28–31 Jul 2025
Princeton
US/Eastern timezone

The LEGEND Experiment: How to run an entire experiment in Julia

28 Jul 2025, 11:15
30m
Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall (Princeton)

Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall

Princeton

Talk 25' Talks

Speakers

Florian Henkes (Tecnical University of Munich) Oliver Schulz (Max Planck Society (DE))

Description

The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless ββ Decay (LEGEND) experimental program is dedicated to the search for the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of $^{76}Ge$ with isotopically enriched high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors and a discovery sensitivity beyond a half-life of $10^{28}$ years. The project's first phase, LEGEND-200, has stably accumulated physics data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The first unblinding revealed a new best global limit of $T^{1/2}_{0\nu} > 1.9\cdot 10^{26}$ yr (90% confidence level). We present an update on our ongoing experiment, which features two distinct software stacks and independent analysis teams. This session will focus on the advancements of the JuLeAna ($\bf{Ju}$lia $\bf{LE}$GEND $\bf{Ana}$lysis) software stack and its application to the current LEGEND data. Key subjects will include performance evaluation, data management, the GPU-accelerated Digital Signal Processing (DSP) framework, calibration and fitting routines, event reconstruction, as well as IO performance. Additionally, we will provide a brief demonstration highlighting the enhancements made to the data flow within our customized SLURM-based parallel processing environment.

This work is supported by the U.S. DOE, and the NSF, the LANL, ORNL and LBNL LDRD programs; the European ERC and Horizon programs; the German DFG, BMBF, and MPG; the Italian INFN; the Polish NCN and MNiSW; the Czech MEYS; the Slovak RDA; the Swiss SNF; the UK STFC; the Canadian NSERC and CFI; the LNGS and SURF facilities.

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