One of the major challenges in nowadays particle physics and astrophysics is the determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale. The HOLMES experiment aims at exploiting the calorimetric approach to directly measure the neutrino mass through the kinematic measurement of the decay products of163Ho electron capture (EC). 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 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 pile-up contribution. To achieve these targets, the final configuration of HOLMES foresees the deployment of a large number of163Ho ion-implanted TESs characterized by an ambitiously high activity of 300 Hz each. This contribution will provide an overview on the HOLMES project with its physics reach and technical challenges together with the status of the major tasks that will bring HOLMES to achieve a statistical sensitivity on the neutrino mass as low as 2 eV.
Ferri, E., Alpert, B., Balata, M., Becker, D., Bennet, D., Borghesi, M., et al. (2023). Status of HOLMES, an experiment for measuring the ν mass. In 11th Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, NOW 2022. Sissa Medialab Srl.
Status of HOLMES, an experiment for measuring the ν mass
Ferri E.;Borghesi M.;Faverzani M.;Giachero A.;Labranca D.;Nucciotti A.;Origo L.;Pessina G.;Ragazzi S.;
2023
Abstract
One of the major challenges in nowadays particle physics and astrophysics is the determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale. The HOLMES experiment aims at exploiting the calorimetric approach to directly measure the neutrino mass through the kinematic measurement of the decay products of163Ho electron capture (EC). 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 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 pile-up contribution. To achieve these targets, the final configuration of HOLMES foresees the deployment of a large number of163Ho ion-implanted TESs characterized by an ambitiously high activity of 300 Hz each. This contribution will provide an overview on the HOLMES project with its physics reach and technical challenges together with the status of the major tasks that will bring HOLMES to achieve a statistical sensitivity on the neutrino mass as low as 2 eV.
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