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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Magnus Schlösser, KATRIN Collaboration
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 3 | April 2020 | Pages 170-178
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1668253
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) aims for a model-independent measurement of the neutrino mass scale with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c2 (90% confidence limit). This is made possible by using an ultrastable, high-luminosity windowless gaseous tritium source providing 1011 beta decays per second and a high-resolution integrating spectrometer with a resolution of <1 eV. Over the past years, the system was installed at the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe and commissioned in various stages while demonstrating the outstanding performance of the magnetic guiding, electron transmission, and stability of individual subsystems. In 2018, the KATRIN beamline was operated with traces of tritium for the very first time. In this campaign, first beta decay spectra could be recorded. This was essential to validate the physics model and the fitting methods of the KATRIN analysis. Furthermore, in the campaign it was demonstrated that the global KATRIN stability of 0.1% in this configuration was successfully reached. Based on these results—as well as those from a subsequent systematic calibration campaign—KATRIN is now performing neutrino mass measurement runs at nominal tritium purity.