Abstract

The determination of the neutrino mass is one of the major challenges in astroparticle physics today. Direct neutrino mass experiments, based solely on the kinematics of β-decay, provide a largely model-independent probe to the neutrino mass scale. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to directly measure the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2eV (90% CL). In this work we report on the first operation of KATRIN with tritium which took place in 2018. During this commissioning phase of the tritium circulation system, excellent agreement of the theoretical prediction with the recorded spectra was found and stable conditions over a time period of 13 days could be established. These results are an essential prerequisite for the subsequent neutrino mass measurements with KATRIN in 2019.

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Title
First operation of the KATRIN experiment with tritium
Author
Aker, Max 1 ; Altenmüller Konrad 2 ; Arenz Marius 3 ; Woo-Jeong, Baek 4 ; Barrett, John 5 ; Beglarian Armen 6 ; Behrens, Jan 7 ; Berlev Anatoly 8 ; Besserer Uwe 1 ; Blaum Klaus 9 ; Block, Fabian 4 ; Bobien Steffen 10 ; Bornschein Beate 1 ; Bornschein Lutz 11 ; Bouquet Heiko 6 ; Brunst, Tim 12 ; Caldwell, Thomas S 13 ; Chilingaryan Suren 6 ; Choi Wonqook 4 ; Debowski Karol 14 ; Deffert Marco 4 ; Descher Martin 4 ; Díaz Barrero Deseada 15 ; Doe, Peter J 16 ; Otokar, Dragoun 17 ; Drexlin Guido 4 ; Dyba Stephan 18 ; Edzards Frank 12 ; Eitel, Klaus 11 ; Ellinger Enrico 14 ; Engel, Ralph 11 ; Enomoto Sanshiro 16 ; Eversheim Dieter 3 ; Fedkevych Mariia 18 ; Felden Arne 11 ; Formaggio, Joseph A 5 ; Fränkle, Florian M 11 ; Franklin, Gregg B 19 ; Frankrone Heinz 6 ; Friedel Fabian 7 ; Fuchs Dominik 12 ; Fulst Alexander 18 ; Gauda, Kevin 18 ; Woosik, Gil 11 ; Glück Ferenc 11 ; Grohmann Steffen 10 ; Grössle Robin 1 ; Gumbsheimer Rainer 11 ; Hackenjos Moritz 20 ; Hannen Volker 18 ; Hartmann, Julius 6 ; Haußmann Norman 14 ; Ha-Minh, Martin 12 ; Heizmann Florian 4 ; Heizmann Johannes 4 ; Helbing, Klaus 14 ; Hickford, Stephanie 21 ; Hillesheimer, David 1 ; Hinz, Dominic 11 ; Höhn, Thomas 11 ; Holzapfel Bernhard 10 ; Holzmann Siegfried 10 ; Houdy Thibaut 12 ; Howe, Mark A 13 ; Huber, Anton 4 ; Jansen, Alexander 11 ; Christian, Karl 12 ; Kellerer Jonas 4 ; Kernert Norbert 11 ; Kippenbrock Luke 16 ; Klein, Manuel 7 ; Köhler Christoph 12 ; Köllenberger Leonard 11 ; Kopmann Andreas 6 ; Korzeczek Marc 4 ; Kovalík Alojz 22 ; Bennet, Krasch 1 ; Krause, Holger 11 ; Kuffner Benedikt 11 ; Kunka Norbert 6 ; Lasserre Thierry 23 ; La Cascio Luisa 4 ; Lebeda Ondřej 22 ; Lebert, Manuel 12 ; Lehnert Björn 24 ; Letnev Johann 25 ; Leven Fabian 4 ; Thanh-Long, Le 1 ; Lichter Steffen 11 ; Lokhov Alexey 26 ; Machatschek Moritz 4 ; Malcherek Emma 11 ; Martin, Mark 11 ; Marsteller, Alexander 1 ; Martin, Eric L 27 ; Megas Fotios 12 ; Melzer Christin 1 ; Menshikov, Alexander 6 ; Mertens, Susanne 12 ; Meier, Matthias 12 ; Mirz Sebastian 1 ; Monreal, Benjamin 28 ; Morales Guzmán Pablo I 12 ; Müller, Klaus 11 ; Naumann Uwe 14 ; Neumann Holger 10 ; Niemes, Simon 1 ; Noe, Mathias 10 ; Off Andreas 1 ; Hans-Werner, Ortjohann 18 ; Osipowicz Alexander 29 ; Otten, Ernst 30 ; Parno, Diana S 19 ; Pollithy Anna 12 ; Poon Alan W P 24 ; Lopez Poyato J Manuel 15 ; Priester Florian 1 ; Ranitzsch, Philipp C-O 18 ; Rest, Oliver 18 ; Rinderspacher Rolf 11 ; Hamish, Robertson R G 16 ; Rodenbeck Caroline 18 ; Rohr Petra 6 ; Röllig, Marco 1 ; Röttele Carsten 7 ; Ryšavý Miloš 22 ; Sack, Rudolf 18 ; Saenz, Alejandro 31 ; Schäfer, Peter 1 ; Schimpf Lutz 4 ; Schlösser, Klaus 11 ; Schlösser Magnus 1 ; Schlüter, Lisa 12 ; Schrank, Michael 11 ; Schulz, Bruno 31 ; Seitz-Moskaliuk Hendrik 4 ; Seller Waldemar 32 ; Sibille Valérian 5 ; Siegmann, Daniel 12 ; Slezák, Martin 12 ; Spanier, Felix 11 ; Steidl, Markus 11 ; Madlen, Steven 12 ; Sturm, Michael 1 ; Suesser Manfred 10 ; Sun Menglei 16 ; Tcherniakhovski Denis 6 ; Telle, Helmut H 15 ; Thorne, Larisa A 19 ; Thümmler, Thomas 11 ; Titov Nikita 8 ; Tkachev Igor 8 ; Trost Nikolaus 11 ; Urban Korbinian 12 ; Valerius Kathrin 11 ; Drahoslav, Vénos 22 ; Vianden Reiner 3 ; Vizcaya Hernández Ana P 19 ; Weber, Marc 6 ; Weinheimer, Christian 18 ; Weiss, Christiane 33 ; Welte, Stefan 1 ; Wendel Jürgen 1 ; Wilkerson, John F 34 ; Wolf, Joachim 4 ; Wüstling Sascha 6 ; Xu Weiran 5 ; Yung-Ruey, Yen 19 ; Zadorozhny Sergey 8 ; Zeller Genrich 1 

1  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
2  Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany (GRID:grid.6936.a) (ISNI:0000000123222966); Université Paris-Saclay, IRFU (DPhP & APC), CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (GRID:grid.460789.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 4910 6535) 
3  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Bonn, Germany (GRID:grid.10388.32) (ISNI:0000 0001 2240 3300) 
4  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP), Karlsruhe, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
5  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Cambridge, USA (GRID:grid.116068.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 2341 2786) 
6  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Data Processing and Electronics (IPE), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
7  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP), Karlsruhe, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
8  Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (GRID:grid.425051.7) (ISNI:0000 0000 9467 3767) 
9  Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany (GRID:grid.419604.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 2288 6103) 
10  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
11  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
12  Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany (GRID:grid.6936.a) (ISNI:0000000123222966); Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany (GRID:grid.435824.c) (ISNI:0000 0001 2375 0603) 
13  University of North Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Chapel Hill, USA (GRID:grid.410711.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1034 1720); Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, USA (GRID:grid.440684.a) 
14  University of Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Wuppertal, Germany (GRID:grid.7787.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2364 5811) 
15  Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Madrid, Spain (GRID:grid.5515.4) (ISNI:0000000119578126) 
16  University of Washington, Department of Physics, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Seattle, USA (GRID:grid.34477.33) (ISNI:0000000122986657) 
17  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, v. v. i., Řež, Czech Republic (GRID:grid.34477.33) 
18  Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany (GRID:grid.5949.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 2172 9288) 
19  Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics, Pittsburgh, USA (GRID:grid.147455.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 2097 0344) 
20  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP), Karlsruhe, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
21  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874); University of Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Wuppertal, Germany (GRID:grid.7787.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2364 5811) 
22  Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, v. v. i., Řež, Czech Republic (GRID:grid.7892.4) 
23  Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany (GRID:grid.6936.a) (ISNI:0000000123222966); Université Paris-Saclay, IRFU (DPhP & APC), CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (GRID:grid.460789.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 4910 6535); Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany (GRID:grid.435824.c) (ISNI:0000 0001 2375 0603) 
24  Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.184769.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2231 4551) 
25  University of Applied Sciences (HFD) Fulda, Fulda, Germany (GRID:grid.184769.5) 
26  Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (GRID:grid.425051.7) (ISNI:0000 0000 9467 3767); Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany (GRID:grid.5949.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 2172 9288) 
27  University of North Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Chapel Hill, USA (GRID:grid.410711.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1034 1720); Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, USA (GRID:grid.440684.a); University of Washington, Department of Physics, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Seattle, USA (GRID:grid.34477.33) (ISNI:0000000122986657) 
28  Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, Cleveland, USA (GRID:grid.67105.35) (ISNI:0000 0001 2164 3847) 
29  University of Applied Sciences (HFD) Fulda, Fulda, Germany (GRID:grid.5949.1) 
30  Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Physik, Mainz, Germany (GRID:grid.5802.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 1941 7111) 
31  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Berlin, Germany (GRID:grid.7468.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 2248 7639) 
32  University of Applied Sciences (HFD) Fulda, Fulda, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) 
33  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Project, Process, and Quality Management (PPQ), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (GRID:grid.7892.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 0075 5874) 
34  University of North Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Chapel Hill, USA (GRID:grid.410711.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1034 1720); Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, USA (GRID:grid.440684.a); Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA (GRID:grid.135519.a) (ISNI:0000 0004 0446 2659) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Mar 2020
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
14346044
e-ISSN
14346052
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7718-z
ProQuest document ID
2381956541
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