Conveners
(DNP) W3-4 Nuclei and Neutrinos I | Nucléus et neutrinos I (DNP)
- John Behr (TRIUMF)
The discovery of the lepton-number-violating neutrinoless double-beta decay process will prove that neutrinos are Majorana fermions. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double-beta Decay (LEGEND) project will search for this decay in $^{76}\mbox{Ge}$. In its first phase — LEGEND-200 — $200~\mbox{kg}$ of $^{76}\mbox{Ge}$-enriched high-purity germanium detectors will be...
The light-only liquid xenon (LoLX) experiment is a small-scale liquid xenon (LXe) detector with cutting-edge photo-detection technology. LoLX is designed to characterize the performance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), and to study light emission, transport, and detection in LXe to inform future LXe rare-decay detectors. LoLX consists of 96 Hamamatsu VUV4 SiPMs arranged in a cylindrical...
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a proposed nuclear transition involving the emission of two electrons with no neutrinos. In $^{136}$Xe, observing the $^{136}$Ba daughter directly is a positive detection of double beta decay. This is barium tagging, and it would significantly enhance the signal to background ratio in experiments using a liquid xenon time projection chamber. However,...
Studies of short-lived radioactive isotopes, at the limits of nuclear binding (the “drip lines”), are crucial for understanding how the nuclear force evolves toward the extremes. In neutron-deficient nuclei, measurements of β-delayed proton emission can be used to constrain proton-capture reaction pathways in nucleosynthesis and test isospin symmetry. In this talk, I will present my analysis...
