Progress in search for neutrino-less double-beta decay of Xenon-136
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists recently reported results of an experiment conducted in a salt mine one-half mile under Carlsbad, N.M., part of a decades-long search for evidence of the elusive neutrino-less double-beta decay of Xenon-136. They succeeded in setting a new lower limit for the half-life of this ephemeral nuclear decay. Though no one has yet seen it, important progress was made.