2019 Kellogg Seminars | Kellogg Radiation Laboratory

2019 Kellogg Seminars

Date	Speaker
Monday, February 11 4:00 p.m. 469 Lauritsen	Graham Giovanetti, Princeton, "Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with underground detectors"
Tuesday, Feburary 26 4:00 p.m. 469 Lauritsen	Andy Tan, University of Maryland "Status and prospects of the PandaX Experiment"
Friday, May 3 10:00 a.m. 469 Lauritsen	Yury Kolomensky, UC Berkeley "To the Heart of Neutrinos with CUORE and CUPID" Abstract: The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first ton-scale bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers. After the completion of the detector construction in August 2016, CUORE was successfully cooled down to a base temperature below 8 mK by the beginning of 2017. The first physics data were taken in May-September 2017, resulting in the most stringent limits to date on the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Te-130. I will describe the performance of the CUORE detector systems, discuss the first physics results from CUORE, and introduce the concept for a next-generation detector, CUPID, that would probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos down to the mass scale of 10 meV.