Dr
    Thomas ODonnell
        
            (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
            
        
                05/05/2015, 11:30
            
        
                    CUORE, Scott O'Donnell
                
            
            
        Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is theoretically motivated but has never been observed.  Its discovery would demonstrate lepton number violation, establish neutrinos are Majorana fermions and possibly constrain the absolute neutrino-mass\
 scale.
The last decade has seen tremendous experimental progress in the search for this decay but to push the frontier forward improved...