LEGEND-UK Open Workshop

Europe/London
B17 Basement Lecture Theatre (UCL Torrington Place)

B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

UCL Torrington Place

1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
Matteo Agostini (UCL), David Waters , Ruben Saakyan (UCL)
Description

Discovery oriented search for matter creation with the LEGEND experiment and Ge semiconductor detectors: Call for widened UK participation. 

The discovery of matter creation in neutrinoless double beta decay (0vbb) could be within reach of the next generation of experiments. Its observation would constitute the discovery of a lepton number violating process and the Majorana nature of the neutrino. A recent joint North-American — European summit identified LEGEND as a leading contender in the field thanks to its ability to conduct a discovery oriented, background free search for the process. 

UK groups are already key players in LEGEND taking a prominent role in preparation for physics data taking with the LEGEND-200 detector commencing later this year at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. There is now an opportunity for a wider, leading UK participation in the next stage of the experiment, LEGEND-1000, that will have an unprecedented discovery potential for observing 0vbb decay down to Majorana mass values as low as 0.01 eV, fully testing the inverted ordering of neutrino masses and a substantial portion of the normal ordering phase space. 

To this end, we are organising a LEGEND UK workshop open to all members of the UK particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics communities. If you are interested in neutrinoless double-beta decay, germanium detector technology or simply want to learn more about the opportunities afforded by the LEGEND project, you are warmly invited to attend.

The workshop will take place on the 31st of March at UCL, in Torrington Place Building (see “Venue” for details)

Participants
  • Abigail Alexander
  • Alexander Murphy
  • Andrew Mehta
  • Andy Boston
  • Anh Nguyen
  • Beatrice Capp
  • Carl Unsworth
  • Charlie Mills
  • Cheryl Patrick
  • Daniel Muenstermann
  • David Radford
  • David Waters
  • Elisabeth Falk
  • Frank Deppisch
  • Fraser Holloway
  • Harald Fox
  • James Parkin
  • Jeanne Wilson
  • Jim Dobson
  • Justin O'Byrne
  • Karen Clifford
  • Kimberly Palladino
  • Liliana Teodorescu
  • Linda Cremonesi
  • Marc Labiche
  • Marcello Borri
  • Matteo Agostini
  • Paul Kyberd
  • Paul Scovell
  • Rodi Herzberg
  • Ruben Saakyan
  • Ryan Nichol
  • Sammy Valder
  • Sreenivasa Nara Singh Bondili
  • Stefan Schoenert
  • Stefanos Paschalis
  • Steven Tickle
  • Teppei Katori
  • Vitaly Kudryavtsev
  • XinRan Liu
  • Yorck Ramachers
  • Zsolt Podolyak
    • 09:30 10:30
      Reception and Coffee 1h B09

      B09

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
    • 10:30 10:40
      Welcome 10m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: David Waters
    • 10:40 11:10
      Neutrinoless ββ decay and the UK Roadmaps 30m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: Ruben Saakyan (UCL)
    • 11:10 11:45
      Toward the Discovery of Matter Creation with Neutrinoless 𝛽𝛽 Decay - Theory & Experiment 35m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: Matteo Agostini (UCL)
    • 11:45 12:20
      LEGEND and the Ge-76 Experimental Program 35m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: Stefan Schoenert (TUM)
    • 12:20 13:50
      Lunch 1h 30m B09 ( UCL Torrington Place)

      B09

      UCL Torrington Place

    • 13:50 14:30
      LEGEND-1000 - Particle & Nuclear Physics Synergies 40m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: David Radford
    • 14:30 15:00
      LEGEND in the UK 30m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: Andy Boston (University of Liverpool)
    • 15:00 15:15
      PhD student experience 15m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: Abigail Alexander (UCL)
    • 15:15 15:45
      Coffee 30m B09

      B09

      UCL Torrington Place

    • 15:45 17:15
      Discussion and R&D opportunities 1h 30m B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      B17 Basement Lecture Theatre

      UCL Torrington Place

      1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB
      Speaker: Yorck Ramachers (University of Warwick)
    • 17:15 18:30
      Social hour 1h 15m B09

      B09

      UCL Torrington Place