Conference proceeding
The Enriched Xenon Observatory
INTERSECTIONS OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, v 1182(1), pp 92-95
01 Jan 2009
Abstract
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136. The EXO Collaboration is actively pursuing both liquid-phase and gas-phase Xe detector technologies with scalability to the ton-scale. The search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 is especially attractive because of the possibility of tagging the resulting Ba daughter ion, eliminating all sources of background other than the two neutrino decay mode. EXO-200, the first phase of the project, is a liquid Xe time projection chamber with 200 kg of Xe enriched to 80% in Xe-136. EXO-200, which does not include Ba-tagging, will begin taking data in 2009, with two-year sensitivity to the half-life for neutrinoless double beta decay of 6.4 x 10(25) years. This corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass of 0.13 to 0.19 eV.
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- Title
- The Enriched Xenon Observatory
- Creators
- M. J. Dolinski - Stanford UniversityEXO Collaboration
- Contributors
- M L Marshak (Editor)
- Publication Details
- INTERSECTIONS OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, v 1182(1), pp 92-95
- Series
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000281460200021
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-74549179667
- Other Identifier
- 991019186773804721
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