Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in 136Xe

寻找 136Xe 中的无中微子双贝塔衰变

• 批准号: 1307362
• 负责人: Carter Hall
• 金额: $ 29.06万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1307362&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Search; Neutrinoless; Double; Beta; Decay

This award will enable this group to continue to study whether the mass of the neutrino is of a Majorana or Dirac nature. This question is of fundamental importance for our understanding of matter at the smallest scales, and the answer is likely to shed light on physics beyond the standard model. The group's investigations will take place within the context of the EXO-200 double beta decay experiment, the world's most sensitive search for Majorana neutrino masses. The award will provide support for their involvement in EXO-200 through its data taking and analysis phases.This support will create additional broader impacts outside the field of neutrino physics, primarily by training a graduate student in the methods of experimental science, and by demonstrating experimental techniques and technologies which have applications in other areas of pure and applied science.

这个奖项将使这个小组能够继续研究中微子的质量是马约拉纳性质还是狄拉克性质。这个问题对于我们在最小尺度上理解物质是至关重要的，它的答案很可能会照亮标准模型之外的物理学。该小组的调查将在EXO-200双β衰变实验的背景下进行，这是世界上对马约拉纳中微子质量最敏感的搜索。该奖项将通过EXO-200的数据采集和分析阶段为他们的参与提供支持。这种支持将在中微子物理领域之外产生更广泛的影响，主要是通过训练研究生实验科学的方法，以及通过展示在其他纯科学和应用科学领域有应用的实验技术和技术。