Robertson, R. G. HamishBodine, Laura Irene2015-09-292015-09-292015-09-292015Bodine_washington_0250E_15108.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/34127Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015An understanding of the molecular final state distribution is crucial to extracting a neutrino mass from molecular tritium-based experiments including the upcoming Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Mass Experiment. This dissertation studies molecular systematics for the upcoming neutrino mass measurements and discusses the measurement of molecular dissociation as a test of final state distribution calculations.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.beta decay; KATRIN; neutrino mass; tritiumPhysicsphysicsThesis