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Title: Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of 130 Te with CUORE

Journal Article · · Advances in High Energy Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/879871· OSTI ID:1198113
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA, INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
  3. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, 35020 Padova, Italy
  4. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
  5. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  6. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
  7. Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  8. Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy, INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy
  9. INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
  10. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy, INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
  11. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  12. INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
  13. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
  14. INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy
  15. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
  16. INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
  17. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, 00044 Roma, Italy
  18. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  19. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  20. Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse, Orsay Campus, 91405 Orsay, France
  21. Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
  22. Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  23. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
  24. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  25. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
  26. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  27. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
  28. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  29. Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Astroparticulas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
  30. Service de Physique des Particules, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  31. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  32. INFN, Sezione di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
  33. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, 50125 Firenze, Italy, INFN, Sezione di Firenze, 50125 Firenze, Italy
  34. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
  35. SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
  36. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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Neutrinoless double-beta (0vββ) decay is a hypothesized lepton-number-violating process that offers the only known means of asserting the possible Majorana nature of neutrino mass. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment designed to search for 0vββ decay of 130Te using an array of 988 TeO2 crystal bolometers operated at 10 mK. The detector will contain 206 kg of 130Te and have an average energy resolution of 5 keV; the projected 0vββ decay half-life sensitivity after five years of livetime is 1.6 × 1026 y at 1σ (9.5 × 1025 y at the 90% confidence level), which corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass in the range 40–100 meV (50–130 meV). In this paper, we review the experimental techniques used in CUORE as well as its current status and anticipated physics reach.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Contributing Organization:
CUORE Collaboration; The CUORE Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; FG02-08ER41551; DEFG03-00ER41138; AC52- 07NA27344; FG03-00ER41138; NSF-PHY-0605119; NSF-PHY-0500337; NSF-PHY-0855314; NSF-PHY-0902171; NSF-PHY-0969852
OSTI ID:
1198113
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1129519; OSTI ID: 1254482; OSTI ID: 1866164
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-834612; PII: 879871; 879871
Journal Information:
Advances in High Energy Physics, Journal Name: Advances in High Energy Physics Vol. 2015; ISSN 1687-7357
Publisher:
Hindawi Publishing CorporationCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Egypt
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 110 works
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