KATRIN: a new beta-spectroscopic experiment to determine the neutrino mass

0360728 - ÚJF 2012 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Dragoun, Otokar
KATRIN: a new beta-spectroscopic experiment to determine the neutrino mass.
Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine. Melville: AMER INST PHYSICS, 2007 - (Granja, C.; Leroy, C.; Štekl, I.), s. 193-196. AIP Conference Proceedings, 958. ISBN 978-0-7354-0472-4. ISSN 0094-243X.
[4th International Summer School on Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine. Praha (CZ), 08.07.2007-19.07.2007]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LA318; GA MŠMT LC07050
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10480505
Keywords : neutrino mass * beta ray spectroscopy
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders

Almost sixty years effort to determine the neutrino mass from experimental x-ray spectra resulted recently in the model independent limit of m(nu) < 2.3 eV/c(2). The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) should improve this limit to m(nu) < 0.2 eV/c(2), while the neutrino mass of 0.3 and 0.4 eV/c(2) should be seen as 3.5 and 6.5 sigma effect, respectively. Some details of the KATRIN setup, including the windowless gaseous tritium source and a tandem of two electrostatic retarding spectrometers with adiabatic magnetic collimation, are outlined.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0198211