Investigation of neutrino and weak interactions in double beta decay of atomic nuclei
According to the materials of scientific report at the meeting of the Presidium of NAS of Ukraine, July 1, 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2015.09.039Keywords:
neutrino, double beta decay, low-background experiments, deep purification of materials, scintillation detectorAbstract
Double beta decay is a unique way to study the nature and properties of neutrinos and weak interaction, to test the Standard Model of particles. Investigations of neutrinoless double beta decay require sensitive experimental approaches to detect extremely rare nuclear decays with the half-lives on the level of 1026—1028 years. Ukraine has a significant potential to participate in the next generation large-scale experiments thanks to developed methods of ultra-low background nuclear spectrometry, deep purification of materials, crystal growth technologies.
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