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HOLMES is an experiment aiming at performing a direct measurement of the neutrino mass from the electron capture (EC) spectrum of 163Ho. In order to reach a sensitivity of the order of ∼ 1 eV/c2 on the neutrino mass, it is necessary to gather as many as 10 13 events in the 3-year projected live time of HOLMES, keeping the pileup fraction as low...

One of the major challenges in nowadays particle physics and astrophysics is the determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale. The HOLMES experiment aims at exploiting the calorimetric approach to directly measure the neutrino mass through the kinematic measurement of the decay products of163Ho electron capture (EC). The high energy...

This work summarizes the current status of HOLMES, a calorimetric experiment for the direct neutrino mass measurement. The state-of-the-art in this field is represented by the KATRIN spectrometer that is under data-taking aiming at a sensitivity of 0.2 eV. HOLMES will prove the feasibility of the calorimetric approach, that is an alternative...

The neutrino mass is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model and the measurement of its value is one of the most compelling issues in particle physics. HOLMES is an experiment set up at the University of Milano-Bicocca aiming at performing a direct measurement of the neutrino mass from the Electron Capture (EC) decay of 163Ho. HOLMES will...