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Yang, Liang Perdekamp, Matthias Grosse Draper, Patrick I MacDougall, Gregory 2022-05 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms The student, Shaolei Li, accepted the attached license on 2021-12-17 at 18:37. The student, Shaolei Li, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-12-17 at 18:48. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-12-22 at 13:56. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17465 on 2022-11-11 at 13:03:56 Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with EXO-200 and the Application of Deep Learning to Detector Simulation Li, Shaolei 2021-12-22 Physics The EXO-200 detector is designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) of 136Xe. Such a decay, if observed, would demonstrate the Majorana nature of neutrino; set the mass scale of the neutrino sector; and demonstrate lepton number non-conservation. The EXO- 200 detector and its successor, nEXO, use liquid Xenon time projection technology to perform the search. One important performance parameter of the detector is its energy resolution. In the first part of this work, we review the analysis work to improve the energy resolution and the status of the 0νββ search. This includes a description of the advanced analysis techniques used to maximize the energy resolution with improved charge channels, calibration ,and more precise Light-Maps. The second part of this work presents the current state of deep learning efforts towards fast simulations of the scintillation signals using Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) algorithms. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115319 https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115319 Copyright 2022 Shaolei Li Ph.D. Dissertation Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics