Solving the neutrino mass puzzle: Hunting for Weak decays without neutrinos

解决中微子质量难题：寻找没有中微子的弱衰变

• 批准号: 1000232882-2019
• 负责人: Brunner, Thomas
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=695475
• 关键词: Solving; neutrino; mass; puzzle; Hunting

Professor Brunner investigates the nature of neutrinos, specifically, he focuses on answering the question if neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are in fact identical particles. Neutrinos are the most abundant known massive particles in the universe, yet most of their fundamental properties such as their mass remain uncharted. Brunner is developing ultra-sensitive low-background detection techniques with the nEXO collaboration to investigate the nature of neutrinos by studying a hypothetical radioactive decay with a halflife up to 10^28 years, more than 10^18 times the age of the universe. Brunner and his team must go deep underground with their nEXO detector to investigate the nature of neutrinos.

布伦纳教授研究了中微子的性质，特别是他专注于回答中微子和反中微子是否实际上是相同的粒子的问题。中微子是宇宙中已知的最丰富的大质量粒子，但它们的大多数基本性质，如它们的质量，仍然未知。布伦纳正在与Nexo合作开发超灵敏的低本底探测技术，通过研究一种假设的放射性衰变来研究中微子的性质，半衰期长达10^28年，超过宇宙年龄的10^18倍。布伦纳和他的团队必须带着他们的Nexo探测器深入地下，以调查中微子的性质。