Abstract
Neutrinoless double beta decay is the only practical way to understand the
neutrino nature (Dirac or Majorana particle) and to observe full lepton
number violation required by most GUT schemes. It may also turn out to be
the only way to measure the absolute neutrino mass in the laboratory
environment.
SuperNEMO is a next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
based on the successful design approach of the NEMO-3 experiment which
recently stopped data taking after running for 8 years in the Modane
Underground Laboratory in the Frejus Tunnel under the French-Italian Alps.
The unique features of this approach are the ability to study almost any
double beta decay isotope and reconstruction of the event topology which
produces a "smoking gun" evidence for the process and may allow the
underlying physics mechanism to be disentangled.
I will review the results obtained with NEMO3 and report on the status of
the SuperNEMO project.