Published August 2012
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Journal article
Monte Carlo Simulations of the detector response to low energy electrons for KATRIN
- 1. KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
- 2. Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Box 354290, Seattle, WA 98195-4290 (United States)
- 3. Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Setif, 19000 Setif (Algeria)
Description
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) derives the mass of the electron anti-neutrino with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2 (90% C.L.) in a model-independent way from the measured energy spectrum of tritium β-decay electrons. The focal plane detector (FPD) is a large silicon PIN diode detecting the electrons transmitted by a large MAC-E spectrometer. To model the detector response to low-energy electrons, a full Monte Carlo simulation was developed and benchmarked.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.09.130Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.09.130;
- PII
- S0920-5632(12)00347-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
- Journal Volume
- 229-232
- Journal Page Range
- p. 493
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
- CODEN
- NPBSE7
Conference
- Title
- 24. international conference on neutrino physics and astrophysics
- Acronym
- Neutrino 2010
- Dates
- 14-19 Jun 2010
- Place
- Athens (Greece)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44103303
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY LOSSES; ENERGY SPECTRA; LAYERS; MASS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE DECAY; SENSITIVITY; SILICON; SPECTROMETERS; TRITIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CALCULATION METHODS; DECAY; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LEPTONS; LIGHT NUCLEI; LOSSES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; SCATTERING; SEMIMETALS; SIMULATION; SPECTRA; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.