2019 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2019

Session

M1-8 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Strangeness (DNP) | Double désintégration bêta sans neutrino et étrangeté (DPN)

M1-8

3 Jun 2019, 10:45

Simon Fraser University

Conveners

M1-8 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Strangeness (DNP) | Double désintégration bêta sans neutrino et étrangeté (DPN)

• Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)

2810. Recent progress on Strangeness Nuclear Physics at J-PARC

Prof. Tomofumi Nagae (Kyoto University)

03/06/2019, 10:45

Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

The K$^-$ beam intensity at the hadron experimental hall in J-PARC is steadily increasing for conducting strangeness nuclear physics program. The present production target in the hadron hall can accept up to ~50 kW proton beam from the 30-GeV main ring. In the summer of 2019, a new production target which can operate more than 80 kW is going to be installed, and the beam intensity will be...

2668. Status of the SNO+ experiment

Aleksandra Bialek (SNOLAB)

03/06/2019, 11:15

Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

The SNO+ experiment is located in SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada), 2 kilometers underground in the Creighton mine. It is a large scale, low-background, neutrino detector whose main purpose is to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. The outcome of the discovery would be a measurement of the half-life for such a process, which is inversely proportional to the effective neutrino mass squared. With...

2520. nEXO's Outer Detector: Status and Prospects

Mr Soud Al Kharusi (Graduate Student)

03/06/2019, 11:45

Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

The nEXO experiment is a proposed neutrino-less double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) search in the isotope Xe-136. Anticipated to be located at SNOLAB, nEXO aims to observe the Majorana nature of neutrinos with a sensitivity that will probe the entire inverted mass hierarchy parameter space. nEXO’s stringent low-background requirements necessitate a water shield in order to reduce...

2735. A linear quadrupole ion trap for barium tagging in nEXO

Yang Lan (TRIUMF)

03/06/2019, 12:00

Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle)

Barium tagging is a future upgrade for nEXO (next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory), a planned experiment that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in ¹³⁶Xe. If detected, 0νββ would confirm that neutrinos are their own anti-particles and reveal their absolute masses. Due to the long half-life (>10²⁶ years) of 0νββ, a low background is critical to achieve the necessary...