Pub Date : 2021-05-18DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-544214/V1
M. Aker, M. Bottcher, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, B. Bieringer, F. Block, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, T. Brunst, T. Caldwell, R. Carney, L. L. Cascio, S. Chilingaryan, W. Choi, K. Debowski, M. Deffert, M. Descher, D. D. Barrero, P. Doe, O. Dragouns, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, A. Felden, J. Formaggio, F. Frankle, G. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, K. Gauda, W. Gil, F. Gluck, R. Grossle, R. Gumbsheimer, V. Gupta, T. Hohn, V. Hannen, N. Haussmann, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hiller, D. Hillsheimer, D. Hinz, T. Houdy, A. Huber, A. Jansen, C. Karl, F. Kellerer, J. Kellerer, M. Klein, C. Kohler, L. Kollenberger, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, H. Krause, N. Kunka, T. Lasserre, T. Le, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, E. Malcherek, M. Mark, A. Marsteller, E. Martín, C. Melzer, A. Menshikov, S. Mertens, S. Mertens, J. Mostafa, K. Muller, S. Niemes, P. Oelpmann, D. Parno, A. Poon, J. Poyato, F. Priester, M. Rollig, C. Rottele, R
We report the results of the second measurement campaign of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment. KATRIN probes the effective electron anti-neutrino mass, mν, via a high-precision measurement of the tritium β-decay spectrum close to its endpoint at 18.6 keV. In the second physics run presented here, the source activity was increased by a factor of 3.8 and the background was reduced by 25% with respect to the first campaign. A sensitivity on mν of 0.7 eV/c2 at 90% confidence level (CL) was reached. This is the first sub-eV sensitivity from a direct neutrino-mass experiment. The best fit to the spectral data yields mν2=(0.26±0.34) eV2/c4, resulting in an upper limit of mν<0.9 eV/c2 (90% CL). By combining this result with the first neutrino mass campaign, we find an upper limit of mν<0.8 eV/c2 (90% CL).
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.102004
D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Carugno, N. Crescini, D. D'Agostino, D. Di Gioacchino, R. Di Vora, P. Falferi, U. Gambardella, C. Gatti, G. Iannone, C. Ligi, A. Lombardi, G. Maccarrone, A. Ortolan, R. Pengo, A. Rettaroli, G. Ruoso, L. Taffarello, S. Tocci
An haloscope of the QUAX--$agamma$ experiment composed of an OFHC-Cu cavity inside an 8.1 T magnet and cooled to $sim200$ mK was put in operation for the search of galactic axion with mass $m_asimeq43~mutext{eV}$. The power emitted by the resonant cavity was amplified with a Josephson Parametric Amplifier whose noise fluctuations are at the Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). With the data collected in about 1 h at the cavity frequency $nu_c=10.40176$ GHz the experiment reached the sensitivity necessary for the detection of galactic QCD-axion setting the $90%$ confidence level (CL) limit to the axion-photon coupling $g_{agammagamma}<0.639cdot10^{-13}$ GeV$^{-1}$.
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