Jun 25 – 28, 2024
ETH Zurich
Europe/Zurich timezone

Latest results from the KATRIN experiment and insights into the neural network approach

Jun 26, 2024, 1:35 PM
25m
HCI J4 (ETH Zurich)

HCI J4

ETH Zurich

ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg campus, Stefano-​​Franscini-​Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

Speaker

Alessandro Schwemmer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Description

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment probes the effective electron anti-neutrino mass by precisely measuring the tritium beta-decay spectrum close to its kinematic endpoint.
A world-leading upper limit of $0.8 \,$eV$\,$c$^{-2}$ (90$\,$\% CL) has been set with the first two measurement campaigns.
Subsequent improvements in operational conditions and a substantial increase in statistics allow us to expand this reach.
This talk features the latest KATRIN results and provides insight into the neural network approach used to perform the computationally challenging analysis. Moreover, a short outlook on the upcoming Bayesian analysis will be given.

This work received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, and is supported by the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, the ORIGINS Data Science Laboratory and the SFB1258.

Type of contribution Talk: 30 minutes.

Primary author

Alessandro Schwemmer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

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