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EXO

(Enriched Xenon Observatory)
(experiment to detect neutrinoless double beta decay in xenon)

EXO is a physics experiment to detect neutrinoless double beta decay of xenon-136 (136Xe). The experiment is located underground in New Mexico, consisting of a tank of xenon with photodiodes: the xenon is both the substance decaying and the scintillator. Its design concept was "10 tons of Xenon", aiming to accommodate a very long half-life. The experiment began operation in 2011 with a small version (200 kg of xenon) called EXO-200, which produced double beta decays but not neutrinoless. In the process, it set some bounds on the timescales. An upcoming version, nEXO (for next-EXO), is to incorporate 5000 kg of xenon.


(physics,neutrinos,New Mexico)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_Xenon_Observatory
https://nexo.llnl.gov/
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0210186
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6829
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11142
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ihql.confE..54C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022JPhG...49a5104A/abstract

Referenced by pages:
neutrino observatory
neutrinoless double beta decay

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