Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-12-23
J.Phys.Conf.Ser.120:052028,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
3 pages, 1 figure. For Proceedings of Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Sendai, Sept. 2007. To be published in
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-6596/120/5/052028
KATRIN is a very large scale tritium-beta-decay experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino. It is presently under construction at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, and makes use of the Tritium Laboratory built there for the ITER project. The combination of a very large retarding-potential electrostatic-magnetic spectrometer and an intense gaseous molecular tritium source makes possible a sensitivity to neutrino mass of 0.2 eV, about an order of magnitude below present laboratory limits. The measurement is kinematic and independent of whether the neutrino is Dirac or Majorana. The status of the project is summarized briefly in this report.
for the KATRIN Collaboration
Robertson R. G. H.
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