Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session W2: Notes from Underground |
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Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF Chair: George Fuller, University of California, San Diego Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B |
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
W2.00001: Status and Prospects for the EXO experiment Invited Speaker: EXO (Enriched Xenon Observatory) is a program to ultimately build a 10-ton class neutrino-less double-beta decay experiment using 136-Xe. EXO will perform a background-free experiment by combining the energy and position of the decay electrons with the identification of the final state nucleus (Ba) by means of high resolution atomic spectroscopy. I will describe the state of the R\&D on the spectroscopic tagging of single Ba atoms extracted from a volume of liquid xenon and discuss the construction of the EXO-200 detector. EXO-200 will be the largest double-beta decay experiment ever built, employing 200 kg of xenon enriched to 80\% in the isotope 136. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
W2.00002: SuprkamioKande Invited Speaker: |
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
W2.00003: AMANDA \& IceCube: Status and Prospects Invited Speaker: With 677 optical sensors buried in South Pole ice at depths between 1.5 and 2 kilometers, AMANDA-II is currently the largest high-energy neutrino telescope in operation. Searches for extraterrestrial neutrino sources in data collected with this array since its completion in 2000 have so far yielded null results. Construction of the much larger IceCube array began in early 2005 and is scheduled to continue for another four years until a volume of 1 km3 is instrumented with $\sim$4,500 sensors. In this talk I will summarize some of the AMANDA-II results and I will describe the performance of the first elements of the technologically superior IceCube array. [Preview Abstract] |
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