Investigation of Neutrino Properties with Bolometric Detectors

Technical Report · Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1172480· OSTI ID:1172480

Heeger, Karsten M. ^[1]

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1. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Yale University, New Haven, CT (United States)

Neutrino mass and mixing are amongst the major discoveries of the past decade. The particle nature of neutrinos and the hierarchy of mass eigenstates, however, are unknown. Neutrinoless double beta-decay (0νββ) is the only known mechanism to test whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles. The observation of 0νββ would imply lepton number violation and show that neutrinos have Majorana mass. This report describes research activities performed at the University of Wisconsin in 2011-2014 aimed at the search for 0νββ with CUORE-0 and CUORE with the goal of exploring the inverted mass hierarchy region and probing an effective neutrino mass of ~40- 120 meV.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-08ER41551
• OSTI ID: 1172480
• Report Number(s): DOE-UW-11111-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
neutrinos
double beta decay
CUORE