Conveners
T1-5 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay II (PPD-DNP-DTP) / Double désintégration beta sans neutrino II (PPD-DPN-DPT)
- Thomas Brunner (McGill University)
Richard Hill
(TRIUMF, Perimeter Institute and University of Chicago)
14/06/2016, 08:30
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Next generation experiments are poised to help answer fundamental questions about neutrinos and dark matter, but rely on a quantitative understanding of perturbative and nonperturbative QCD. I briefly review the status of experimental searches and theoretical calculations in searchers for lepton number and CP violation in the neutrino sector, and for WIMP dark matter direct detection.
Richard Ford
(SNOLAB)
14/06/2016, 09:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
A large capacity purification plant and fluid handling system has been constructed for the SNO+ neutrino and double-beta decay experiment, located 6800 feet underground at SNOLAB, Canada. SNO+ is a refurbishment of the original SNO detector to fill the acrylic vessel with liquid scintillator based on Linear Alkylbenzene (LAB) and 2 g/L PPO, and also has a phase to load natural tellurium into...
Erica Caden
(Laurentian University)
14/06/2016, 09:15
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
SNO+ is a multipurpose neutrino experiment at SNOLAB. Our main physics goal is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in Tellurium-130. Much work had been done to transform a heavy water detector into a scintillator detector. We are currently commissioning the experiment with water and I will show some early data.
Elspeth Cudmore
(Carleton University)
14/06/2016, 09:30
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
For the current generation of experiment on particle astrophysics low backgrounds are very important, which comes with the need for very sensitive measurement tools. A new generation of lucas cells has been produced and this presentation describes the characterization and first steps to simulating the cells performed in the summer 2015. This presentation won first prize at the SNOLAB...
Prof.
Razvan Gornea
(Carleton University)
14/06/2016, 09:45
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Neutrino oscillation experiments have shown that neutrinos have finite masses. The study of neutrino-less double beta decay may bring insight on the neutrino mass generation and determine the effective neutrino mass. The next generation neutrino-less double beta decay experiments, with a very large active mass and ultra low background, like the proposed nEXO, will have a sensitivity to the...
