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O. Cremonesi, Universita di Milano-Bicocca
R. Ardito, Universita di Milano-Bicocca
C. Arnaboldi, Universita di Milano-Bicocca
D.R. Artusa, University of South Carolina - Columbia
F.T. Avignone III, University of South Carolina - Columbia
M. Balata, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
I. Bandac, University of South Carolina - Columbia
M. Barucci, Universita di Firenze
J.W. Beeman, Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory
F. Bellini, Universita di Roma
C. Brofferio, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
C. Bucci, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
S. Capelli, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
F. Capozzi, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
L. Carbone, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
S. Cebrian, Universidad de Zaragoza
M. Clemenza, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
C. Cosmelli, Universita di Roma
R.J. Creswick, University of South Carolina - Columbia
I. Dafinei, Universita di Roma
A. de Waard, Kamerling Onnes Laboratory
M. Dolinski, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H.A. Farach, University of South Carolina - Columbia
F. Ferroni, Universita di Roma
C. Gargiulo, Universita di Roma
E. Guardincerri, Universita di Genova
A. Giuliani, Universita dell'Insubria
P. Gorla, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
Thomas D. Gutierrez, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryFollow
E.E. Haller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
I.G. Irastorza, Universidad de Zaragoza
E. Longo, Universita di Roma
G. Maier, Politecnico di Milano
R. Maruyama, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
S. Morganti, Universita di Roma
S. Nisi, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
C. Nones, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
E.B. Norman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A. Nucciotti, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
E. Olivieri, Universita di Firenze
P. Ottonello, Universita di Genova
M. Pallavicini, Universita di Genova
E. Palmieri, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
M. Pavan, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
M. Pedretti, Universita dell'Insubria
G. Pessina, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
S. Pirro, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
E. Previtali, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
B. Quiter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
L. Risegari, Universita di Firenze
C. Rosenfeld, University of South Carolina - Columbia
S. Sangiorgio, Universita di Genova
M. Sisti, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
A.R. Smith, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
L. Torres, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
G. Ventura, Universita di Milano - Bicocca
N. Xu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
L. Zanotti, Universita di Milano - Bicocca

Abstract

CUORICINO is an array of 62 TeO2 bolometers with a total mass of 40.7 kg (11.2 kg of 130Te), operated at about 10 mK to search for ββ(0ν) of 130Te. The detectors are organized as a 14-story tower and intended as a slightly modified version of one of the 19 towers of the CUORE project, a proposed tightly packed array of 988 TeO2 bolometers (741 kg of total mass of TeO2) for ultralow-background searches on neutrinoless double-beta decay, cold dark matter, solar axions, and rare nuclear decays. Started in April 2003 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), CUORICINO data taking was stopped in November 2003 to repair the readout wiring system of the 62 bolometers. Restarted in spring 2004, CUORICINO is presently the most sensitive running experiment on neutrinoless double-beta decay. No evidence for ββ(0ν) decay has been found so far and a new lower limit, T 1 2/0ν ≥ 1.8 × 1024 yr (90% C.L.), is set, corresponding to 〈m ν〉 ≤ 0.2–1.1 eV, depending on the theoretical nuclear matrix elements used in the analysis. Detector performance, operational procedures, and background analysis results are reviewed. The expected performance and sensitivity of CUORE is also discussed.

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Physics

Number of Pages

7

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NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Thomas Gutierrez was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

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