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experiments · · 7 min read

EXO-200 and nEXO: hunting double-beta decay in a tank of liquid xenon

A 200-kilogram volume of liquid xenon, instrumented as a single time projection chamber, ran for a decade in a New Mexico salt mine. Its successor — nEXO — will hold five tons of the same isotope and push the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay another order of magnitude.