EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2015)

The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at Gran Sasso

  • Giachero A.,
  • Artusa D. R.,
  • Avignone F. T.,
  • Azzolini O.,
  • Balata M.,
  • Banks T. I.,
  • Bari G.,
  • Beeman J.,
  • Bellini F.,
  • Bersani A.,
  • Biassoni M.,
  • Brofferio C.,
  • Bucci C.,
  • Cai X. Z.,
  • Camacho A.,
  • Caminata A.,
  • Canonica L.,
  • Cao X. G.,
  • Capelli S.,
  • Cappelli L.,
  • Carbone L.,
  • Cardani L.,
  • Casali N.,
  • Cassina L.,
  • Chiesa D.,
  • Chott N.,
  • Clemenza M.,
  • Copello S.,
  • Cosmelli C.,
  • Cremonesi O.,
  • Creswick R.J.,
  • Cushman J.S.,
  • Dafinei I.,
  • Dally A.,
  • Datskov V.,
  • Dell’Oro S.,
  • Deninno M. M.,
  • Di Domizio S.,
  • di Vacri M. L.,
  • Drobizhev A.,
  • Ejzak L.,
  • Fang D. Q.,
  • Farach H. A.,
  • Faverzani M.,
  • Fernandes G.,
  • Ferri E.,
  • Ferroni F.,
  • Fiorini E.,
  • Franceschi M. A.,
  • Freedman S. J.,
  • Fujikawa B. K.,
  • Gironi L.,
  • Giuliani A.,
  • Gorla P.,
  • Gotti C.,
  • Gutierrez T. D.,
  • Haller E. E.,
  • Han K.,
  • Heeger K. M.,
  • Hennings-Yeomans R.,
  • Hickerson K. P.,
  • Huang H. Z.,
  • Kadel R.,
  • Kazkaz K.,
  • Keppel G.,
  • Kolomensky Yu.G.,
  • Li Y.L.,
  • Ligi C.,
  • Lim K. E.,
  • Liu X.,
  • Ma Y. G.,
  • Maiano C.,
  • Maino M.,
  • Martinez M.,
  • Maruyama R. H.,
  • Mei Y.,
  • Moggi N.,
  • Morganti S.,
  • Napolitano T.,
  • Nastasi M.,
  • Nisi S.,
  • Nones C.,
  • Norman E. B.,
  • Nucciotti A.,
  • O’Donnell T.,
  • Orio F.,
  • Orlandi D.,
  • Ouellet J. L.,
  • Pagliarone C. E.,
  • Pallavicini M.,
  • Pattavina L.,
  • Pavan M.,
  • Pedretti M.,
  • Pessina G.,
  • Pettinacci V.,
  • Piperno G.,
  • Pira C.,
  • Pirro S.,
  • Pozzi S.,
  • Previtali E.,
  • Rampazzo V.,
  • Rosenfeld C.,
  • Rusconi C.,
  • Sala E.,
  • Sangiorgio S.,
  • Scielzo N. D.,
  • Sisti M.,
  • Smith A. R.,
  • Taffarello L.,
  • Tenconi M.,
  • Terranova F.,
  • Tian W. D.,
  • Tomei C.,
  • Trentalange S.,
  • Ventura G.,
  • Vignati M.,
  • Wang B. S.,
  • Wang H. W.,
  • Wielgus L.,
  • Wilson J.,
  • Winslow L. A.,
  • Wise T.,
  • Woodcraft A.,
  • Zanotti L.,
  • Zarra C.,
  • Zhang G. Q.,
  • Zhu B. X.,
  • Zucchelli S.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159504024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 95
p. 04024

Abstract

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The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in 130Te and other rare processes. CUORE is a cryogenic detector composed of 988 TeO2 bolometers for a total mass of about 741 kg. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV·kg·y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity around 1 × 1026 y at 90% C.L. As a first step towards CUORE a smaller experiment CUORE-0, constructed to test and demonstrate the performances expected for CUORE, has been assembled and is running. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring 2013. The status and perspectives of CUORE will be discussed, and the first CUORE-0 data will be presented.