Date: Wednesday 21st January 2004
Title: Present status of double beta decay and the NEMO experiment
Speaker: Dr Ruben Saakyan (UCL)
Abstract
The motivation, present status and future plans of the search for
neutrinoless double beta decay will be reviewed.
The recent observations of neutrino oscillations have shown that there is
a reasonable hope that neutrinoless double beta decay corresponding to the
neutrino mass scale suggested by oscillation experiments, ~0.05 eV,
actually exists. The sensitivity of the next generation double beta
decay experiments will cover this interesting range in the next 10 years.
This may give us answers on the two fundamental questions: