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Main Spectrometer has arrived at FZK!! (videos, photos etc)

Update:	05-Jan-2006

Karlsruhe Tritium

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Neutrino Experiment

The KATRIN experiment is designed to measure the mass of the electron neutrino directly with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV. It is a next generation tritium beta-decay experiment scaling up the size and precision of previous experiments by an order of magnitude as well as the intensity of the tritium beta source.

KATRIN from Tritium Source to Detector - please click on the image

KATRIN is a joint effort of several European and U.S. institutions. The number of people involved in KATRIN is still growing. Currently there are about 100 scientists, engineers, technicians and students involved, including most of the groups that have worked on tritium beta-decay experiments in recent years. KATRIN is being built at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany where much of the required technical infrastructure is already available, especially for the tritium source.