Conveners
Plenary - Undiscovered Decays
- Ryan MacLellan (University of Kentucky)
Baryon number violation has been a subject of experimental and theoretical scrutiny for decades. Although it has not been detected so far, the next generation of large neutrino detectors will seek to improve upon the limits set by past and current experiments and will cover a range of lifetimes predicted by several Grand Unified Theories. In this talk, we will summarize theoretical motivations...
Next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) searches seek the Majorana nature of neutrinos and the existence of a lepton number violating process by covering the 0$\nu\beta\beta$ half-life corresponding to the inverted-ordering neutrino mass scale, assuming the light Majorana neutrino exchange mechanism. The LEGEND experiment, building from the experience of Majorana...
nEXO is a 5 tonne monolithic liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC) planned to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with an estimated half-life sensitivity of >10$^{28}$ years at 90% C.L.. Advancements have been made in terms of detector design, signal modelling and data analysis to support a refined estimate of the sensitivity and discovery potential of the...
CUPID is an upcoming cryogenic bolometric 0$\nu\beta\beta$ experiment with plans to provide sensitivity to the Majorana nature of neutrinos at the scales corresponding to the inverted mass ordering.
Designed based on the expertise, infrastructure, and experience of CUORE, CUPID-0, and CUPID-Mo experiments, CUPID will utilize 1596 Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating crystals amounting to 240 kg of...
