SuperNEMO
The SuperNEMO collaboration is building a detector at the Modane Underground Laboratory in the French Alps, which uses a unique tracker-calorimeter design to track the individual electrons from possible 0νββ decays and measure their energies.
As well as searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, this design allows us to learn about nuclear physics by studying associated Standard Model decays. Our detector is now in its commissioning phase, and we’re starting to test and calibrate the detector, in preparation for our first physics measurements in the coming months.
The Edinburgh group has a lead role in data analysis for SuperNEMO. We are also heavily involved in commissioning the tracker - the part of the detector that traces the individual particle tracks, and in software and reconstruction. For more information, contact Dr Cheryl Patrick (cpatrick [at] ed.ac.uk).
To find more about SuperNEMO: https://supernemo.org