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SUMMARY:A Look at a few Leading Present and Future Neutrino-less Double-Be
 ta Decay Experiments
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Frank T. Avignone III (University of South Carolina)
 \n\nThe nature of the neutrino is one of the most important open questions
  in particle physics today. Neutrino-less double-beta decay experiments ar
 e the only practical way to determine if neutrinos are Majorana particles\
 , i.e.\, their own anti-particles. This decay would violate lepton number 
 conservation\, while a measurement of the half-life of the decay\, combine
 d with neutrino oscillation data\, would fix the absolute mass-scale of el
 ectron neutrinos. This colloquium will concentrate on the history and dev
 elopment of two of the leading experiments that will operate in the Labora
 tori Nazionale del Gran Sasso\, in Assergi\, Italy\, namely CUPID (CUORE w
 ith Particle Identification)\, CUPID 1-Tonne\, LEGEND-200\, and LEGEND-100
 0. We will discuss some of the history that led to the development of thes
 e projects. One interesting connection to cosmology is the fact that today
 ’s universe is dominated by particles\, while at the time of the Big Ban
 g\, particles and anti-particles should have been created equally\, perhap
 s with a tiny asymmetry of particle over anti-particle. A popular theoreti
 cal explanation to explain that asymmetry\, called Leptogenesis\, requires
  that there are Majorana neutrinos in the early universe.ZOOM: http://cfp.
 ciemat.es/zoomae/eventos\n\nhttps://agenda.ciemat.es/event/5120/
URL:https://agenda.ciemat.es/event/5120/
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