SAIFR:3252

Search for new physics with rare events at SNOLAB

(2022). Search for new physics with rare events at SNOLAB. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research. https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/3252

Search for new physics with rare events at SNOLAB. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Dec. 15, 2022, https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/3252 

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            doi = {},
            url = {https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/3252},
            author = {},
            keywords = {ICTP-SAIFR, IFT, UNESP},
            language = {en},
            title = {Search for new physics with rare events at SNOLAB},
            publisher = { ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research},
            year = {2022},
            month = {dec},
            note = {SAIFR:3252 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/3252}}
          }
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Talk numberSAIFR:3252
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Abstract

SNOLAB is the deepest cleanest lab in the world. Its location at 2 km underground in Sudbury, Canada, allows searches for hypothetical rare events that would provide a window beyond our Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. This talk will take you on a journey into some of the on-going activities in the lab, with emphasis on searches using xenon. The primary focus of our group is neutrinoless double beta decay (0vbb) in Xe-136. If observed, this process would show for the first time violation of the lepton number conservation, a global symmetry of the SM. SNOLAB’s Cryopit is the intended home for nEXO, a liquid xenon time-project chamber with a sensitivity of the order of 10^28 yr to 0vbb half-life. We will describe our contributions to this experiment that includes machine learning for data analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. This talk also covers our efforts to build a successor for this tonne-scale detector, the Xe-Still Project, that is investigating cryogenic distillation as an alternative for xenon enrichment.