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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-det2025★ 1 cited

Development & Characterization of Electrodes for large-scale Xenon Time Projection Chambers

A. Elykov, S. Vetter, V. H. S. Wu +16

Dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers are the core detector elements of many experiments that conduct searches for Dark Matter and rare events, as well as in neutrino an…

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

Search for keV-scale Sterile Neutrinos with first KATRIN Data

M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian +128

In this work we present a keV-scale sterile-neutrino search with the first tritium data of the KATRIN experiment, acquired in the commissioning run in 2018. KATRIN performs a spect…

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★ 159 cited

A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…

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…

hep-ex2022★ 43 cited

Improved eV-scale Sterile-Neutrino Constraints from the Second KATRIN Measurement Campaign

M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian +128

We present the results of the light sterile neutrino search from the second KATRIN measurement campaign in 2019. Approaching nominal activity, tritium -electr…

hep-ex2021★ 24 cited

First direct neutrino-mass measurement with sub-eV sensitivity

M. Aker, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens +125

We report the results of the second measurement campaign of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment. KATRIN probes the effective electron anti-neutrino mass, , via…

physics.ins-det2021★ 16 cited

Precision measurement of the electron energy-loss function in tritium and deuterium gas for the KATRIN experiment

M. Aker, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens +132

The KATRIN experiment is designed for a direct and model-independent determination of the effective electron anti-neutrino mass via a high-precision measurement of the tritium -…

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★ 22 cited

Neutral tritium gas reduction in the KATRIN differential pumping sections

Alexander Marsteller, Beate Bornschein, Lutz Bornschein +19

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to measure the effective electron anti-neutrino mass with an unprecedented sensitivity of , u…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

Solar Neutrino Detection Sensitivity in DARWIN via Electron Scattering

J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud +163

We detail the sensitivity of the liquid xenon (LXe) DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure th…

physics.ins-det2020★ 3 cited

Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe

F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser +92

The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe. Out of its 50t tota…

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

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…

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…