The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advancement in this technology, and in this work we apply it for the first time to a high-sensitivity search for a lepton-numberviolating process: 130Te neutrinoless double-beta decay. Examining a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3 kg yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of d7.7 ± 0.5T keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of d0.014 ± 0.002T counts=dkeV kg yrT, we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Including systematic uncertainties, we place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T0ν1/2 (130Te) > 1.3 × 1025 yr (90% C.L.); the median statistical sensitivity of this search is 7.0 × 1024 yr. Combining this result with those of two earlier experiments, Cuoricino and CUORE-0, we find T0ν1/2 (130Te) > 1.5 × 1025 yr (90% C.L.), which is the most stringent limit to date on this decay. Interpreting this result as a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass, we find mββ < (110 - 520) meV, where the range reflects the nuclear matrix element estimates employed.

Alduino, C., Alessandria, F., Alfonso, K., Andreotti, E., Arnaboldi, C., Avignone, F., et al. (2018). First results from CUORE: A search for lepton number violation via 0νββ decay of 130Te. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 120(13) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.132501].

First results from CUORE: A search for lepton number violation via 0νββ decay of 130Te

Arnaboldi, C.;Biassoni, M.;Branca, A.;Brofferio, C.;Canonica, L.;Capelli, S.;Carniti, P.;Cassina, L.;Chiesa, D.;Clemenza, M.;Cremonesi, O.
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Dell’Oro, S.;Faverzani, M.;Ferri, E.;Fiorini, E.;Giachero, A.;Gironi, L.;Gorla, P.;Gotti, C.;Nastasi, M.;Nones, C.;Nucciotti, A.;Nutini, I.;Pattavina, L.;Pavan, M.;Pessina, G.;Pozzi, S.;Previtali, E.;SCHAEFFER, DAVID;Sisti, M.;Terranova, F.;Zanotti, L.;
2018

Abstract

The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advancement in this technology, and in this work we apply it for the first time to a high-sensitivity search for a lepton-numberviolating process: 130Te neutrinoless double-beta decay. Examining a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3 kg yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of d7.7 ± 0.5T keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of d0.014 ± 0.002T counts=dkeV kg yrT, we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Including systematic uncertainties, we place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T0ν1/2 (130Te) > 1.3 × 1025 yr (90% C.L.); the median statistical sensitivity of this search is 7.0 × 1024 yr. Combining this result with those of two earlier experiments, Cuoricino and CUORE-0, we find T0ν1/2 (130Te) > 1.5 × 1025 yr (90% C.L.), which is the most stringent limit to date on this decay. Interpreting this result as a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass, we find mββ < (110 - 520) meV, where the range reflects the nuclear matrix element estimates employed.
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Neutrinoless double beta decay
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2018
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Alduino, C., Alessandria, F., Alfonso, K., Andreotti, E., Arnaboldi, C., Avignone, F., et al. (2018). First results from CUORE: A search for lepton number violation via 0νββ decay of 130Te. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 120(13) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.132501].
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