Events List

DateEvent TypeSpeaker
03/03/2025CCPP Brown BagRoman Scoccimarro [ + ]
03/04/2025Astro SeminarJJ Zanazzi [ + ]
03/05/2025HEP SeminarGiorgio Gratta [ -- ]

Title: nEXO and the quest for neutrino-less double beta decay.
Abstract: Neutrinos, the only neutral elementary fermions, have provided many surprises. Flavor oscillations reveal the non-conservation of the lepton flavor number and demonstrate that neutrino masses are finite; yet they are surprisingly much smaller than those of other fermions (by at least six orders of magnitude!) It is then natural to ask if the mechanism providing the mass to neutrinos is the same that gives masses to the other (charged) elementary fermions and if neutrinos are described by 4-component Dirac wavefunctions or, as is possible for neutral particles, by 2-component Majorana ones. The hypothetical phenomenon of neutrino-less double-beta decay can probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos and the conservation of the total lepton number. It may also help elucidating the origins of mass in the neutrino sector. This is the Frontier of neutrino physics. Following the well-known principle that there is no free lunch in life, interesting half-lives for neutrino-less double-beta decay exceed 10^{25} years (or ~10^{15} times the age of the Universe!) making experiments rather challenging. I will describe nEXO, a 5-tonne, enriched Xenon experiment with a sensitivity reaching beyond 10^{28} years, or >100 times the current state of the art. The nEXO detector derives directly from EXO-200, a very successful, rogue detector built by a collaboration with a heavy SLAC-Stanford participation. (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar)
03/06/2025Astro SeminarJanosz Dewberry [ + ]
03/06/2025Physics Dept ColloquiumGiorgio Gratta [ + ]
03/07/2025Oral DefenseCara Giovanetti [ + ]
03/07/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
03/10/2025CCPP Brown BagJesse Liu [ + ]
03/11/2025Astro SeminarRichard Anantua [ + ]
03/11/2025office hoursMathew Calkins [ + ]
03/12/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
03/12/2025HEP SeminarJunwu Huang [ + ]
03/12/2025office hoursMathew Calkins [ + ]
03/13/2025Physics Dept ColloquiumJacob Barandes [ + ]
03/14/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
03/17/2025CCPP Brown BagAnthony Pullen [ + ]
03/18/2025Informal HEP TalkTony Zhou (host) [ + ]
03/18/2025Astro SeminarCarol Cuesta Lazaro [ + ]
03/19/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
03/19/2025HEP SeminarDaniel Harlow [ + ]
03/21/2025Informal HEP TalkTianli Wang [ + ]
03/21/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
03/24/2025Holiday [ + ]
03/24/2025OtherRhine Samajdar [ + ]
03/25/2025Holiday [ + ]
03/26/2025Holiday [ + ]
03/27/2025Holiday [ + ]
03/28/2025Holiday [ + ]
03/28/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
03/31/2025Informal HEP TalkAurelio Amerio [ + ]
03/31/2025Informal HEP TalkWilliam Pannell [ + ]
04/01/2025Astro SeminarBart Ripperda [ + ]
04/02/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
04/02/2025HEP SeminarCsaba Csaki [ + ]
04/03/2025Physics Dept ColloquiumAlessandra Buonanno [ + ]
04/04/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
04/07/2025Special SeminarDalimil Mazac [ + ]
04/09/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
04/09/2025HEP SeminarLorenzo Ricci [ + ]
04/09/2025Cosmic Happy HourCammie Norton [ + ]
04/10/2025Physics Dept ColloquiumJesse Thaler [ + ]
04/11/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
04/15/2025Astro SeminarJulien Lavalle [ + ]
04/16/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
04/16/2025HEP SeminarMichael Baker [ + ]
04/18/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
04/21/2025CCPP Brown BagMarius Kongsore [ + ]
04/21/2025Informal HEP TalkNat Levine [ + ]
04/22/2025Astro SeminarGabriela Sato-Polito [ + ]
04/23/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
04/23/2025HEP SeminarGiovanni Villadoro [ + ]
04/25/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
04/28/2025CCPP Brown BagMarcus DuPont [ + ]
04/29/2025Astro SeminarRisa Wechsler [ + ]
04/30/2025HEP SeminarDan Green [ + ]
04/30/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
05/02/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
05/06/2025Astro SeminarTetyana Pitik [ + ]
05/07/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]
05/07/2025HEP SeminarHowie Haber [ + ]
05/07/2025HEP SeminarHowie Haber [ + ]
05/09/2025Hep-Th Discussion SessionCalkins [ + ]
05/14/2025HEP Journal Club [ + ]