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<div>Please join us today at 3:30 PM in the Smith Seminar Room to hear from our invited speaker, Professor Ben Jones of the University of Texas Arlington for the High Energy seminar! He will be speaking to us about his work in ultra-low background searches
for neutrino-less double beta decay. He will also be available immediately afterwards to discuss with and answer questions for interested students and post-docs. See you there!</div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Monday, November 13, 2017</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">3:30 PM</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Smith Seminar Room, Room 1080, Physics Research Building</div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Speaker: Ben Jones</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Title: “It's 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, but it might just work…” -</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Reaching the ultra-low background regime in neutrinoless double beta decay</div>
<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Abstract: The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is the only known and viable method to establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Next generation experiments are aiming for sensitivity to decay rates smaller than
10^-27 per year, which requires detectors with tons of material and background rates of less than 1 count per ton per year in the signal ROI. This is a formidable technological challenge without a known solution. I will discuss some of the leading contenders,
and then focus on a technology that shows particular promise: the High Pressure Xenon Gas TPC (HPGXe-TPC). In HPGXe-TPCs such as the US/Spanish led NEXT experiment, event topology and precise energy resolution provide strong background rejection capabilities.
I will also present new results from R&D on "barium tagging”: daughter ion identification in the final state with single molecule fluorescent imaging. Tagging the daughter isotope in bulk xenon may enable the first zero-background neutrinoless double beta
decay search at the ton-scale.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-Brian Francis, PRB 3039</div>
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