Conveners
Experiment
- Hiro Ejiri (RCNP Osaka University)
EXO-200 is a current generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay of 136Xe. It was the first of only a few detectors of this scale to run and operated between 2010 and 2018 at the underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southern New Mexico, USA. EXO-200 used 200 kg of 80%-enriched liquid xenon in a single phase, cylindrical time projection chamber (TPC)...
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for 0νββ decay that has been able to reach the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at the LNGS in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of...
Two-neutrino double beta (2$\nu\beta\beta$) decays are amongst the rarest nuclear processes ever observed. Precision studies of the electron sum energies require ultra-low background and an excellent understanding of the experiment’s response. Both are key features of the Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment, which main goal was to search for neutrino-less double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$)...
