The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment operated at about 10 mK reaching the ton-scale. CUORE main goal is the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te, while it is suitable also for other kinds of rare event searches, such as dark matter and axions. The detector is situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, and consists in an array of 988 TeO2 crystals, being both the detector and the source of the decay. Since the beginning of 2017, CUORE operations had both phases for physics data taking and campaigns of detector optimization to obtain the maximum from its potential. Here we briefly discuss one of the procedures for the optimization of the detector regarding noise reduction and report the achievements of CUORE concerning energy resolution and background in the region of interest after the first few months of data taking. Finally we conclude by examining the results from our first neutrinoless double beta decay analysis published at the beginning of 2018, which with a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3 kg·y allowed to place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T1/20ν(130Te) > 1.3 ×1025 yr (90% C.L.) .

Marini, L., Adams, D., Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Avignone, F., Azzolini, O., et al. (2018). Results from the CUORE experiment. In Proceedings of Science. Sissa Medialab Srl.

Results from the CUORE experiment

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

Abstract

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment operated at about 10 mK reaching the ton-scale. CUORE main goal is the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te, while it is suitable also for other kinds of rare event searches, such as dark matter and axions. The detector is situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, and consists in an array of 988 TeO2 crystals, being both the detector and the source of the decay. Since the beginning of 2017, CUORE operations had both phases for physics data taking and campaigns of detector optimization to obtain the maximum from its potential. Here we briefly discuss one of the procedures for the optimization of the detector regarding noise reduction and report the achievements of CUORE concerning energy resolution and background in the region of interest after the first few months of data taking. Finally we conclude by examining the results from our first neutrinoless double beta decay analysis published at the beginning of 2018, which with a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3 kg·y allowed to place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T1/20ν(130Te) > 1.3 ×1025 yr (90% C.L.) .
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Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Cryogenic detector, bolometer
English
14th International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons, HQL 2018
2018
Proceedings of Science
2018
332
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Marini, L., Adams, D., Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Avignone, F., Azzolini, O., et al. (2018). Results from the CUORE experiment. In Proceedings of Science. Sissa Medialab Srl.
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