Double Beta Decay: the road to normal hierarchy sensitivity

Jun 6, 2022, 9:00 AM → Jun 7, 2022, 7:00 PM Europe/Lisbon

Auditorium C1.03, Edificio II, 1st floor (ISCTE - Lisboa )

This two-day workshop will gather experts in the field of double-beta decay to brainstorm about strengths and challenges of various methods and isotopes, with particular focus on experiments and techniques in which Europe plays a key role.

Monday, June 6

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Welcome

Speakers: Jose Maneira (LIP), Mário Pimenta (LIP)

dbd22_intro_maneira.pdf

9:10 AM → 10:30 AM Overview Session I

9:10 AM Neutrino Physics Overview

Speaker: Mariam Tórtola (IFIC (CSIC/Universitat de València))

MTortola-DBD2022.pdf

9:50 AM Calculations of the nuclear matrix elements for double-beta decay: an overview of the present status

Speaker: Luigi Coraggio (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" and Naples INFN Unit)

Coraggio@DBD2022.pdf

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee

10:50 AM → 12:30 PM Overview Session II

10:50 AM Neutrino Mass Model

Speaker: José W F Valle (IFIC, Valencia)

lisbon-2022-dbd-valle.pdf

11:30 AM Discussion (moderated by José Valle)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Current and Future Experiments I

2:00 PM Status and prospects of the NEXT experiment

Speaker: Cristina Bernardes Monteiro (LIBPhys, Departament of Physics, University of Coimbra)

DBD_NEXT_CMB_Monteiro.pdf

2:40 PM GERDA / LEGEND

Speaker: Stefan Schönert (TUM)

202206Lisabon_gerda_legend_forupload_compressed.pdf

3:20 PM CUPID: Cuore Upgrade with Particle IDentification

Speaker: Fabio Bellini (Sapienza Università di Roma)

CUPID Lisbona .pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Radioactivity / Background Round Table (moderated by Monica Sisti)

7:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social Dinner

Tuesday, June 7

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Current and Future Experiments II

9:00 AM SNO+

Speaker: Nuno Barros (LIP)

barros_snoplus_dbd2022.pdf

9:40 AM Theia

Speaker: Michael Wurm (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

wurm_theia_dbd_jun22.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Round Table Discussion / Current Experiments and their Limitations (moderated by Stefan Schönert)

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Experiments R&D

1:30 PM LEGEND R&D

Speaker: Ruben Saakyan (University College London)

BeyondL1k_Lisbon.pdf

2:10 PM Loaded Liquid Scintillator Approach for a NH 0νββ Experiment

Speaker: Steve Biller (University of Oxford )

Lisbon 2022 Biller.pdf

2:50 PM Beyond CUPID: bolometric technological developments toward the exploration of the normal hierarchy

Speaker: Andrea Giuliani (CNRS / IN2P3)

Giuliani-Lisbon2022.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Cofee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Round Table Discussion / Future Activities and Points of Collaboration (moderated by Fernando Ferroni)

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Closing Remarks