Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) at LBNL
The INPA Seminar weekly talks are on Fridays, starting at 12:00 pm, unless informed otherwise. The seminar talk starts with a brief presentation of the weekly scientific news. Typically, the talks conclude by 1:00 pm. The seminars are held in the Sessler Conference Room, located in Bldg. 50A- 5132.
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Speaker: Raquel Castillo Fernandez (University of Texas Arlington)- Title: In the hunt for 0νββ at the NEXT experiment
May 12, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This is an In-Person [HYBRID] Event
LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132
DATE: May 12, 2023
TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM
TITLE: In the hunt for 0νββ at the NEXT experiment
ABSTRACT: In the last decades, oscillation experiments have demonstrated that neutrinos are not massless particles, and the lepton number is not conserved. Thus, revealing the nature of neutrino masses is one of the major goals in particle physics, and the observation of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) has been identified as the most practical way to establish that neutrinos are Majorana particles, that is, fermions equivalent to their antiparticles. However, 0νββ, which would violate the lepton number by two units, has not been observed yet and the best limits to the half-life of this process exceed 10ˆ26 yr. An extraordinary effort by several experimental collaborations is ongoing to achieve this ambitious goal and to explore the possibilities to understand the underlying physics of this process, among them, the NEXT experiment aims at the competitive search for the 0νββ decay in 136Xe using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers (TPCs). In this talk, I will discuss the status of the current prototypes that are under installation, NEXT-100 and NEXT-CRAB, and some of the main challenges and virtues of the 0νββ search.
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INPA guests from campus can now come to the lab early on Fridays. The INPA Common Room (50-5026) is reserved for our guests from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Note that the seminars are now held in 50A-5132 to accommodate a more significant number of attendees.
CPTea Series (also known as INPA Tea Series)
The Physics Division CPTea Series invites you to an In-Person Tea Series 1st Friday of every month at 3:30 pm INPA Conference Room 50-5026.
Everyone is welcome to attend the open forum. Tea and light refreshments will be served.
INPA Common Room (50-5026)
Fridays
3:30 pm
Access to the Lab
For a shuttle pass, please email Erica Hall. The pass is only valid for the day of the seminar.