2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Session

M1-6 Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay I (PPD-DNP) / Double désintégration beta sans neutrino I (PPD-DPN)

M1-6

15 Jun 2015, 13:45

University of Alberta

Conveners

M1-6 Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay I (PPD-DNP) / Double désintégration beta sans neutrino I (PPD-DPN)

• Rudiger Picker (TRIUMF)

503. Neutrino in the Standard Model and beyond

Prof. Samoil Bilenky (JINR (Dubna))

15/06/2015, 13:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

The Standard Model teaches us that in the framework of such general principles as local gauge symmetry, unication of weak and electromag- netic interactions and Brout-Englert-Higgs spontaneous breaking of the elec- troweak symmetry nature chooses the simplest possibilities. Two-component left-handed massless neutrino elds play crucial role in the determination of the charged current...

647. Status of the SNO+ Experiment

Prof. Aksel Hallin (University of Alberta)

15/06/2015, 14:15

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité

The SNO+ experiment, at the SNOLAB underground laboratory, consists of 780 Mg of linear alkylbenzene scintillator contained in the 12 m diameter SNO acrylic sphere and and observed by the SNO photomultiplier tubes. SNO+ will be loaded with tellurium, at approximately the 0.3% level to enable a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay. This talk will detail the experiment, the...

693. Extraction of optical parameters in SNO+ with an in-situ optical calibration system

Dr Kalpana Singh Singh (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)

15/06/2015, 14:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)

SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino physics experiment investigating neutrinoless double beta decay and neutrino oscillations. The SNO+ detector consists of a 12m diameter acrylic vessel (AV), surrounded by ultra-pure water and approximately 9500 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) which are positioned on a stainless steel PMT support structure (PSUP). The acrylic vessel will be filled with liquid...

794. Double-beta decay half-life of 96Zr – nuclear physics meets geochemistry

Adam Mayer (University of Calgary)

15/06/2015, 15:00

Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)

Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)

Double-beta (\beta\beta) decay measurements are a class of nuclear studies with the objective of detecting the neutrinoless (0\nu) decay variants. Detection of a 0\nu\beta\beta decay would prove the neutrino to be massive and to be its own anti-particle (i.e., a Majorana particle). A key parameter in the detection of the 0\nu\beta\beta decay is the energy, or Q-value, of the decay. ^{96}Zr...