IFIC\'s Seminar Lunes, 10 de Septiembre de 2012 a las 12:30 PM
Resumen
Neutrino oscillation experiments have shown that at least one neutrino has a mass greater than 50 meV. This fact has led to a resurgence of interest in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. If this rare nuclear decay process exists it would demonstrate that Lepton number conservation is violated, that neutrinos are their own anti-particles and the decay rate would give an indication of the neutrino mass. This presentation will summarize the research field of double beta decay followed by a description of the Majorana Demonstrator project: an experiment being built to search for the process.
