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29 March 2024
 
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Measuring the electron neutrino mass with improved sensitivity: the HOLMES experiment
A.Giachero ; B.Alpert ; D.Becker ; D.Bennett ; M.Biasotti ; C.Brofferio ; V.Ceriale ; G.Ceruti ; D.Corsini ; P.Day ; M.De Gerone ; R.Dressler ; M.Faverzani ; E.Ferri ; J.Fowler ; E.Fumagalli ; G.Gallucci ; J.Gard ; F.Gatti J.Hays-Wehle ; S.Heinitz ; G.Hilton ; U.Koester ; M.Lusignoli ; J.Mates ; S.Nisi ; A.Nucciotti ; A.Orlando ; L.Parodi ; G.Pessina ; G.Pizzigoni ; A.Puiu ; S.Ragazzi ; C.Reintsema ; M.Ribeiro-Gomes ; D.Schmidt ; D.Schumann ; F.Siccardi ; M.Sisti ; D.Swetz ; F.Terranova ; J.Ullom ; L.Vale ;
Date 12 Dec 2016
AbstractHOLMES is a new experiment aiming at directly measuring the neutrino mass with a sensitivity below 2 eV. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy released in the decay of $^{163}$Ho. The calorimetric measurement eliminates systematic uncertainties arising from the use of external beta sources, as in experiments with spectrometers. This measurement was proposed in 1982 by A. De Rujula and M. Lusignoli, but only recently the detector technological progress has allowed to design a sensitive experiment. HOLMES will deploy a large array of low temperature microcalorimeters with implanted $^{163}$Ho nuclei. HOLMES, besides being an important step forward in the direct neutrino mass measurement with a calorimetric approach, will also establish the potential of this approach to extend the sensitivity down to 0.1 eV and lower. In its final configuration HOLMES will collect about $3cdot 10^{13}$ decays with 1000 detectors characterized by an instrumental energy resolution of the order of few eV and a time resolution of few microseconds. To embed the $^{163}$Ho into the gold absorbers a custom mass separator ion implanter is being developed. The detectors used for the HOLMES experiment will be Mo/Cu bilayers TESs (Transition Edge Sensors) on SiN$_x$ membrane with gold absorbers. Microwave multiplexed rf-SQUIDs are the best available technique to read out large array of such detectors. An extensive R&D activity is in progress in order to maximize the multiplexing factor while preserving the performances of the individual detectors. The current activities are focused on the the single detector performances optimization and on the $^{163}$Ho isotope production and embedding. A preliminary measurement of a sub-array of $4 imes 16$ detectors is planned late in 2017. In this contribution we present the HOLMES project with its technical challenges, its status and perspectives.
Source arXiv, 1612.3947
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