The CUORE cryostat: An infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures
Abstract
The CUORE experiment is the world's largest bolometric experiment. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals, for a total mass of 742 kg. CUORE is presently taking data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. A large custom cryogen-free cryostat allows reaching and maintaining a base temperature of ~10 mK, required for the optimal operation of the detector. This apparatus has been designed in order to achieve a low noise environment, with minimal contribution to the radioactive background for the experiment. In this paper, we present an overview of the CUORE cryostat, together with a description of all its sub-systems, focusing on the solutions identified to satisfy the stringent requirements. We briefly illustrate the various phases of the cryostat commissioning and highlight the relevant steps and milestones achieved each time. Finally, we describe the successful cooldown of CUORE.
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- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Milan (Italy)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Milan (Italy). Sezione di Milano Bicocca
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Genova (Italy)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Bologna (Italy)
- Univ. di Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy); National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Milan (Italy). Sezione di Milano Bicocca
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Gran Sasso Science Inst., and Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila)
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States). Center for Neutrino Physics
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila); Univ. dell’Aquila, L’Aquila (Italy)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. di Milano (Italy); National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Milan (Italy). Sezione di Milano Bicocca
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Frascati Roma (Italy)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila), Gran Sasso Science Inst.
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila); Univ. degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino (Italy)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Rome (Italy)
- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States); National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Padova (Italy)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1604703
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1542471
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; FG02-08ER41551; FG03-00ER41138.; SC0012654; NSF-PHY-0605119; NSF-PHY-1404205; NSF-PHY-0500337; NSF-PHY-0855314, NSF-PHY-0902171, NSF-PHY-0969852; NSF-PHY-1307204; NSF-PHY-1314881; NSF-PHY-1401832; FG03-00ER41138
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Cryogenics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 102; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0011-2275
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Alduino, C., Alessandria, F., Balata, M., Biare, D., Biassoni, M., Bucci, C., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cappelli, L., Ceruti, G., Chiarini, A., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Corsi, A., Cremonesi, O., D’Addabbo, A., Dell’Oro, S., Di Paolo, L., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Franceschi, M. A., Gaigher, R., Gladstone, L., Gorla, P., Guetti, M., Ioannucci, L., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Ligi, C., Marini, L., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Nucciotti, A., Nutini, I., O’Donnell, T., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pattavina, L., Pelosi, A., Perego, M., Previtali, E., Romualdi, B., Rotilio, A., Rusconi, C., Santone, D., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Taffarello, L., Tatananni, E., Terranova, F., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wallig, J., and Zarra, C. The CUORE cryostat: An infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.cryogenics.2019.06.011.
Alduino, C., Alessandria, F., Balata, M., Biare, D., Biassoni, M., Bucci, C., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cappelli, L., Ceruti, G., Chiarini, A., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Corsi, A., Cremonesi, O., D’Addabbo, A., Dell’Oro, S., Di Paolo, L., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Franceschi, M. A., Gaigher, R., Gladstone, L., Gorla, P., Guetti, M., Ioannucci, L., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Ligi, C., Marini, L., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Nucciotti, A., Nutini, I., O’Donnell, T., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pattavina, L., Pelosi, A., Perego, M., Previtali, E., Romualdi, B., Rotilio, A., Rusconi, C., Santone, D., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Taffarello, L., Tatananni, E., Terranova, F., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wallig, J., & Zarra, C. The CUORE cryostat: An infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryogenics.2019.06.011
Alduino, C., Alessandria, F., Balata, M., Biare, D., Biassoni, M., Bucci, C., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cappelli, L., Ceruti, G., Chiarini, A., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Corsi, A., Cremonesi, O., D’Addabbo, A., Dell’Oro, S., Di Paolo, L., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Franceschi, M. A., Gaigher, R., Gladstone, L., Gorla, P., Guetti, M., Ioannucci, L., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Ligi, C., Marini, L., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Nucciotti, A., Nutini, I., O’Donnell, T., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pattavina, L., Pelosi, A., Perego, M., Previtali, E., Romualdi, B., Rotilio, A., Rusconi, C., Santone, D., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Taffarello, L., Tatananni, E., Terranova, F., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wallig, J., and Zarra, C. Tue .
"The CUORE cryostat: An infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryogenics.2019.06.011. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1604703.
@article{osti_1604703,
title = {The CUORE cryostat: An infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures},
author = {Alduino, C. and Alessandria, F. and Balata, M. and Biare, D. and Biassoni, M. and Bucci, C. and Caminata, A. and Canonica, L. and Cappelli, L. and Ceruti, G. and Chiarini, A. and Chott, N. and Clemenza, M. and Copello, S. and Corsi, A. and Cremonesi, O. and D’Addabbo, A. and Dell’Oro, S. and Di Paolo, L. and Di Vacri, M. L. and Drobizhev, A. and Faverzani, M. and Ferri, E. and Franceschi, M. A. and Gaigher, R. and Gladstone, L. and Gorla, P. and Guetti, M. and Ioannucci, L. and Kolomensky, Yu. G. and Ligi, C. and Marini, L. and Napolitano, T. and Nisi, S. and Nucciotti, A. and Nutini, I. and O’Donnell, T. and Orlandi, D. and Ouellet, J. L. and Pagliarone, C. E. and Pattavina, L. and Pelosi, A. and Perego, M. and Previtali, E. and Romualdi, B. and Rotilio, A. and Rusconi, C. and Santone, D. and Singh, V. and Sisti, M. and Taffarello, L. and Tatananni, E. and Terranova, F. and Wagaarachchi, S. L. and Wallig, J. and Zarra, C.},
abstractNote = {The CUORE experiment is the world's largest bolometric experiment. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals, for a total mass of 742 kg. CUORE is presently taking data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. A large custom cryogen-free cryostat allows reaching and maintaining a base temperature of ~10 mK, required for the optimal operation of the detector. This apparatus has been designed in order to achieve a low noise environment, with minimal contribution to the radioactive background for the experiment. In this paper, we present an overview of the CUORE cryostat, together with a description of all its sub-systems, focusing on the solutions identified to satisfy the stringent requirements. We briefly illustrate the various phases of the cryostat commissioning and highlight the relevant steps and milestones achieved each time. Finally, we describe the successful cooldown of CUORE.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cryogenics.2019.06.011},
journal = {Cryogenics},
number = C,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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