B.A. VanDevender

TL;DR: An upper limit of 1.1 eV (90% confidence level) is derived on the absolute mass scale of neutrinos on the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment KATRIN, which improves upon previous mass limits from kinematic measurements by almost a factor of 2 and provides model-independent input to cosmological studies of structure formation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combined analysis of solar neutrino data from all phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was presented, which showed that particle identification information obtained from the proportional counters installed during the third phase improved background rejection in that phase of the experiment.

TL;DR: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) used an array of He3 proportional counters to measure the rate of neutral-current interactions in heavy water and precisely determined the total active (x) B8 solar neutrino flux as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a joint analysis of Phase I and Phase II data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is reported, where the total flux of active-flavor neutrinos from 8B decay in the Sun measured using the neutral current (NC) reaction, with no constraint on the 8B neutrino energy spectrum, is found to be FNC=5.5 MeV, the lowest analysis threshold yet achieved with water Cherenkov detector data.

TL;DR: The focal plane detector system for the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment as discussed by the authors consists of a multi-pixel silicon p-i-n-diode array, custom readout electronics, two superconducting solenoid magnets, an ultra high-vacuum system, a high voxel system, calibration and monitoring devices, a scintillating veto, and a custom data-acquisition system.