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

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physics.ins-det2026

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.…

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

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…

nucl-ex2024★ 115 cited

Direct neutrino-mass measurement based on 259 days of KATRIN data

M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian +146

The fact that neutrinos carry a non-vanishing rest mass is evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles. Their absolute mass bears important relevance from…

nucl-ex2022★ 13 cited

Search for Lorentz-Invariance Violation with the first KATRIN data

M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian +130

Some extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics allow for Lorentz invariance and Charge-Parity-Time (CPT)-invariance violations. In the neutrino sector strong constraints…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

Wideband precision stabilization of the -18.6 kV retarding voltage for the KATRIN spectrometer

C. Rodenbeck, S. Wüstling, S. Enomoto +4

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) measures the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with an unprecedented design sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90 % C.L.). In this experi…

nucl-ex2022★ 39 cited

KATRIN: Status and Prospects for the Neutrino Mass and Beyond

M. Aker, M. Balzer, D. Batzler +159

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to measure a high-precision integral spectrum of the endpoint region of T2 beta decay, with the primary goal of probi…

nucl-ex2022

New Constraint on the Local Relic Neutrino Background Overdensity with the First KATRIN Data Runs

M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian +129

We report on the direct cosmic relic neutrino background search from the first two science runs of the KATRIN experiment in 2019. Beta-decay electrons from a high-purity molecular…

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 5 cited

Forward Beam Monitor for the KATRIN experiment

A. Beglarian, E. Ellinger, N. Haußmann +7

The \textit{KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino} (KATRIN) experiment aims to measure the neutrino mass with a sensitivity of \SI{0.2}{\electronvolt} (\SI{90}{\percent} CL). This will be ach…

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★ 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…

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 28 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 4 cited

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…

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.…

physics.ins-det2018★ 22 cited

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-…

physics.ins-det2018★ 29 cited

First transmission of electrons and ions through the KATRIN beamline

M. Arenz, W. -J. Baek, M. Beck +126

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is a large-scale effort to probe the absolute neutrino mass scale with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% confidence level), via a prec…

physics.ins-det2017★ 16 cited

Technical design and commissioning of the KATRIN large-volume air coil system

M. Erhard, J. Behrens, S. Bauer +15

The KATRIN experiment is a next-generation direct neutrino mass experiment with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% C.L.) to the effective mass of the electron neutrino. It measures the t…