Speaker
Leslie Rogers
(argonne national laboratory)
Description
Finding evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay would reveal the Majorana nature of the neutrino and give insight into the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, the smallness of neutrino mass, and the symmetry structure of the Standard Model. The NEXT collaboration is developing a sequence of high pressure xenon gas time projection chambers with the aim of creating a ton-scale, very low background neutrinoless double beta decay search. In this talk, we will highlight the strengths of this program, including recent results from the NEXT-White demonstrator, status of NEXT-100, and prospects for ton-scale and beyond R&D and experiments.
Primary author
Leslie Rogers
(argonne national laboratory)
