Speaker
Prof.
Stefan Schonert
(TUM)
Description
Since neutrinos have no electric charge or color, they may be their own antiparticles, referred to as Majorana neutrinos, and thus violate lepton number conservation. Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) would be a direct consequence, and the search for this decay mode is the most sensitive method to unravel the Majorana nature of neutrinos. In this talk, I will high-light recent experimental achievements, the future plans for ton-scale experiments and their experimental challenges to explore neutrino masses down to the $m_{\beta\beta} \sim 10$ meV scale. The synergies with other neutrino mass observables will be summarized.
Primary author
Prof.
Stefan Schonert
(TUM)
