Continuing the Operation of EXO-200 at WIPP
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Leland Stanford Junior University
This grant supported, in part, the operations of the EXO-200 double beta decay experiment at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for the period May 1, 2013 to Sept 30, 2015. In this period EXO-200 completed its first phase of data taking, although its operation was disrupted in Feb 2014 by the accidents at WIPP (unrelated to the experiment). The primary goal of the experiment is to search for the very rate (and to date not observed) neutrino-less double beta decay. Such decay, if observed, would shed the light of the quantum-mechanical structure of neutrinos, and the origins of elementary particle masses. Another goal of the detector is to serve as prototype of a larger neutrino-less double beta decay experiment, currently being considered by DOE-OS.
- Research Organization:
- Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0009818
- OSTI ID:
- 1239129
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-Stanford-Gratta--EXO-200
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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