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English: Energy spectrum of tritium beta decay used by the KATRIN neutrino experiment. The neutrino mass is measured by analysing the end-point of the spectrum. In this plot three possible graphs are shown for massless, light and heavy neutrinos.
Deutsch: Energiespektrum des Tritium-Betazerfalls beim KATRIN-Neutrinoexperiment. Die Neutrinomasse wird durch die Vermessung des Spektrum-Endpunktes bestimmt. In diesem Diagramm sind drei mögliche Graphen für masselose, leichte und schwere Neutrinos dargestellt.
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This W3C-unspecified plot was created with Gnuplot.
# gnuplot
#
# use UTF-8 encoding for special characters
set encoding utf8
 
# create SVG output
set terminal svg enhanced size 1000 800 fsize 14
set output 'KATRIN Spectrum.svg'
 
reset
 
# set aspect ratio to y:x = 0.8
set size ratio 0.8
 
# erase top and right borders (only show x- and y-axis)
set border 3
set xtics nomirror
set ytics nomirror
 
# set line styles for the three graphs
set style line 1 lt 1 lw 1.5 lc rgb "#cf0000"
set style line 2 lt 1 lw 1.5 lc rgb "#00cf00"
set style line 3 lt 1 lw 1.5 lc rgb "#0000cf"
 
 
## Constants
# alpha	    - fine-structure constant
# me	    - electron rest mass
# E0	    - endpoint of the Tritium beta-decay spectrum
# c	    - speed of light
# hbar	    - reduced Planck constant
# GF	    - Fermi coupling constant
# thetaC    - Cabibbo angle
# Mnuc2	    - squared nuclear matrix element of Tritium beta-decay
# K	    - arbitrary scale factor
#
alpha       = 1/137.0
me          = 511.0e3
E0          = 18.6e3
#c	     = 2.99792458e8
#hbar	     = 6.58211928e-16
#GF	     = 1.16637e-5 * (hbar*c)**3
#thetaC	     = 13.4 * pi/180.0
#Mnuc2	     = 5.55
#K	     = 1/1.31529e74
K	    = 1/1.03503e19
 
# the energy distribution for Tritium beta decay
# E         - kinetic Energy
# E0        - Endpoint Energy
# me        - electron rest mass
# mn        - neutrino rest mass
# 
#
p(E)        = sqrt((E+me)**2 - me**2)
beta(E)     = p(E)/(E+me)
A(E,Z)      = 2*pi*alpha*(Z+1) / beta(E)
F(E,Z)      = A(E,Z) / (1 - exp(-A(E,Z)))
R(E)	    = F(E,1) * p(E) * (E+me) * (E0-E)
N(E,mn)     = K * R(E) * sqrt((E0-E)**2-mn**2)
 
 
 
###############################################################################
 
set multiplot
 
# first multiplot piece -------------------------------------------------------
 
# use full frame for this plot
set origin 0.0,0.0
set size 1.0,1.0
 
# put legend in upper-left corner
set key right top
 
# use thinner lines for both axis
set border lw 0.5
 
# set zero threshold
set zero 1e-2
 
# set x-axis parameters
set xrange [0:19]
set xtics 2
set mxtics 2
set format x "%.0f"
set xlabel "Energy [keV]"
 
# set y-axis parameters
set yrange [0:1]
set ytics 0.2
set mytics 2
set format y "%.0l⋅10^{%L}"
set ylabel "Intensity (count rate, arbitrary units)"
 
# set arrow showing the connection between the second multiplot and this graph
set arrow 1 from graph 0.64,0.10 to graph 0.85,0.03 lw 1.5
 
# plot the graph for three neutrino masses
set samples 500
plot    N(1000*x,1.0) title "m_ν = 1.0 eV" ls 1,\
        N(1000*x,0.3) title "m_ν = 0.3 eV" ls 2,\
        N(1000*x,0.0) title "m_ν = 0.0 eV" ls 3
 
 
# second multiplot piece ------------------------------------------------------
 
# use half size of the diagram and put this plot inside the first one
set origin 0.12,0.12
set size 0.52,0.52
 
# disable legend here
unset key
 
# set x-axis parameters: here we use three decimal places and no label
set xrange [18.598:18.600]
set xtics 0.001
set mxtics 4
set format x "%.3f"
set xlabel ""
 
# set y-axis parameters
set yrange [0:4e-8]
set ytics 1e-8
set mytics 2
set format y "%.0l⋅10^{%L}"
set ylabel ""
 
# disable arrow from the first multiplot
set noarrow 1
 
# create a distance arrow between the end-points for m=0eV and m=1eV
set arrow 11 nohead from 18.599,0.0 to 18.599,1.2e-8 lw 1
set arrow 12 nohead from 18.600,0.0 to 18.600,1.2e-8 lw 1
set arrow 13 from 18.600,1e-8 to 18.599,1e-8 lw 1
set arrow 14 from 18.599,1e-8 to 18.600,1e-8 lw 1
set label "ΔE = 1.0 eV" at 18.5995,1.2e-8 center
 
# replot the graph with much higher sampling
set samples 1000
replot
 
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
set nomultiplot
unset output
 
## END OF FILE

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current14:21, 25 April 2012Thumbnail for version as of 14:21, 25 April 20121,000 × 800 (72 KB)ZykureFinally fixed the decay spectrum (with some help from others - thank you so much!), also the spectrum is now scaled so that its maximum is at a value of 1 on the y-axis.
16:57, 27 June 2011Thumbnail for version as of 16:57, 27 June 20111,000 × 800 (65 KB)Zykurecorrected plot function, changed graph size, some smaller changes to layout
09:59, 18 June 2011Thumbnail for version as of 09:59, 18 June 2011983 × 806 (57 KB)ZykureAdded Fermi factor to intensity function (which leads to a non-zero intensity at E=0); normalized to maximum intensity
12:44, 20 February 2011Thumbnail for version as of 12:44, 20 February 2011978 × 777 (42 KB)Zykurecropped (using Inkscape)
12:22, 20 February 2011Thumbnail for version as of 12:22, 20 February 20111,000 × 1,000 (47 KB)Zykure{{Information |Description ={{en|1=Energy spectrum of tritium beta decay used by the KATRIN neutrino experiment. The neutrino mass is measured by analysing the end-point of the spectrum. In this plot

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