Conveners
M1-4 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay I (PPD-DNP-DTP) / Double désintégration beta sans neutrino I (PPD-DPN-DPT)
- Tony Noble (Queen's University)
Thomas Brunner
(McGill University)
13/06/2016, 10:30
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe. Observation of this decay would prove that neutrinos are massive Majorana particles (i.e. they are their own anti-particles), and constitute physics beyond the Standard Model. The first phase experiment, called EXO-200, has re-started operation at the WIPP...
Yang Lan
(TRIUMF/UBC)
13/06/2016, 11:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is searching for the lepton-number violating double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in $^{136}$Xe. If experimentally confirmed, $0\nu\beta\beta$ will require the neutrino to be its own anti-particle, i.e. Majorana particle, and shed light on the neutrino-mass hierarchy. The currently running EXO-200 experiment uses 200 kg of Xenon enriched to more than 80% in...
Dr
Christine Kraus
(Laurentian University)
13/06/2016, 11:15
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The SNO+ experiment is located at SNOLAB and is a multi-purpose scintillator neutrino detector. Currently the detector is being filled with water and prepared for commissioning. The first phase of the experiment will be the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with a 130Te loaded scintillator. Other physics goals include: lower energy solar neutrinos, reactor- and geo-antineutrinos as...
Janet Rumleskie
(Laurentian University)
13/06/2016, 11:45
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
SNO+ is a large, underground neutrino detector, redesigned from the SNO detector. Three separate phases of SNO+ will provide a diverse study of neutrinos, with one phase specifically dedicated to the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Te-130. At a depth of 2 km underground, SNO+ is shielded from many cosmogenics, yet the decay of U-238 within the surrounding rock leads to high (∼3.54...
