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(DNP) R1-5 Nuclei and Neutrinos II | Noyaux et neutrinos II (DPN)
- Liliana Caballero Suarez
Despite tremendous progress, key questions remain in the field of neutrino physics. Are neutrinos Dirac or Majorana fermions? What is their absolute mass scale and mass ordering? Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) searches are sensitive probes aiming to answer these questions. $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiments are continuously striving to further reduce background levels in order to...
nEXO is a proposed experiment that aims to detect neutrinoless double beta decay (0vbb), a Standard Model (SM) forbidden, rare nuclear process that, if observed, would have profound implications for fundamental physics. Such decay would be the first experimental evidence of the Majorana nature of neutrinos (i.e., neutrinos would be their own antiparticles), provide insights into the neutrino...
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are the photo-detection technology of choice for future noble-liquid scintillator rare-event search experiments, both in neutrino-less double beta decay and dark matter. The high radio-purity and exceptional gain of SiPMs along with a high VUV detection efficiency make them ideal for these applications. The Light only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) experiment is a...
Using the EMPIRE 3.2 code, an optimal model has been adapted to describe the proton interaction on 232Th for accelerator-based production of 225Ra and 225Ac which are important alpha emitting medical radioisotopes with viable production in accelerators. A hybrid nuclear level density which combines the nuclear level densities in Empire for the production of 225Ra, and 225Ac has been...
