Speaker
Benjamin Monreal
(Case Western Reserve University)
Description
Enrico Fermi's 1934 paper, proposing the original weak-interation theory of beta decay, pointed out that the neutrino's mass would leave a signature in the endpoint of beta decay. 88 years later, the beta-decay endpoint remains our best source of neutrino-mass constraints. Better and better spectroscopy of the 18.6 keV endpoint of tritium has, for the past 30 years, provided the state-of-the-art, but other species remain interesting. In this talk, I will review recent results from KATRIN, and show plans for future experiments on 163Ho, 159Dy, and tritium, with a focus on the Project 8 cyclotron radiation electron spectroscopy project.
Primary author
Benjamin Monreal
(Case Western Reserve University)
