Weak Interaction Discussion Group (WIDG) talk: Shilo Xia, Yale University, “Hunting for neutrinoless double beta decay and other rare-events with the EXO-200 detector”

Name: Weak Interaction Discussion Group (WIDG) talk: Shilo Xia, Yale University, “Hunting for neutrinoless double beta decay and other rare-events with the EXO-200 detector”
Start: 2018-02-20T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-02-20T13:00:00-05:00
Location: WL 216

Tuesday Feb 20, 2018, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM US/Eastern

WL 216

Description

Many experiments are looking for neutrinoless double beta decay (0υββ), a phenomenon that if discovered, would demonstrate the Majorana nature of neutrinos. I am going to talk about the motivation behind those searches, and the most recent result from EXO-200, a 200-kg detector aiming to detect 0υββ decay of the isotope 136 Xe, installed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The EXO-200 experiment also has capacity for other rare-event searches like nucleon decay, whose result will be presented as well. The experience from EXO-200 is helping pave the way for a ton-scale next-generation experiment nEXO, with the goal of probing new physics and the mass of the neutrino.

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Weak Interaction Discussion Group (WIDG) talk: Shilo Xia, Yale University, “Hunting for neutrinoless double beta decay and other rare-events with the EXO-200 detector”

WL 216