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LEGEND: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay and Germanium Detector Technology

Lead Research Organisation: Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics

Abstract

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Planned Impact

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Description A novel scintillator with low natural background for detection and vetoing of radioactive decays in neutrino detectors has been build. These detectors have been build for the LEGEND-200 experiment, designed to detector neutrinoless double beta-decays, which will shed light on the nature of neutrinos. LEGEND-200 has been taking data from March 2023 to February 2024. Analysis of these data is under way.
Exploitation Route PEN is now a candidate detector for low-background particle experiments. It is currently investigated as a cosmic veto detector in low temperature quantum detectors for dark matter searches.
Sectors Education

Energy
URL https://legend-exp.org/