CUORE is a tonne-scale cryogenic experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso that exploits bolometric technique to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of
130
Te
. Thanks to ...its very low background and large mass, CUORE is also a powerful tool to study a broad class of phenomena, such as solar axions and WIMP scattering. The ability to conduct such sensitive searches crucially depends on the energy threshold, which has to be kept as low as possible. In this contribution, we show how the trigger algorithm affects the sensitivity to low-energy phenomena and the interpretation of the energy spectrum. In particular, we focus on the impact that the trigger algorithm has on the identification of the coincidence events among different crystals and, consequently, on the reconstruction of the background.
First results from the CUORE experiment Alduino, C.; Alfonso, K.; Avignone III, F. T. ...
Journal of physics. Conference series,
12/2019, Letnik:
1342, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is a ton-scale experiment aiming to the search of neutrino-less double beta decay in 130Te with a projected sensitivity on the Majorana ...effective mass close to the inverted hierarchy region. The CUORE detector consists of a segmented array of 988 TeO2 bolometers, organized in 19 towers and operated at a temperature of about 10 mK thanks to a custom cryogenic system which, besides the uncommon scale, observes several constraints from the radio-purity of the materials to the mechanical decoupling of the cooling systems. The successful commissioning of the CUORE cryogenic system has been completed early in 2016 and represents an outstanding achievement by itself. The installation of the detector proceeded along 2016 followed by the cooldown to base temperature at the beginning of 2017. The CUORE detector is now operational and has been taking science data since Spring 2017. With the first ~3 weeks of collected data, we present here the most stringent constraint on the 130Te half-live for the neutrino-less double beta decay.
We report on the measurement of the two-neutrino double-beta decay half-life of
130
Te with the CUORE-0 detector. From an exposure of 33.4 kg year of TeO
2
, the half-life is determined to be
T
1
/
2
...2
ν
= 8.2 ± 0.2 (stat.) ± 0.6 (syst.)
×
10
20
year. This result is obtained after a detailed reconstruction of the sources responsible for the CUORE-0 counting rate, with a specific study of those contributing to the
130
Te neutrinoless double-beta decay region of interest.
CUORE sensitivity to 0νββ decay Alduino, C.; Avignone, F. T.; Azzolini, O. ...
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
2017/8, Letnik:
77, Številka:
8
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We report a study of the CUORE sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta (
0
ν
β
β
) decay. We used a Bayesian analysis based on a toy Monte Carlo (MC) approach to extract the exclusion sensitivity to ...the
0
ν
β
β
decay half-life (
T
1
/
2
0
ν
) at
90
%
credibility interval (CI) – i.e. the interval containing the true value of
T
1
/
2
0
ν
with
90
%
probability – and the
3
σ
discovery sensitivity. We consider various background levels and energy resolutions, and describe the influence of the data division in subsets with different background levels. If the background level and the energy resolution meet the expectation, CUORE will reach a
90
%
CI exclusion sensitivity of
2
·
10
25
year with 3 months, and
9
·
10
25
year with 5 years of live time. Under the same conditions, the discovery sensitivity after 3 months and 5 years will be
7
·
10
24
year and
4
·
10
25
year, respectively.
Results from the CUORE experiment Chiesa, D
Journal of physics. Conference series,
01/2019, Letnik:
1137, Številka:
1
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The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay that has been able to reach the 1-ton scale. The ...detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers. The construction of the experiment and, in particular, the installation of all towers in the cryostat was completed in 2016 and data taking started in 2017. In this conference we present the 0νββ decay results of CUORE from examining a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3 kg yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of 7.7 keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of 0.014 counts/(keV kg yr). Based on these data, CUORE places a lower limit on the 0νββ decay half-life of 130 Te T 1 / 2 0 υ > 1.5 × 10 25 yr (90% C.L.). We then discuss the latest updates in the analysis of background and in the evaluation of the half-life of 2νββ decay of 130Te.
Search for β/EC double beta decay of Te Andreotti, E.; Arnaboldi, C.; Avignone Iii, F.T. ...
Astroparticle physics,
03/2011, Letnik:
34, Številka:
8
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We present a search for β/EC double beta decay of Te performed with the CUORICINO experiment, an array of TeO cryogenic bolometers. After collecting 0.0573 kg y of 120, we see no evidence of a signal ...and therefore set the following limits on the half-life: T > 1.9 *10 y at 90% C.L. for the 0ν mode and T > 7.6 *10 y at 90% C.L. for the 2ν mode. These results improve the existing limits by almost three orders of magnitude (four in the case of 0ν mode).
In this paper we present a calculation of the expected flux of the mono-energetic 14.4 keV solar axions emitted by the M1 type nuclear transition of \(^{57}\)Fe in the Sun. These axions can be ...detected, e.g., by inverse coherent Bragg-Primakoff conversion in single-crystal TeO\(_2\) bolometers. The ingredients of this calculation are i) the axion nucleon coupling, estimated in several popular axion models and ii)the nuclear spin matrix elements involving realistic shell model calculations with both proton and neutron excitations. For the benefit of the experiments we have also calculated the branching ratio involving axion and photon emission
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first cryogenic experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta (\(0\nu\beta\beta\)) decay that has been able to reach the ...one-ton scale. The detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO\(_2\) crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. Following the completion of the detector construction in August 2016, CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of about 10 mK. Following multiple optimization campaigns in 2018, CUORE is currently in stable operating mode. In 2019, CUORE released its 2\textsuperscript{nd} result of the search for \(0\nu\beta\beta\) with a TeO\(_2\) exposure of 372.5 kg\(\cdot\)yr and a median exclusion sensitivity to a \(^{130}\)Te \(0\nu\beta\beta\) decay half-life of \(1.7\cdot 10^{25}\) yr. We find no evidence for \(0\nu\beta\beta\) decay and set a 90\% C.I. (credibility interval) Bayesian lower limit of \(3.2\cdot 10^{25}\) yr on the \(^{130}\)Te \(0\nu\beta\beta\) decay half-life. In this work, we present the current status of CUORE's search for \(0\nu\beta\beta\), as well as review the detector performance. Finally, we give an update of the CUORE background model and the measurement of the \(^{130}\)Te two neutrino double-beta (\(2\nu\beta\beta\)) decay half-life.
CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO2 bolometers for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it ...will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV⋅kg⋅y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have a 1σ half life sensitivity of 1026 y. CUORE-0 is a smaller experiment constructed to test and demonstrate the performances expected for CUORE. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring 2013. The status and perspectives of CUORE will be discussed, and the first CUORE-0 data will be presented.
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