Overview and Status of the EXO-200 Double Beta Decay Experiment

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Abstract

The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 136Xe.~ A positive result would be the first observation of a lepton-number violating process and would give information about the neutrino mass. The first EXO experiment, EXO-200, is currently being installed and commissioned at the WIPP facility in Carlsbad, NM.~ EXO-200 will use a TPC with 200 kg of liquid xenon, isotopically enriched to 80{\%} in 136Xe, to achieve sensitivity to a Majorana neutrino mass of 130-190 meV. This talk will present an overview of EXO-200 and the status of the project.

Authors

  • Simon Slutsky

    University of Maryland