The CUORE Detector and Results

I Nutini ,S Zucchelli,D Q Fang,L Taffarello,C Alduino,L Gironi,G Fantini,S Morganti,O Azzolini,C Rusconi,R J Creswick,G Bari,F Bellini,T D Gutierrez,S Copello,T Napolitano,C Rosenfeld,C Brofferio,I Dafinei,C Nones,M Vignati,A Giuliani,A Puiu,M Biassoni,A Campani,A Nucciotti,G Pessina,C Bucci,L Marini,F Ferroni,S L Wagaarachchi,B K Fujikawa,B Welliver,L Zanotti,S Pirro,S Zimmermann,M Pavan,G Keppel,S Di Domizio,C Pira,Yu G Kolomensky,N Chott,M Faverzani,L Pagnanini,N Casali,C Tomei,V Singh,N D Scielzo,F Terranova,H Z Huang,P Gorla,K M Heeger,K Alfonso,F T Avignone,N Moggi,V Novati,L Pattavina,A Caminata,V Pettinacci,S Capelli,O Cremonesi,M A Franceschi,L Ma,M Nastasi,A Branca,T O’Donnell,E B Norman,R G Huang,C Gotti,G Benato,J R Wilson ,Y G ,L A Winslow,A Giachero,E Fiorini,D Speller,J L Ouellet,K Wilson,R Maruyama ,X G Cao,E Ferri,M Sisti,A D’Addabbo,K Han,L Cardani,Y Mei,B S Wang,M Pallavicini,M Clemenza,S J Freedman,C Cosmelli,C J Davis,D D’Aguanno,E Previtali,L Cappelli,C Pagliarone ,C Ligi,D Chiesa,V Dompè ,Douglas Q Adams ,S Sangiorgio,J Johnston,P Carniti,Benjamin Schmidt ,S Dell’Oro,L Canonica,J Nikkel,M Sakai,S Pozzi

doi:10.1007/s10909-020-02402-9

Abstract

The cryogenic underground observatory for rare events (CUORE) is a cryogenic experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay ($$0\nu \beta \beta$$) of $${^{130}\hbox {Te}}$$. The detector consists of an array of $$988\,{\hbox {TeO}_{2}}$$ crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. We report the CUORE initial operations and optimization campaigns. We then present the CUORE results on $$0\nu \beta \beta$$ and $$2\nu \beta \beta$$ decay of $${^{130}\hbox {Te}}$$ obtained from the analysis of the physics data acquired in 2017.

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