3 papers
physics.ins-det2025
An LNGS Mobile Neutron Detector (ALMOND): Mapping Ambient Neutron Background of Gran Sasso National Laboratory
Melih Solmaz, Klaus Eitel, Alfredo Davide Ferella +3
In deep underground laboratories, environmental neutrons, which are produced at the cavern walls, introduce a source of background to rare event searches. The flux and spectrum of…
physics.ins-det2025
Commissioning of a mobile neutron spectrometer for LNGS
Francesco Pompa, Klaus Eitel, Alfredo Davide Ferella +3
Environmental neutrons are a source of background for rare event searches in underground laboratories. Since the majority of the neutron background comes from the cavern walls due…
hep-ex2025
Sterile-neutrino search based on 259 days of KATRIN data
Himal Acharya, Max Aker, Dominic Batzler +132
Neutrinos are the most abundant fundamental matter particles in the Universe and play a crucial role in particle physics and cosmology. Neutrino oscillation, discovered about 25 ye…