https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3161-3
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Statistical sensitivity of 
Ho electron capture neutrino mass experiments
1
Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
* e-mail: angelo.nucciotti@mib.infn.it
Received:
22
May
2014
Accepted:
29
October
2014
Published online:
12
November
2014
Large calorimetric neutrino mass experiments using thermal detectors might be going to play a crucial role in the challenge for assessing the neutrino mass. This paper describes a tool based on Monte Carlo methods which has been developed to estimate the statistical sensitivity of calorimetric direct neutrino mass measurements using the Ho electron capture decay. The tool is applied to investigate the effect of various experimental parameters. In this paper I report the results useful for designing an experiment with sub-eV sensitivity.
© SIF and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014
