The KATRIN magnet system

Author

Gehring, R. ; Bonn, J. ; Bornschein, B. ; Flatt, B. ; Juengst, K.-P. ; Neumann, H. ; Osipowicz, A. ; Pitel, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Tech. Phys., Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

14

Issue

2

fYear

2004

fDate

6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

589

Lastpage

591

Abstract

For the proposed neutrino experiment KATRIN a new magnet system has to be designed. The superconducting magnet system has to guide the electrons originating from tritium beta decay from the source through the spectrometer to the detector. In order to determine the neutrino mass by measuring the electron energy spectrum the magnet system has to transport the electrons adiabatically along the 70 meter long experiment. The typical field of the system will be 5.6 T. Different sections of the magnetic transport system serve additional purposes so that a high precision measurement can be performed. The overall design as well as some details on different sections are presented in this paper.

Keywords

beam handling equipment; electron optics; superconducting magnets; 5.6 T; KATRIN magnet system; Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment; beta beams; electron energy spectrum; magnetic transport system; neutrino mass; superconducting magnet; tritium beta decay; Coils; Detectors; Electrons; Filters; Magnetic fields; Magnetic flux; Magnetic separation; Neutrino sources; Spectroscopy; Superconducting magnets; Beta beams; neutrinos; superconducting magnets;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2004.829981

Filename

1324862