Search for Majorana neutrinos exploiting millikelvin cryogenics with CUORE
dc.contributor.author | Canonica, Lucia | |
dc.contributor.author | Johnston, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mayer, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ouellet, Jonathan L | |
dc.contributor.author | Winslow, Lindley | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-05T15:08:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-05T15:08:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-04-07 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142363 | |
dc.description.abstract | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The possibility that neutrinos may be their own antiparticles, unique among the known fundamental particles, arises from the symmetric theory of fermions proposed by Ettore Majorana in 1937<jats:sup>1</jats:sup>. Given the profound consequences of such Majorana neutrinos, among which is a potential explanation for the matter–antimatter asymmetry of the universe via leptogenesis<jats:sup>2</jats:sup>, the Majorana nature of neutrinos commands intense experimental scrutiny globally; one of the primary experimental probes is neutrinoless double beta (0<jats:italic>νββ</jats:italic>) decay. Here we show results from the search for 0<jats:italic>νββ</jats:italic> decay of <jats:sup>130</jats:sup>Te, using the latest advanced cryogenic calorimeters with the CUORE experiment<jats:sup>3</jats:sup>. CUORE, operating just 10 millikelvin above absolute zero, has pushed the state of the art on three frontiers: the sheer mass held at such ultralow temperatures, operational longevity, and the low levels of ionizing radiation emanating from the cryogenic infrastructure. We find no evidence for 0<jats:italic>νββ</jats:italic> decay and set a lower bound of the process half-life as 2.2 × 10<jats:sup>25</jats:sup> years at a 90 per cent credibility interval. We discuss potential applications of the advances made with CUORE to other fields such as direct dark matter, neutrino and nuclear physics searches and large-scale quantum computing, which can benefit from sustained operation of large payloads in a low-radioactivity, ultralow-temperature cryogenic environment.</jats:p> | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1038/s41586-022-04497-4 | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | arXiv | en_US |
dc.title | Search for Majorana neutrinos exploiting millikelvin cryogenics with CUORE | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Winslow, Lindley. 2022. "Search for Majorana neutrinos exploiting millikelvin cryogenics with CUORE." Nature, 604 (7904). | |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | |
dc.relation.journal | Nature | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2022-05-05T15:03:20Z | |
dspace.orderedauthors | Adams, DQ; Alduino, C; Alfonso, K; Avignone, FT; Azzolini, O; Bari, G; Bellini, F; Benato, G; Beretta, M; Biassoni, M; Branca, A; Brofferio, C; Bucci, C; Camilleri, J; Caminata, A; Campani, A; Canonica, L; Cao, XG; Capelli, S; Cappelli, L; Cardani, L; Carniti, P; Casali, N; Celi, E; Chiesa, D; Clemenza, M; Copello, S; Cremonesi, O; Creswick, RJ; D’Addabbo, A; Dafinei, I; Dell’Oro, S; Di Domizio, S; Dompè, V; Fang, DQ; Fantini, G; Faverzani, M; Ferri, E; Ferroni, F; Fiorini, E; Franceschi, MA; Freedman, SJ; Fu, SH; Fujikawa, BK; Giachero, A; Gironi, L; Giuliani, A; Gorla, P; Gotti, C; Gutierrez, TD; Han, K; Hansen, EV; Heeger, KM; Huang, RG; Huang, HZ; Johnston, J; Keppel, G; Kolomensky, YG; Ligi, C; Liu, R; Ma, L; Ma, YG; Marini, L; Maruyama, RH; Mayer, D; Mei, Y; Moggi, N; Morganti, S; Napolitano, T; Nastasi, M; Nikkel, J; Nones, C; Norman, EB; Nucciotti, A; Nutini, I; O’Donnell, T; Ouellet, JL; Pagan, S; Pagliarone, CE; Pagnanini, L; Pallavicini, M; Pattavina, L; Pavan, M; Pessina, G; Pettinacci, V; Pira, C; Pirro, S; Pozzi, S; Previtali, E; Puiu, A; Rosenfeld, C; Rusconi, C; Sakai, M; Sangiorgio, S; Schmidt, B; Scielzo, ND; Sharma, V; Singh, V; Sisti, M; Speller, D; Surukuchi, PT; Taffarello, L; Terranova, F; Tomei, C; Vetter, KJ; Vignati, M; Wagaarachchi, SL; Wang, BS; Welliver, B; Wilson, J; Wilson, K; Winslow, LA; Zimmermann, S; Zucchelli, S | en_US |
dspace.date.submission | 2022-05-05T15:03:26Z | |
mit.journal.volume | 604 | en_US |
mit.journal.issue | 7904 | en_US |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | |
mit.metadata.status | Authority Work and Publication Information Needed | en_US |