FPD Seminar

Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with KamLAND-Zen

by Brian Fujikawa (LBNL)

America/Los_Angeles
48/2-224 - Madrone (SLAC)

48/2-224 - Madrone

SLAC

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Description

KamLAND is a one-kiloton liquid scintillator-based underground neutrino detector that has been operating since 2002. KamLAND is one of the recipients of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for its 2002 investigation of neutrino oscillations. KamLAND-Zen 800 is the current phase of KamLAND, and it is an experiment to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe-136. In this talk, I will describe the KamLAND experiment and present the new results from KamLAND-Zen 800. I will conclude by describing the plans and future objectives of KamLAND and KamLAND-Zen.

Organised by

Alden Fan / Christina Ignarra / Eric Miller