CUORE: An Experiment to Investigate for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay by Cooling 750 kg of TeO2 Crystals at 10mK
Author(s) -
J. W. Beeman,
M. J. Dolinski,
T. D. Gutierrez,
E. E. Haller,
R. Maruyama,
A. R. Smith,
N. Xu,
A. Giuliani,
M. Pedretti,
S. Sangiorgio,
M. Barucci,
E. Olivieri,
L. Risegari,
G. Ventura,
M. Balata,
C. Bucci,
S. Nisi,
V. Palmieri,
A. de Waard,
E. B. Norman,
C. Arnaboldi,
C. Brofferio,
S. Capelli,
Francesco Capozzi,
L. Carbone,
M. Clemenza,
O. Cremonesi,
E. Fiorini,
C. s,
A. Nucciotti,
M. Pavan,
G. Pessina,
S. Pirro,
E. Previtali,
M. Sisti,
L. Torres,
L. Zanotti,
Raffaele Ardito,
G. Maier,
E. Guardincerri,
P. Ottonello,
M. Pallavicini,
D. R. Artusa,
F. T. Avig,
I. Bandac,
R. J. Creswick,
Horácio A. Farach,
C. Rosenfeld,
S. Cebrián,
P. Gorla,
I.G. Irastorza,
F. Bellini,
C. Cosmelli,
I. Dafinei,
M. Diemoz,
F. Ferroni,
C. Gargiulo,
E. Longo,
S. Morganti
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
aip conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1551-7616
pISSN - 0094-243X
DOI - 10.1063/1.2355328
Subject(s) - bolometer , double beta decay , majorana , physics , nuclear physics , neutrino , dilution refrigerator , observatory , beta (programming language) , nuclear engineering , particle physics , refrigerator car , detector , astrophysics , optics , computer science , thermodynamics , programming language , engineering
CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is an experiment proposed to infer the effective Majorana mass of the electron neutrino from measurements on neutrinoless double beta decay (0νDBD). The goal of CUORE is to achieve a background rate in the range 0.001 to 0.01 counts/keV/kg/y at the 0νDBD transition energy of 130Te (2528 keV). The proposed experiment, to be mounted in the underground Gran Sasso INFN National Laboratory, Italy, is realized by cooling about 1000 TeO2 bolometers, of 750 g each, at a temperature of 10mK. We will describe the experiment, to be cooled by an extremely powerful dilution refrigerator, operating with no liquid helium, and the main experimental features designed to assure the predicted sensitivity. We present moreover the last results of a small scale (40.7 kg) 0νDBD experiment carried on in the Gran Sasso Laboratory (CUORICINO).
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