Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

Session

Plenary - Undiscovered Decays

May 12, 2022, 8:15 AM

Electrical Engineering & Physics (South Dakota Mines)

Conveners

Plenary - Undiscovered Decays

• Ryan MacLellan (University of Kentucky)

62. Status of Proton Decay Searches

Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)

5/12/22, 8:15 AM

Proton Decay

Oral

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...

78. Status of the LEGEND experiment

Mariano Lopez Castano (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

5/12/22, 8:45 AM

Double Beta Decay

Oral

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...

82. Search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ beyond 10$^{28}$ years half-life sensitivity with nEXO

Ako Jamil (Yale University)

5/12/22, 9:10 AM

Double Beta Decay

Oral

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...

93. Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with CUPID

Dr Pranava Surukuchi (Yale University)

5/12/22, 9:35 AM

Double Beta Decay

Oral

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...