Speaker
Mr
Steven Calvez
(Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire)
Description
The SuperNEMO experiment is looking for the neutrinoless double beta decay which, if
observed, would prove the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Under the assumption neutrinos
are indeed identical to their antiparticles, the detector could not only constrain the effective
neutrino mass but also identify precisely the mechanism responsible for the neutrinoless
double beta decay among the several hypothesized today (light Majorana neutrino exchange,
Right-Handed Currents,etc...). The unique detector design combines tracking and calorimetry
techniques allowing a full event topology reconstruction and thus, a powerful background
identification and rejection. It also gives access to other rare processes such as the double
beta decay to the excited states of the daughter nucleus.
Author
Mr
Steven Calvez
(Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire)
