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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Searching for double beta decay with the Enriched Xenon Observ
 atory\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Carter Hall\, Univ
 ersity of Maryland
DESCRIPTION:An observation of neutrinoless double beta decay would hav
 e profound consequences for our understanding of the lepton sector of 
 the standard model. Double beta decay is only allowed if the neutrino 
 and anti-neutrino are identical\, which is a basic prediction of many 
 extensions of the standard model\, including many grand unified theori
 es. Secondly\, double beta decay could shed light on the scale of the 
 neutrino mass spectrum. The EXO collaboration is developing sensitive 
 searches for the double beta decay of Xenon-136. Our first experiment\
 , EXO-200\, is rapidly being constructed\, and will be by far the larg
 est double beta decay experiment ever attempted. We are also pursuing 
 R&D to realize a system to tag the daughter barium nucleus of the deca
 y using the techniques of single-ion spectroscopy. This would eliminat
 e all conventional backgrounds\, resulting in an ideal experiment.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1083
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