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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 32: Postersession Superconductivity: Josephson Junctions, SQUIDs, Heterostructures, Andreev Scattering, Vortex Physics, Cryodetectors, Measuring Devices, Cryotechnique

TT 32.24: Poster

Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 14:00–18:00, P1A

Low temperature metallic magnetic calorimeters for neutrino mass direct measurement — •Jan-Patrick Porst, Falk von Seggern, Loredana Fleischmann, Andreas Fleischmann, and Christian Enss — Universität Heidelberg, Kirchhoff Institut für Physik, INF 227, 69120 Heidelberg

In the last years the mixing of the three neutrino flavor eigenstates through a unitary matrix has been experimentally proved. Presently one of the greatest challenges in neutrino physics is to establish the absolute value of the masses of the three neutrino mass eigenstates. The kinematic determination of electron neutrino and antineutrino mass by means of the analysis of calorimetric spectra of isotopes which undergo a beta or electron-capture decay, with especially low energy available for the decay itself, represents an interesting method. In fact this method is less affected by theoretical models defining branching ratio among different decay modes. For the beta decay the isotope with the lowest Q-value present in nature is the 187-Re (Q about 2.5 keV) while for the electron capture decay the best candidate known is the 163-Ho (Q about 2.5 keV). Since those experiments need to be extremely precise, they might suffer from unexpected systematic errors. It is therefore important to investigate in detail the performance of the detectors and the calorimetric spectrum. We present our results obtained with low temperature magnetic calorimeters designed for measuring low energy beta and electron capture spectra. We also discuss problematic and the possibly present systematic uncertainties using this kind of detectors.