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We discuss a small-scale experiment, called $\nu$-cleus, for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by probing nuclear-recoil energies down to the 10 eV-regime. The detector consists of low-threshold CaWO$_4$ and…

This article reviews the application of high pressure gas xenon (HPXe) time projection chambers to neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. First, the fundamentals of the technology and the historical development of the field are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-07 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , F. Monrabal , P. Ferrario

SNO+ will search for neutrinoless double beta decay by loading 780 tonnes of linear alkylbenzene liquid scintillator with O(tonne) of neodymium. Using natural Nd at 0.1% loading will provide 43.7 kg of 150Nd given its 5.6% abundance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Hartnell

The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses fully depleted high-resistivity CCDs (charge coupled devices) with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-25 Irina Nasteva

Scintillator detectors can be used in experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay. A wide variety of double beta decay candidate isotopes can be made into scintillators or can be loaded into scintillators. Experimental programs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-12-18 Mark C. Chen

Results from a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay $0\nu\beta\beta$ of $^{136}$Xe are presented using the first year of data taken with the upgraded EXO-200 detector. Relative to previous searches by EXO-200, the energy resolution of…

The SuperNEMO experiment is being designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay to test if neutrinos are Majorana particles. The experimental technique follows that of the currently running NEMO-3 experiment, which successfully…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Irina Nasteva

We propose a novel charge sensing concept for high-pressure Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay (NLDBD) with ton-scale isotope mass and beyond. A meter-sized plane, tiled with an array of CMOS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-20 Yuan Mei , Xiangming Sun , Nu Xu

We discuss in detail the physics reach of an experimental set-up where electron neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) produced in a beta-beam facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) are sent, over a distance of L~1300km, to the Deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Patrick Huber

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton-number violating process predicted by many extensions of the standard model. It is actively searched for in several candidate isotopes within many experimental projects. The status of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-27 Luciano Pandola

The Laboratorio Subterra neo de Canfranc (LSC) is the national hub for low radioactivity techniques and the associated scientific and technological applications. The concentration of the airborne radon is a major component of the…

Charged currents are probed in low-energy precision $\beta$-decay experiments and at high-energy colliders, both of which aim to measure or constrain signals of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. In light of future $\beta$-decay and LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-07 Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Tom Tong

The possibility of measuring neutral-current coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS) at the TEXONO experiment has opened high expectations towards probing exotic neutrino properties. Focusing on low threshold Germanium-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-06 T. S. Kosmas , O. G. Miranda , D. K. Papoulias , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ Decay (LEGEND) is a future ton-scale experimental program that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in the isotope $^{76}$Ge with an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-20 Frank Edzards , Susanne Mertens , Michael Willers

EXO-200 is a single phase liquid xenon detector designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe to the ground state of $^{136}$Ba. We report here on a search for the two-neutrino double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe to the…

Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties, in particular the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino and the absolute scale of the neutrino mass. The consequences of these searches go…

The PANDAX-4T and XENONnT experiments present indications of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) from ${}^{8}$B solar neutrinos at 2.6$\sigma$ and 2.7$\sigma$, respectively. This constitutes the first observation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Pablo Blanco-Mas , Pilar Coloma , Gonzalo Herrera , Patrick Huber , Joachim Kopp , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

The RED-100 two-phase xenon emission detector has been deployed at 19-m distance from the reactor core of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in 2021 - 2022 for investigation of the possibility to observe reactor antineutrinos using the…

$^{136}$Xe is a 0{\nu}{\beta}{\beta} decay candidate isotope, and is used in multiple experiments searching for this hypothetical decay mode. These experiments require precise information about neutron capture for their background…

A technical description of NEXT-MM and its commissioning and first performance is reported. Having an active volume of ~35 cm drift $\times$ 28 cm diameter, it constitutes the largest Micromegas-read TPC operated in Xenon ever constructed,…

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