The absolute neutrino mass is still an unknown parameter in the modern landscape of particle physics. The HOLMES experiment aims at exploiting the calorimetric approach to directly measure the neutrino mass through the kinematic measurement of the decay products of the weak process decay of 163Ho. This low energy decaying isotope, in fact, undergoes electron capture emitting a neutrino and leaving the daughter atom, 163Dy∗, in an atomic excited state. This, in turn, relaxes by emitting electrons and, to a considerably lesser extent, photons. The high-energy portion of the calorimetric spectrum of this decay is affected by the non-vanishing neutrino mass value. Given the small fraction of events falling within the region of interest, to achieve a high experimental sensitivity on the neutrino mass, it is important to have a high activity combined with a very small undetected pileup contribution. To achieve these targets, the final configuration of HOLMES foresees the deployment of a large number of 163Ho ion-implanted TESs characterized by an ambitiously high activity of 300 Hz each. In this paper, we outline the status of the major tasks that will bring HOLMES to achieve a statistical sensitivity on the neutrino mass as low as 2 eV/c2.

Faverzani, M., Alpert, B., Balata, M., Backer, D., Bennet, D., Bevilaqua, A., et al. (2020). Status of the HOLMES Experiment. JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, 199(3-4), 1098-1106 [10.1007/s10909-020-02385-7].

Status of the HOLMES Experiment

Faverzani, M.
;
Borghesi, M.;Ferri, E.;Giachero, A.;Nucciotti, A.;Pessina, G.;Puiu, A.;Ragazzi, S.;
2020

Abstract

The absolute neutrino mass is still an unknown parameter in the modern landscape of particle physics. The HOLMES experiment aims at exploiting the calorimetric approach to directly measure the neutrino mass through the kinematic measurement of the decay products of the weak process decay of 163Ho. This low energy decaying isotope, in fact, undergoes electron capture emitting a neutrino and leaving the daughter atom, 163Dy∗, in an atomic excited state. This, in turn, relaxes by emitting electrons and, to a considerably lesser extent, photons. The high-energy portion of the calorimetric spectrum of this decay is affected by the non-vanishing neutrino mass value. Given the small fraction of events falling within the region of interest, to achieve a high experimental sensitivity on the neutrino mass, it is important to have a high activity combined with a very small undetected pileup contribution. To achieve these targets, the final configuration of HOLMES foresees the deployment of a large number of 163Ho ion-implanted TESs characterized by an ambitiously high activity of 300 Hz each. In this paper, we outline the status of the major tasks that will bring HOLMES to achieve a statistical sensitivity on the neutrino mass as low as 2 eV/c2.
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Neutrino mass; Transition edge sensors; Electron capture
English
2020
199
3-4
1098
1106
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Faverzani, M., Alpert, B., Balata, M., Backer, D., Bennet, D., Bevilaqua, A., et al. (2020). Status of the HOLMES Experiment. JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, 199(3-4), 1098-1106 [10.1007/s10909-020-02385-7].
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