absolute
value of the electron neutrino mass m (ν e). By the use of dedicated electrostatic filters with …

High precision analytical description of the allowed spectrum shape

L Hayen, N Severijns, K Bodek, D Rozpedzik… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
A fully analytical description of the allowed β spectrum shape is given in view of ongoing
and planned measurements. Its study forms an invaluable tool in the search for physics …