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keV-Scale sterile neutrino sensitivity estimation with time-of-flight spectroscopy in KATRIN using self-consistent approximate Monte Carlo

Steinbrink, Nicholas M. N.; Behrens, Jan D. 1; Mertens, Susanne; Ranitzsch, Philipp C.-O.; Weinheimer, Christian
1 Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

We investigate the sensitivity of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) to keV-scale sterile neutrinos, which are promising dark matter candidates. Since the active-sterile mixing would lead to a second component in the tritium β
β
-spectrum with a weak relative intensity of order sin 2 θ≲10 −6
sin2⁡θ≲10−6
, additional experimental strategies are required to extract this small signature and to eliminate systematics. A possible strategy is to run the experiment in an alternative time-of-flight (TOF) mode, yielding differential TOF spectra in contrast to the integrating standard mode. In order to estimate the sensitivity from a reduced sample size, a new analysis method, called self-consistent approximate Monte Carlo (SCAMC), has been developed. The simulations show that an ideal TOF mode would be able to achieve a statistical sensitivity of sin 2 θ∼5×10 −9
sin2⁡θ∼5×10−9
at one σ
σ
, improving the standard mode by approximately a factor two. This relative benefit grows significantly if additional exemplary systematics are considered. A possible implementation of the TOF mode with existing hardware, called gated filtering, is investigated, which, however, comes at the price of a reduced average signal rate.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000081222
Veröffentlicht am 19.03.2018
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DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5656-9
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP)
Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 03.2018
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1434-6044, 1434-6052
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-812222
KITopen-ID: 1000081222
HGF-Programm 51.03.01 (POF III, LK 01) Neutrinophysik
Erschienen in The European physical journal / C
Verlag Springer-Verlag
Band 78
Heft 3
Seiten 212
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