Speaker
Christian Forstner
(Technical University of Munich)
Description
Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of particle physics and a promising candidate for dark matter if their mass is in the keV-range. After the completion of the neutrino mass measurement campaign, the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) will be equipped with a novel multi-pixel silicon drift detector array, the TRISTAN detector. It will be capable of searching for these keV-scale sterile neutrinos by investigating the kinematics of the tritium $\beta$-decay. This poster will give an overview of the ongoing detector production and the characterization measurements to investigate the detector performance.
Author
Christian Forstner
(Technical University of Munich)
