Review Article

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

Table 4

Comparison of the ECHo, HOLMES, and NuMECS projects.

ECHo HOLMES NUMECS

Ho production (, γ) (, γ) Dy (, )
Absorber Gold Gold Nanoporous gold
Sensor Au:Er magnetic TES Mo/Cu TES Mo/Cu

Present status
at M1 peak [eV] 12 43 (incl. )
[s] 0.13
[Bq] 0.2 0.1

Projected ( eV)
100 1000 4096
[eV] <5 1
[s] <1 1
[Bq/detector] 10 300 100
[y] 1 3 1
[eV] 10 1.5 1