22 June 2020 to 2 July 2020
US/Central timezone

Ion monitoring within the KATRIN experiment

Not scheduled
10m

Speakers

Ana Paula Vizcaya Hernández (Carnegie Mellon University) Fabian Friedel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)Dr Magnus Schloesser (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Description

The KATRIN (KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino) experiment aims to measure the effective neutrino mass with an unprecedented design sensitivity of 0.2 eV at the 90% confidence level by measuring the energy of the electron that is produced in tritium beta decay. Magnetic fields guide charged particles through the energy-analyzing retarding spectrometers towards the detector. In this process, ions produced from the decay act as a background source as they further ionize residual gas and produce secondary electrons. Ion-blocking mechanisms are implemented in the source and transport section for which we found preferred settings and neutralization times. We monitor the small ion flux in the spectrometers by the current that they make by striking electrodes along the beamline and by electron generation by ion-impact in the spectrometer. We will present results from commissioning tests as well as the performance during our first neutrino mass measurement campaigns.

Mini-abstract

The ion flow in the KATRIN experiment is monitored and found to be below the specified limit

Experiment/Collaboration The KATRIN Collaboration

Primary authors

Ana Paula Vizcaya Hernández (Carnegie Mellon University) Fabian Friedel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Dr Magnus Schloesser (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Presentation materials