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Energy Calibration and Performance of HPGe Detectors in the LEGEND-200 Experiment
The LEGEND Collaboration, H. Acharya, M. Agostini +259
This paper describes the energy scale procedures and germanium detectors performance in the LEGEND-200 experiment, a critical component for the first unblinding in the search for n…
The Remote Analog to Digital Conversion DAQ System for the TRISTAN Detector Upgrade
Andrew S. Gavin, Matthias Balzer, Suren Chilingaryan +10
The TRISTAN detector is an upgrade to the KATRIN experiment to enable a differential measurement of the tritium -decay spectrum to search for sterile neutrinos with keV masses.…
Investigations of Charge Collection and Signal Timing in a multi-pixel Silicon Drift Detector
Christian Forstner, Korbinian Urban, Marco Carminati +7
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. The Karlsruhe Triti…
Measurement of the electric potential and the magnetic field in the shifted analysing plane of the KATRIN experiment
M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian +135
The projected sensitivity of the effective electron neutrino-mass measurement with the KATRIN experiment is below 0.3 eV (90 % CL) after five years of data acquisition. The sensiti…
Investigation of Electron Backscattering on Silicon Drift Detectors for the Sterile Neutrino Search with TRISTAN
Daniela Spreng, Korbinian Urban, Marco Carminati +7
Sterile neutrinos are hypothetical particles in the minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. They could be viable dark matter candidates if they have a mass in…
A thermionic electron gun to characterize silicon drift detectors with electrons
Korbinian Urban, Matteo Biassoni, Marco Carminati +8
The TRISTAN detector is a new detector for electron spectroscopy at the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment. The semiconductor detector utilizes the silicon drift detect…
Development of a Silicon Drift Detector Array to Search for keV-scale Sterile Neutrinos with the KATRIN Experiment
Daniel Siegmann, Frank Edzards, Christina Bruch +25
Sterile neutrinos in the keV mass range present a viable candidate for dark matter. They can be detected through single decay, where they cause small spectral distortions. The…
Characterization measurements of the TRISTAN multi-pixel silicon drift detector
Korbinian Urban, Marco Carminati, Martin Descher +12
Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A laboratory-based approach to search for this particle is via tritium beta-decay, where a ster…
Surface characterization of p-type point contact germanium detectors
F. Edzards, L. Hauertmann, I. Abt +7
P-type point contact (PPC) germanium detectors are used in rare event and low-background searches, including neutrinoless double beta (0vbb) decay, low-energy nuclear recoils, and…
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…
Hunting keV sterile neutrinos with KATRIN: building the first TRISTAN module
Thibaut Houdy, Antonio Alborini, Konrad Altenmüller +21
The KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment investigates the energetic endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum to determine the effective mass of the electron anti-neutr…
Measurements with a TRISTAN prototype detector system at the "Troitsk nu-mass" experiment in integral and differential mode
Tim Brunst, Thibaut Houdy, Susanne Mertens +22
Sterile neutrinos emerge in minimal extensions of the Standard Model which can solve a number of open questions in astroparticle physics. For example, sterile neutrinos in the keV-…
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…
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…
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…
Impact of a cryogenic baffle system on the suppression of radon-induced background in the KATRIN Pre-Spectrometer
S. Goerhardt, J. Bonn, L. Bornschein +9
The KATRIN experiment will determine the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 200 meV/c at 90% CL. The energy analysis of tritium -decay electrons wil…
The KATRIN Superconducting Magnets: Overview and First Performance Results
M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek, M. Beck +121
The KATRIN experiment aims for the determination of the effective electron anti-neutrino mass from the tritium beta-decay with an unprecedented sub-eV sensitivity. The strong magne…
Reduction of stored-particle background by a magnetic pulse method at the KATRIN experiment
KATRIN Collaboration, M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek +127
The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the effective electron neutrino mass with a sensitivity of (90\% C.L.) by precision measurement of the shape of the t…
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.…
Characterization of High Purity Germanium Point Contact Detectors with Low Net Impurity Concentration
S. Mertens, A. Hegai, D. C. Radford +5
High Purity germanium point-contact detectors have low energy thresholds and excellent energy resolution over a wide energy range, and are thus widely used in nuclear and particle…
Calibration of high voltages at the ppm level by the difference of Kr conversion electron lines at the KATRIN experiment
M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek, M. Beck +124
The neutrino mass experiment KATRIN requires a stability of 3 ppm for the retarding potential at -18.6 kV of the main spectrometer. To monitor the stability, two custom-made ultra-…
Impact of ADC non-linearities on the sensitivity to sterile keV neutrinos with a KATRIN-like experiment
K. Dolde, S. Mertens, D. Radford +5
ADC non-linearities are a major systematic effect in the search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with tritium -decay experiments like KATRIN. They can significantly distort the s…
Sensitivity of Next-Generation Tritium Beta-Decay Experiments for keV-Scale Sterile Neutrinos
S. Mertens, T. Lasserre, S. Groh +6
We investigate the sensitivity of tritium -decay experiments for keV-scale sterile neutrinos. Relic sterile neutrinos in the keV mass range can contribute both to the cold and w…
The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment
Majorana Collaboration, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +82
The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the isotope Ge-76 with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. The observati…