Speaker
Alexey Lokhov
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Description
The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is searching for the signature of the neutrino mass in the endpoint region of the tritium beta-decay spectrum. KATRIN combines a high-intensity gaseous molecular tritium source with a high-resolution electrostatic spectrometer with magnetic adiabatic collimation which allowed KATRIN to reach a sub-eV sensitivity to the neutrino mass and to set an upper limit of 0.8 eV/c^2 (90% CL) already with the first 5% of the total expected data.
This talk discusses the analysis of a larger dataset with 25% of the KATRIN data and improvements in terms of signal-to-background ratio and systematics, and gives an outlook on the future prospects of KATRIN.
Primary author
Alexey Lokhov
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
