New Instruments for Neutrino Relics and Mass

Session

Existing Experiments

8 Dec 2008, 11:10

6-2-024 AB Auditorium (CERN)

7. The MARE project: the calorimetric approach potential

Angelo Nucciotti (INFN Milano-Bicocca / Dip. di Fisica U. di Milano-Bicocca)

08/12/2008, 11:10

The international project "Microcalorimeter Arrays for a Rhenium Experiment" (MARE) aims at a direct and calorimetric measurement of the electron antineutrino mass with sub-electronvolt sensitivity. The experimental strategy consists in analysing the beta spectrum of 187Re near the end-point looking for the spectral distortion expected for a finite antineutrino mass....

8. Orbital electron capture decay of hydrogen-like ions (GSI)

Dr Christophor Kozhuharov (GSI)

08/12/2008, 11:40

At GSI Darmstadt, we have studied the decay of highly-charged heavy ions, stored and cooled in the experimental storage ring, ESR, by means of time-resolved Schottky-noise mass spectroscopy. The Fast Fourier Transform, FFT, of the Schottky noise is a non-destructive, non-instantaneous detection method, sensitive to a single heavy ion circulating in the ring. We have...

9. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment KATRIN

Prof. Christian Weinheimer (University of Münster, Germany)

08/12/2008, 12:10

The KArlsruher TRItium Neutrino experiment KATRIN is going to search for the neutrino mass from the endpoint region of the tritium beta decay spectrum with one order of magnitude higher sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2 compared to previous direct neutrino mass experiments. This sensitvity will allow to distinguish between hierarchical and quasi-degenerate neutrino mass...