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physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

Purification Efficiency and Radon Emanation of Gas Purifiers used with Pure and Binary Gas Mixtures for Gaseous Dark Matter Detectors

K., Altenmüller, J. F. Castel +22

Rare event searches require extreme radiopurity in all detector components. This includes the active medium, which in the case of gaseous detectors, is the operating gas. The gases…

physics.ins-det2021★ 76 cited

The Design, Construction, and Commissioning of the KATRIN Experiment

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, J. F. Amsbaugh +226

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment, which aims to make a direct and model-independent determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale, is a complex experiment wit…

hep-ex2021★ 51 cited

Analysis methods for the first KATRIN neutrino-mass measurement

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, A. Beglarian +126

We report on the data set, data handling, and detailed analysis techniques of the first neutrino-mass measurement by the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment, which probe…

hep-ex2020★ 42 cited

Bound on 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing from the first four-week science run of KATRIN

M. Aker, K. Altenmueller, A. Beglarian +126

We report on the light sterile neutrino search from the first four-week science run of the KATRIN experiment in~2019. Beta-decay electrons from a high-purity gaseous molecular trit…

physics.ins-det2020

Conceptual Design of BabyIAXO, the intermediate stage towards the International Axion Observatory

A. Abeln, K. Altenmüller, S. Arguedas Cuendis +123

This article describes BabyIAXO, an intermediate experimental stage of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO), proposed to be sited at DESY. IAXO is a large-scale axion heliosc…

physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

Characterization of Silicon Drift Detectors with Electrons for the TRISTAN Project

S. Mertens, T. Brunst, M. Korzeczek +30

Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A promising model-independent way to search for sterile neutrinos is via high-precision beta sp…

hep-ex2020★ 25 cited

Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +91

Neutrinos emitted in the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen (CNO) fusion cycle in the Sun are a sub-dominant, yet crucial component of solar neutrinos whose flux has not been measured yet. T…

physics.ins-det2019★ 7 cited

Suppression of Penning discharges between the KATRIN spectrometers

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, A. Beglarian +151

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to determine the effective electron (anti)neutrino mass with a sensitivity of (90 C.L.) by precise…

physics.ins-det2019★ 38 cited

First operation of the KATRIN experiment with tritium

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz +168

The determination of the neutrino mass is one of the major challenges in astroparticle physics today. Direct neutrino mass experiments, based solely on the kinematics of beta-decay…

hep-ex2019★ 476 cited

An improved upper limit on the neutrino mass from a direct kinematic method by KATRIN

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz +205

We report on the neutrino mass measurement result from the first four-week science run of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment KATRIN in spring 2019. Beta-decay electrons from…

hep-ex2019★ 2 cited

Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +101

We report on searches for neutrinos and antineutrinos from astrophysical sources performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Electron…

hep-ex2019★ 87 cited

Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +109

This paper presents a geoneutrino measurement using 3262.74 days of data taken with the Borexino detector at LNGS in Italy. By observing $52.6 ^{+9.4}_{-8.6} ({\rm stat}) ^{+2.7}_{…

hep-ph2019★ 28 cited

Constraints on Flavor-Diagonal Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions from Borexino Phase-II

S. K. Agarwalla, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +103

The Borexino detector measures solar neutrino fluxes via neutrino-electron elastic scattering. Observed spectra are determined by the solar- survival probability …

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

High-resolution spectroscopy of gaseous Kr conversion electrons with the KATRIN experiment

K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek +124

In this work, we present the first spectroscopic measurements of conversion electrons originating from the decay of metastable gaseous Kr with the Karlsruhe Tritium…

physics.ins-det2019★ 14 cited

Gamma-induced background in the KATRIN main spectrometer

K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek +123

The KATRIN experiment aims to measure the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c using a gaseous tritium source combined with th…

physics.ins-det2018★ 72 cited

A novel detector system for KATRIN to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos

Susanne Mertens, Antonio Alborini, Konrad Altenmüller +19

Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. If their mass is in the kilo-electron-volt regime, they are viable dark matter candidates. One…

hep-ex2018★ 53 cited

Modulations of the Cosmic Muon Signal in Ten Years of Borexino Data

The Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +113

We have measured the flux of cosmic muons in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso at 3800\,m\,w.e. to be based on ten y…

physics.ins-det2018★ 14 cited

Muon-induced background in the KATRIN main spectrometer

K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek +131

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to make a model-independent determination of the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c.…

hep-ex2017★ 173 cited

Limiting neutrino magnetic moments with Borexino Phase-II solar neutrino data

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +104

A search for the solar neutrino effective magnetic moment has been performed using data from 1291.5 days exposure during the second phase of the Borexino experiment. No significant…

hep-ex2017★ 154 cited

Simultaneous Precision Spectroscopy of , Be, and Solar Neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +104

We present the first simultaneous measurement of the interaction rates of , Be, and solar neutrinos performed with a global fit to the Borexino data in an extended en…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 35 cited

A search for low-energy neutrinos correlated with gravitational wave events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104 with the Borexino detector

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +99

We present the results of a low-energy neutrino search using the Borexino detector in coincidence with the gravitational wave (GW) events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104. We search…

physics.ins-det2017★ 41 cited

The Monte Carlo simulation of the Borexino detector

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +97

We describe the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation package of the Borexino detector and discuss the agreement of its output with data. The Borexino MC 'ab initio' simulates the energy los…

hep-ex2017★ 38 cited

Seasonal Modulation of the Be Solar Neutrino Rate in Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +99

We detected the seasonal modulation of the Be neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The period, amplitude, a…