Physical effects which distort measurement of the rest mass of the neutrino from beta spectra |
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Authors: | M E Gertsenshtein |
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Institution: | (1) Scientific-Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, USSR |
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Abstract: | Various physical effects which distort the result at the 1-eV accuracy level are discussed in connection with the experimental possibility of raising the sensitivity to the neutrino rest mass m
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to a value of the order of (1 eV)2 in measurements of the beta spectra of tritium decay. There is no contradiction in an integrated spectrometer between the accuracy, the resolution, and the statistics, which there is in a differential spectrometer, and the mass sensitivity range is significantly greater. The statistical reliability of the measurements on section A of the Curie curve — Fig. 1 — is discussed, in which the problem reduces to the determination of the coefficients of the expansion (4). It is necessary in a monolayer source at an accuracy level of the order of 1–3 eV to introduce correctionfor the formation of an excited helium atom. The remaining effects are at the 1-eV level. The possibility of measuring the Curie curve in region C — near the cutoff — is demonstrated.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 29–36, April, 1984. |
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