Conveners
TS4-1 Neutrino-related questions in nuclear and astro-particle physics (PPD Neutrino Physics and Beyond Symposium) / Questions liées aux neutrinos en physique nucléaire et d'astro-particules (Symposium PPD sur la physique des neutrinos et au delà)
- David McKeen (TRIUMF)
As science probes ever more extreme facets of the universe, the role of nuclear theory in confronting fundamental questions in nature continues to deepen. Long considered a phenomenological field, breakthroughs in our understanding of nuclear and electroweak forces in nuclei are rapidly transforming modern nuclear theory into a true first-principles, or ab initio, discipline.
In particular...
The discovery of the lepton-number-violating neutrinoless double-beta decay process will prove that neutrinos are Majorana fermions. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double-beta Decay (LEGEND) project will search for this decay in $^{76}$Ge. In its first phase — LEGEND-200 — 200~kg of $^{76}$Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors will be deployed in a...
