Name: Anna Sejersen Riis
 Institution: Department of Physics and Astronomy
 Title: Detecting sterile neutrinos with KATRIN like experiments
 Key Words: sterile neutrinos KATRIN direct detection
 Abstract: A sterile neutrino with mass in the eV range, mixing with the electron neutrino, is allowed and possibly even preferred by cosmology and oscillation experiments. If such eV-mass neutrinos exist they provide a much better target for direct detection in beta decay experiments than the active neutrinos which are expected to have sub-eV masses. Their relatively high mass would allow for an easy separation from the primary decay signal in experiments like KATRIN.