The NEMO-3 experiment and the SuperNEMO project

✍ Scribed by L. Simard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 369 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2009.12.026

✦ Synopsis

The NEMO experiment investigates the neutrinoless double beta decay. The NEMO-3 detector is collecting data in the Frejus Underground Laboratory.

The goal of the SuperNEMO detector is to reach a sensitivity of the order of 10 26 year on the half-life of the ββ0ν process. The chosen isotopes for the future detector are 82 Se and 150 Nd, because of the reduced background. The collaboration has started a 3-year R& D development on all components: tracking detector, calorimeter, source enrichment and purification and radiopurity measurements.