Speaker
Soud Al Kharusi
Description
The nEXO experiment is a proposed next-generation liquid xenon detector to search for neutrino-less double beta decay (0νββ) of 136Xe. The experiment will use a 5-tonne liquid xenon monolithic single-phase time projection chamber enriched to 90% 136Xe. Ionization electrons and scintillation photons from energy deposits in the Xe will be recorded by a segmented anode place and a large SiPM array. This talk will present recent progress in the detector design, an improved modelling of signal readout and the development of a deep neural network based data analysis architecture to improve signal/background separation. These developments result in a 90% CL 0νββ halflife sensitivity of $1.35\times10^{28}$ yrs in 10 years of data taking.
| Keyword-1 | Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
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| Keyword-2 | Xenon |
Primary author
Thomas Brunner
(McGill University)
