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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-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-det2020★ 1 cited

KATRIN background due to surface radioimpurities

F. M. Fränkle, A. Schaller, C. Weinheimer +20

The goal of the KArlsruhe TRItrium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is the determination of the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c at 90% C.L. This…

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★ 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.comp-ph2016★ 47 cited

Kassiopeia: A Modern, Extensible C++ Particle Tracking Package

Daniel Furse, Stefan Groh, Nikolaus Trost +23

The Kassiopeia particle tracking framework is an object-oriented software package using modern C++ techniques, written originally to meet the needs of the KATRIN collaboration. Kas…

physics.ins-det2014★ 75 cited

Focal-plane detector system for the KATRIN experiment

J. F. Amsbaugh, J. Barrett, A. Beglarian +48

The focal-plane detector system for the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment consists of a multi-pixel silicon p-i-n-diode array, custom readout electronics, two supercon…

physics.ins-det2013★ 34 cited

Dead layer on silicon p-i-n diode charged-particle detectors

B. L. Wall, J. F. Amsbaugh, A. Beglarian +25

Semiconductor detectors in general have a dead layer at their surfaces that is either a result of natural or induced passivation, or is formed during the process of making a contac…