The Use of Low Temperature Detectors for Direct Measurements of the Mass of the Electron Neutrino

Figure 27

Calculated experimental EC calorimetric spectrum for , , , and (blue). The pile-up spectrum is the red curve (a). Monte Carlo estimated statistical sensitivity for , s, and , , , and (from top to bottom). The dashed lines are the extrapolations of and curves using scaling law. For , an extrapolated sensitivity of 0.1 eV can be obtained, for example, with an exposure of about detector × year and a single pixel activity of about  Bq (b).

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