Latest Results from the CUORE Experiment
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Nutini, I.; Adams, D. Q.; Alduino, C.; Alfonso, K.; Avignone, F. T.; Azzolini, O.; Bari, G.; Bellini, F.; Benato, G.; Beretta, M.; Biassoni, M.; Branca, A.; Brofferio, C.; Bucci, C.; Camilleri, J.; ... Show more Show less
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The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first cryogenic experiment searching for
$$0\nu \beta \beta $$
0
ν
β
β
decay that has been able to reach the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, consists of an array of 988
$${\mathrm{TeO}}_{2}$$
TeO
2
crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of about 10 mK and in April 2021 released its
$$3{\mathrm{rd}}$$
3
rd
result of the search for
$$0\nu \beta \beta $$
0
ν
β
β
, corresponding to a tonne-year of
$$\mathrm{TeO}_{2}$$
TeO
2
exposure. This is the largest amount of data ever acquired with a solid state detector and the most sensitive measurement of
$$0\nu \beta \beta $$
0
ν
β
β
decay in
$${}^{130}\mathrm{Te}$$
130
Te
ever conducted . We present the current status of CUORE search for
$$0\nu \beta \beta $$
0
ν
β
β
with the updated statistics of one tonne-yr. We finally give an update of the CUORE background model and the measurement of the
$${}^{130}\mathrm{Te}$$
130
Te
$$2\nu \beta \beta $$
2
ν
β
β
decay half-life and decay to excited states of
$${}^{130}\mathrm{Xe}$$
130
Xe
, studies performed using an exposure of 300.7 kg yr.
Date issued
2022-10-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsPublisher
Springer US
Citation
Nutini, I., Adams, D. Q., Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Avignone, F. T. et al. 2022. "Latest Results from the CUORE Experiment."
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