Studies of Charge Accumulation In The KATRIN Main Spectrometer Public Deposited
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Wierman, Kevin
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Abstract
- Experiments in recent years have shown neutrinos have non-zero rest mass. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) will directly probe the electron anti-neutrino mass using tritium beta decay. KATRIN's main spectrometer aims to provide a \\SI{0.2}{eV} sensitivity to the neutrino mass, an order of magnitude improvement over the previous generation of experiments. During KATRIN's most recent commissioning phase, a mono-energetic electron source was used to probe transmission properties and study associated potential systematic errors in the main spectrometer. Charge accumulation from this source is identified as a potential source for systematic error and the impact on the neutrino mass measurement is estimated.
- Date of publication
- December 2016
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- Wilkerson, John
- Cecil, Gerald
- Henning, Reyco
- Drut, Joaquin
- Iliadis, Christian
- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2016
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