Developing the SuperNEMO 2beta source

par Alberto Remoto (LAPP)

vendredi 21 févr. 2014, 14:00 → 14:30 Europe/Paris

Auditorium M. Vivargent (LAPP)

The Dirac or Majorana nature of neutrinos could be investigated searching for processes violating the lepton number, like the neutrino-less double beta decay. The broad implications the discovery of such process will have on particle physics has triggered a rich experimental scenario. SuperNEMO is a new generation experiment based on the tracko-calo technique, already adopted with success by NEMO3. The key feature of SuperNEMO is its uniques capability to fully reconstruct the kinematics of the events, which allows to reduce the backgrounds and to discriminate among different mechanism beyond the neutrino-less double beta decay. After a brief overview of the double beta decay physics and the current experimental scenario, this brief seminar will focus on the R&D effort towards a high radio-purity 82Se foil source for the SuperNEMO demonstrator module.

Slides LAPP_210207_K9.pdf