The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events: Status and Prospects

Eric Norman , C. Alduino , K. Alfonso , D.R. Artusa , F.T. Avignone Iii , O. Azzolini , T.I. Banks , G. Bari , J.W. Beeman , F. Bellini , A. Bersani , M. Biassoni , A. Branca , C. Brofferio , C. Bucci , A. Camacho , A. Caminata , L. Canonica , X.G. Cao , S. Capelli , L. Cappelli , L. Carbone , L. Cardani , P. Carniti , N. Casali , L. Cassina , D. Chiesa , N. Chott , M. Clemenza , S. Copello , C. Cosmelli , O. Cremonesi , R. Creswick , J.S. Cushman , A. d'Addabbo , I. Dafinei , C.J. Davis , S. Dell'Oro , M.M. Deninno , S. Di Domizio , M.L. Di Vacri , A. Drobizhev , D.Q. Fang , M. Faverzani , G. Fernandes , E. Ferri , F. Ferroni , E. Fiorini , M.A. Franceschi , S.J. Freedman , B.K. Fujikawa , A. Giachero , L. Gironi , A. Giuliani (1) , L. Gladstone , P. Gorla , C. Gotti , T.D. Gutierrez , E. E Haller , K. Han , E. Hansen , K.M. Heeger , R. Hennings-Yeomans , K.P. Hickerson , H.C. Huang , R. Kadel , G. Keppel , Yu. G. Kolomensky , A. Leder , C. Ligi , K.E. Lim , Y. Ma , M. Maino , L. Marini , M. Martinez , R. Maruyama , Y. Mei , N. Moggi , S. Morganti , P.J. Mosteiro , T. Napolitano , C. Nones (2) , E.B. Norman , V. Novati (1) , A. Nucciotti , T. O'Donnell , J.L. Ouellet , C.E. Pagliarone , M. Pallavicini , V. Palmieri , L. Pattavina , M. Pavan , G. Pessina , V. Pettinacci , G. Piperno , C. Pira , S. Pirro , S. Pozzi , E. Previtali , C. Rosenfeld , C. Rusconi , S. Sangiorgio , D. Santone , N. Scielzo , V. Singh , M. Sisti , A.R. Smith , L. Taffarello , M. Tenconi (1) , F. Terranova , C. Tomei , S. Trentalange , M. Vignati , S.L. Wagaarachchi , B.S. Wang , H. Wang , J. Wilson , L.A. Winslow , T. Wise , A. Woodcraft , L. Zanotti , G.Q. Zhang , B.X. Zhu , S. Zimmermann , S. Zucchelli

1 CSNSM - Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière
2 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a large-scale double beta decay experiment utilizing cryogenic bolometers that is currently being commissioned at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. Its primary focus is to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with a projected sensitivity to Majorana neutrino masses near the inverted mass hierarchy region. The detector is composed of 988 5x5x5-cm3 TeO2 crystals of natural isotopic composition arranged in 19 towers of 52 crystals each, all housed in a common dilution refrigerator. A single CUORE-like tower, CUORE-0, was assembled and operated as a stand-alone detector for a period of approximately two years. In this report, the results from CUORE-0 and the current status and physics potential of CUORE are presented.

Mots clés: talk: Adelaide 2016/09/11; double-beta decay: (0neutrino); observatory; neutrino: Majorana; neutrino: mass; mass: hierarchy; Gran Sasso; nucleus; CUORE; tellurium: oxygen; bolometer; experimental results

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

Eric Norman, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso, D.R. Artusa, F.T. Avignone Iii, et al.. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events: Status and Prospects. 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference, Sep 2016, Adelaide, Australia. pp.369, ⟨10.22323/1.281.0369⟩. ⟨hal-01555084⟩