The KATRIN sensitivity to the neutrino mass and to right-handed currents in beta decay

Details The KATRIN sensitivity to the neutrino mass and to right-handed currents in beta decay The KATRIN sensitivity to the neutrino mass and to right-handed currents in beta decay

2007-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3930v1

Phys.Lett.B703:310-312,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages, 2 figures, 12 references

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.005

The aim of the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment KATRIN is the determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale down to 0.2 eV, with essentially smaller model dependence than from cosmology and neutrinoless double beta decay. For this purpose, the integral electron energy spectrum is measured close to the endpoint of molecular tritium beta decay. The endpoint, together with the neutrino mass, should be fitted from the KATRIN data as a free parameter. The right-handed couplings change the electron energy spectrum close to the endpoint, therefore they have some effect also to the precise neutrino mass determination. The statistical calculations show that, using the endpoint as a free parameter, the unaccounted right-handed couplings constrained by many beta decay experiments can change the fitted neutrino mass value, relative to the true neutrino mass, by not larger than about 5-10 %. Using, incorrectly, the endpoint as a fixed input parameter, the above change of the neutrino mass can be much larger, order of 100 %, and for some cases it can happen that for large true neutrino mass value the fitted neutrino mass squared is negative. Publications using fixed endpoint and presenting large right-handed coupling effects to the neutrino mass determination are not relevant for the KATRIN experiment.

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