CUORE and beyond: Bolometric techniques to explore inverted neutrino mass hierarchy
- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States); INFN - LAb Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy)
- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Italy)
- INFN - Lab Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy)
- INFN - Lab Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Roma (Italy); INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma (Italy)
- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova (Italy)
- Univ. di Milano- Bicocca, Milano (Italy); INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai (China)
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
- Univ. di Genova, Genova (Italy)
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma (Italy)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. di Genova, Genova (Italy); INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova (Italy)
- Univ. de Genova, Genova (Italy); INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova (Italy)
- INFN - Lab. Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Italy)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); INFN- Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
- Centre de Spectrometrie Nucleaire et de Spectrometrie de Masse, Orsay Campus (France)
- California Polytechnic State Univ. (CalPoly), San Luis Obispo, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- INFN - Lab. Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Italy)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
- Service de Physique des Particules, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova (Italy)
- Univ. di Firenze, Firenze (Italy); INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze (Italy)
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
- Univ. di Bologna, Bologna (Italy); INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
The CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. With 741 kg of TeO2 crystals and an excellent energy resolution of 5 keV (0.2%) at the region of interest, CUORE will be one of the most competitive neutrinoless double beta decay experiments on the horizon. With five years of live time, CUORE projected neutrinoless double beta decay half-life sensitivity 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). Further background rejection with auxiliary light detector can significantly improve the search sensitivity and competitiveness of bolometric detectors to fully explore the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy with 130Te and possibly other double beta decay candidate nuclei.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; FG02-08ER41551; FG03-00ER41138
- OSTI ID:
- 1201707
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1512153
- Journal Information:
- Physics Procedia, Vol. 61, Issue C; ISSN 1875-3892
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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