Measurement of the electric potential and the magnetic field in the shifted analysing plane of the KATRIN experiment
M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, J. Beisenkötter, M. Biassoni, B. Bieringer, Y. Biondi, F. Block, S. Bobien, M. Böttcher, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, T. S. Caldwell, M. Carminati, A. Chatrabhuti, S. Chilingaryan, B. A. Daniel, K. Debowski, M. Descher, D. Díaz Barrero, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, F. Edzards, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, A. Felden, C. Fengler, C. Fiorini, J. A. Formaggio, C. Forstner, F. M. Fränkle, K. Gauda, A. S. Gavin, W. Gil, F. Glück, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, V. Hannen, L. Hasselmann, N. Haußmann, K. Helbing, S. Heyns, S. Hickford, R. Hiller, D. Hillesheimer, D. Hinz, T. Höhn, A. Huber, A. Jansen, C. Karl, J. Kellerer, K. Khosonthongkee, C. Köhler, L. Köllenberger, A. Kopmann, N. Kovač, H. Krause, L. La Cascio, T. Lasserre, J. Lauer, T. L. Le, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, G. Li, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, M. Mark, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, K. McMichael, C. Melzer, S. Mertens, S. Mohanty, J. Mostafa, K. Müller, A. Nava, H. Neumann, S. Niemes, D. S. Parno, M. Pavan, U. Pinsook, A. W. P. Poon, J. M. L. Poyato, S. Pozzi, F. Priester, J. Ráliš, S. Ramachandran, R. G. H. Robertson, C. Rodenbeck, M. Röllig, R. Sack, A. Saenz, R. Salomon, P. Schäfer, M. Schlösser, K. Schlösser, L. Schlüter, S. Schneidewind, M. Schrank, J. Schürmann, A. K. Schütz, A. Schwemmer, A. Schwenck, M. Šefčík, D. Siegmann, F. Simon, F. Spanier, D. Spreng, W. Sreethawong, M. Steidl, J. Štorek, X. Stribl, M. Sturm, N. Suwonjandee, N. Tan Jerome, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, K. Urban, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, C. Weinheimer, S. Welte, J. Wendel, C. Wiesinger, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, J. Wydra, W. Xu, S. Zadorozhny, G. Zeller
Published: 2024/8/9
Abstract
The projected sensitivity of the effective electron neutrino-mass measurement with the KATRIN experiment is below 0.3 eV (90 % CL) after five years of data acquisition. The sensitivity is affected by the increased rate of the background electrons from KATRIN's main spectrometer. A special shifted-analysing-plane (SAP) configuration was developed to reduce this background by a factor of two. The complex layout of electromagnetic fields in the SAP configuration requires a robust method of estimating these fields. We present in this paper a dedicated calibration measurement of the fields using conversion electrons of gaseous $^\mathrm{83m}$Kr, which enables the neutrino-mass measurements in the SAP configuration.