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Improved treatment of the T$$_2$$ molecular final-states uncertainties for the KATRIN neutrino-mass measurement

Schneidewind, S.; Schürmann, J.; Lokhov, A. 1; Weinheimer, C.; Saenz, A.
1 Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to determine the effective mass of the electron antineutrino via a high-precision measurement of the tritium β-decay spectrum in its end-point region. The target
neutrino-mass sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$ at 90% CL can only be achieved in the case of high statistics and good control of the systematic uncertainties. One key systematic effect originates from the calculation of the molecular final states of T$_2$ β decay. In the first neutrino-mass analyses of KATRIN the contribution of the uncertainty of the molecular finalstates distribution (FSD) was estimated via a conservative phenomenological approach to be 2 × 10$^{-2}$ eV$^2$/c$^4$. In this work a new procedure is presented for estimating the FSD-related uncertainties by considering the details of the finalstates calculation, i.e. the uncertainties of constants, parameters, and functions used in the calculation as well as its convergence itself as a function of the basis-set size used in expanding the molecular wave functions. The calculated uncertainties are directly propagated into the experimental observable, the squared neutrino mass m$^2_v$ , and thus have to be determined individually for each experimental configuration. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000172513
Veröffentlicht am 15.07.2024
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2024
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1434-6052
KITopen-ID: 1000172513
Erschienen in The European Physical Journal C
Verlag Springer-Verlag
Band 84
Heft 5
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 494
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 14.05.2024
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