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nEXO Collaborators win "Research Traineeships to Broaden and Diversify Nuclear Physics" DOE grant award

nEXO collaborators Emilie Hein and Kolo Wamba, who are both on the faculty at Skyline College, and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) physicist Mickey Chiu have received grant awards under the DOE's new "Research Traineeships to Broaden and Diversify Nuclear Physics" initiative. The Skyline College group has used the awarded funds to establish a 2-year program which will employ a total of...

nEXO Portfolio Review

In July 2021, nEXO participated in a Portfolio Review conducted by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Together, the Nuclear Physics Program’s leadership team and a distinguished panel of reviewers performed the Portfolio Review, which covered the leading proposed technologies for neutrinoless double beta decay searches to guide future US investment in this scientific field. Mem...

nEXO and Subatech Laboratory Collaboration

The Subatech Laboratory (a joint research laboratory affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research, IMT Atlantique, and University of Nantes), located in Nantes, France has recently joined the nEXO collaboration. Subatech’s nEXO team has a strong expertise in liquid xenon through the XENON and DARWIN projects. We are very excited to benefit from their expertise and look...

Skyline College joins nEXO

In January 2021, Skyline College, one of the three community colleges that form the San Mateo County Community College District, became the newest institution to join nEXO. This marks the first time ever that a community college has joined the collaboration. Skyline is represented in nEXO by physics instructors Kolo Wamba and Émilie Hein. Kolo obtained a PhD in applied physics at Stanford in...

University of the Western Cape joins nEXO

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) joined the nEXO collaboration in August 2020. Located in Cape Town, UWC has a vibrant student body and a proud historical legacy in the South African anti-apartheid freedom movement. The university played a critical role in the country’s transition to democracy, with a number of UWC academics taking up key leadership positions in the first...

nEXO collaborators take lead roles in Snowmass

The Snowmass High Energy Physics Community Planning process is underway, and three nEXO collaborators are taking leading roles in the process. John Orrell is co-convening the Underground Facilities Frontier, Andrea Pocar is co-convening the Rare Processes and Precision Measurements topical group RF04 for Baryon and Lepton Number Violating Processes, and Lisa Kaufman is co-convening the...

New publication: Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

The nEXO time projection chamber (TPC) will be equipped with charge collection tiles to form the anode. In a recently published paper, the charge reconstruction performance of this anode design was studied with a dedicated simulation package. A multi-variate method and a deep neural network were developed to distinguish simulated neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) signals from backgrounds...