学术报告（2019年3月14日 14:00 – 15:30）

主 持 人：王为 教授

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【摘要】

One of the frontier areas of Physics is the search for rare radiation events in underground laboratories, shielded from the Cosmic Ray background. Amongst these searches, the Physics and Astronomy with Xenon (PandaX) collaboration focuses on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136. After a general introduction, I’ll illustrate the present status of these efforts.

【报告人简介】

Franco Giuliani is an Assistant Researcher at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, PRC, currently focusing on the PandaX and JUNO experiments.

Although PandaX is best known for its Dark Matter searches with dual phase xenon TPCs, it is also developing a single phase gaseous TPC to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe. JUNO is building a 20 kton liquid scintillator neutrino detector in Jiangmen, mainly to detect neutrinos from nuclear reactors in Guangdong province, but also sensitive to supernova, solar and geo- neutrinos, as well as sterile neutrinos and other neutrino-related exotics.

After obtaining his PhD from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Franco Giuliani worked, as a postdoc in Lisbon University, on the SIMPLE Dark Matter Search, using Superheated Droplet Detectors to look for WIMP-induced nuclear recoils. During this period he has precurred the "Isospin Violating" interpretation framework of Spin-Independent results, which he called simply “Isospin-dependent”. Subsequently, he has worked as a postdoc, and, later, as an Assistant Research Professor at the University of New Mexico, USA, mainly on the CLEAN and DEAP single phase noble liquid Dark Matter searches, with a brief involvement also in the LBNE-related R&D project CAPTAIN of LANL, a prototype LAr TPC for neutrino beam physics.