Overview of the LEGEND-1000 Experiment

One of the largest questions facing fundamental physics right now is that of the nature of the neutrino, which carries profound consequences in particle physics and cosmology. Since neutrinos were discovered to have mass, the question has become whether that mass is Majorana or Dirac. In other words, whether or not neutrinos are their own antiparticle. The LEGEND-1000 experiment hopes to address this question by searching for neutrinoless double deta decay, a special nuclear decay in which a nucleus undergoes two simultaneous beta decays without the emission of anti-neutrinos. This would also be the first time a process was observed that creates matter without antimatter. To conduct this search, the LEGEND-1000 experiment hopes to gather 1000 kg of Germanium detectors enriched to up to 92% in the isotope Ge-76, a Germanium isotope known to undergo double beta decay. In this talk I will discuss the general design overview, methods, and goals of the LEGEND-1000 experiment.