Speakers
Dr
Alexey Lokhov
(Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)Dr
Martin Slezák
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Description
The KATRIN experiment can perform a comparably low-statistics search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with the first tritium measurements, improving the current laboratory limits on the squared sterile-to-active mixing angle by about one order of magnitude. For the keV-scale sterile neutrino search a wider energy range of tritium β-decay spectrum has to be measured, as the “postulated” neutrinos would manifest themselves as a kink in the spectrum at an a priori unknown energy.
For this reason a precise model of the entire spectrum is necessary. In this poster we present a novel technique to simulate the full spectrum, taking into account experimental effect appearing in KATRIN-like experiments. The model is constructed from the responses of each individual experimental component: the tritium source, the spectrometer and the detector. The influence of systematic uncertainties is discussed.
| Session and Location | Monday Session, Poster Wall #133 (Hölderlin-Room) |
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| Poster included in proceedings: | yes |
Primary authors
Dr
Alexey Lokhov
(Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)
Dr
Martin Slezák
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Co-authors
Anton Huber
(KIT)
Ellen Förstner
(KIT)
Federico Roccati
(MPP & TUM)
Leonard Köllenberger
(KIT)
Madlen Steven
(MPP & TUM)
Marc Korzeczek
(KIT)
Dr
Susanne Mertens
(MPP & TUM)
