Neutrinos, the universe, and liquid xenon

by Dr Michael Marino (TU München / Excellence Cluster Universe)

Friday 13 Dec 2013, 16:00 → 16:30 Europe/Berlin

Seminar room K017 (Universe)

Kurzvortrag im Rahmen einer Berufung The neutrino sector may provide keys to understanding the mystery behind the observed matter/anti-matter asymmetry in the universe. An important step towards this is determining whether or not the neutrino and anti-neutrino are the same particle, a so-called ‘Majorana’ particle, which is the goal of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments, including the liquid-xenon-based EXO-200 experiment currently running in New Mexico, USA. The status of EXO-200 and the outlook for the next-generation nEXO experiment will be discussed in context of understanding the composition of the universe.