Speaker
Jürgen Winter
(TUM)
Description
LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) stands for one of the large-scale next generation projects in the field of astro-particle physics. The experiment consists of a 50 kton organic liquid-scintillator detector equipped with 15 000 phototubes placed in an underground facility for shielding from cosmic rays. In this talk, the major objectives that comprise the search for nucleon decay, low energy neutrino astronomy and neutrino particle physics will be presented. The status of the technical design will be outlined In the framework of the European-funded LAGUNA collaboration (Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics).