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The 2025 ANS election results are in!
Spring marks the passing of the torch for American Nuclear Society leadership. During this election cycle, ANS members voted for the newest vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and six board of director positions (four U.S., one non-U.S., one student). New professional division leadership was also decided on in this election, which opened February 25 and closed April 15. About 21 percent of eligible members of the Society voted—a similar turnout to last year.
Lutz Bornschein, Beate Bornschein, Sylvia Ebenhöch, Moritz Hackenjos, Florian Priester, Marco Röllig, Michael Sturm, Thomas Thümmler, KATRIN Collaboration
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 4 | May 2017 | Pages 485-490
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1291241
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Among the most important questions in fundamental physics and cosmology are the origin and the masses of fundamental particles, in particular the neutrino masses. KATRIN will allow a model-independent measurement of the neutrino mass scale with an expected sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2 (90% CL). KATRIN will use a source of ultrapure molecular tritium and is currently being commissioned at KIT, thereby making use of the unique expertise of the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe. This paper presents the status of the KATRIN experiment, with the focus on the activity monitoring of the KATRIN tritium source.
