Studies of Charge Accumulation In The KATRIN Main Spectrometer Public Deposited

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  • March 21, 2019
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  • Wierman, Kevin
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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  • 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.
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  • Cecil, Gerald
  • Wilkerson, John
  • Drut, Joaquin
  • Iliadis, Christian
  • Henning, Reyco
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  • Doctor of Philosophy
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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  • 2016
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