Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session D10: Tonne Scale Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay R&D I
3:30 PM–5:18 PM,
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 12
Sponsoring
Units:
DNP DPF
Chair: Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Abstract: D10.00004 : Science Overview for the nEXO Experiment *
4:30 PM–4:42 PM
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Abstract
Presenter:
Lisa J. Kaufman
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Author:
Lisa J. Kaufman
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Collaboration:
The nEXO Collaboration
Large ultra-low background liquid xenon (LXe) detectors have recently emerged as a promising technology that can push the neutrinoless double beta decay search to unprecedented sensitivity. An observation of this decay would demonstrate lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of the neutrino. nEXO is a proposed experiment to use a 5 tonne liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC) enriched with the isotope 136Xe for the neutrinoless double beta decay search. The nEXO detector design and science goals to reach sufficient sensitivity to entirely cover the inverted neutrino mass ordering region, i.e. T1/2 ~1028 years, will be discussed.
*This work has been supported, in the US, by DOE's Office of Nuclear Physics within the Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.
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