Speaker
Marta Babicz
(University of Zurich (CH))
Description
The LEGEND experiment is designed to detect lepton-number violation and shed light on neutrino masses by hunting for neutrinoless double beta decay. The experiment employs high-purity, enriched in $^{76}$Ge germanium detectors and an active liquid-argon shield to minimize background events. In the first phase, the experiment will use 200 kg of Ge crystals to reach a half-life discovery sensitivity of 10$^{27}$ years. In the second phase, 1000 kg of detectors will be deployed to boost the discovery sensitivity beyond 10$^{28}$ years. Thanks to its exquisite energy resolution and ultra-low background levels, LEGEND will perform a quasi-background-free search for an unambiguous signature at the Q-value of the decay of 2039 keV.
Primary author
Marta Babicz
(University of Zurich (CH))
