Large, low-background liquid xenon detectors offer new opportunities for precision measurements of beta decay spectra and searching for two-neutrino and neutrinoless double-beta decays. Observation of the latter would establish lepton-number violation and imply a Majorana component of neutrino mass, with profound implications for physics beyond the Standard Model.
This talk will discuss measurements of beta and double-beta decay with liquid xenon detectors, highlighting advances in spectral measurements, their implications for nuclear physics, and progress in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
This seminar is an open lecture given in the framework of the ESNT workshop on « Probing nuclear structure with beta-decay energy spectra, present and near future state » organized at DPhN by X. Mougeot (CEA, DRT, LIST, LNHB, contact) and B. C. Rasco (ORNL)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University