22–26 Jun 2026
Richard Roberts Auditorium
Europe/London timezone

Towards the final analysis of the KATRIN data

Not scheduled
20m
Richard Roberts Auditorium

Richard Roberts Auditorium

13 Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF
Contributed Talk

Speaker

Karo Erhardt (KIT)

Description

The KATRIN experiment aims at direct kinematic measurement of the neutrino mass with the expected sensitivity below 300 meV (90% CL), performing a high-resolution, high-statistics spectroscopy of tritium beta-decay. To reach such sensitivity, the systematic effects, modifying the measured electron spectrum shape have to be modeled and controlled by dedicated calibration measurements.
KATRIN obtained the world-leading direct constraint on the effective mass of the electron antineutrino of 0.45 eV (90% CL) using only 16% of the data. The final dataset of KATRIN contains 1000 days of tritium spectra recorded by the end of 2025 and therefore increases the statistics by a factor of 6 compared to previous results.
In this talk after introducing the framework of the analysis, the challenges and steps towards the analysis of the full KATRIN dataset are presented.

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