29 May 2018 to 3 June 2018
Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center
US/Pacific timezone

Status of the nEXO Experiment

31 May 2018, 14:00
20m
East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms

Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center

44600 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells, CA 92210, USA

Speaker

Shuoxing Wu (Stanford University)

Description

The planned next generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) experiment is aiming to search for the neutrino-less double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay from $^{136}$Xe. nEXO has a sensitivity in the order of $10^{28}$ years on the half-life (T$_{1/2}$) of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay from $^{136}$Xe after 10 years’ running, entirely covering the inverted mass hierarchy region. The nEXO detector is a time projection chamber (TPC). It has a cylindrical shape with a diameter of $\sim$1.3 m and a drift length of $\sim$1.2 m containing 5 tonnes of liquid xenon enriched to 90% ($^{136}$Xe). nEXO will use modular metal pads deposited on a quartz substrate to readout the ionisation signal and provide the spatial information of the event. nEXO will be implemented with $\sim$4 m$^2$ silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) to collect the scintillation light in addition to the charge signal. Combining both charge and light signals, nEXO aims to have an energy resolution of 1% at the Q-value of the double beta decay from $^{136}$Xe. In this talk, both the physics potential of nEXO and various R&D outcomes will be presented.
E-mail [email protected]
Collaboration name nEXO

Primary author

Shuoxing Wu (Stanford University)

Presentation materials