Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in 136Xe

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的还是狄拉克性质的。这个问题对于我们在最小尺度上理解物质具有根本性的重要性，而这个问题的答案很可能会揭示标准模型以外的物理学。该小组的调查将在EXO-200双贝塔衰变实验的背景下进行，这是世界上对Majorana中微子质量最敏感的搜索。该奖项将通过数据采集和分析阶段为他们参与EXO-200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，主要是通过培训研究生实验科学的方法，并展示在理论和应用科学的其他领域有应用的实验技术和技术。

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.