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Published in AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 850, Issue 1, December 1, 2006, pages 1623-1626.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2355328.
Abstract
CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is an experiment proposed to infer the effective Majorana mass of the electron neutrino from measurements on neutrinoless double beta decay (0νDBD). The goal of CUORE is to achieve a background rate in the range 0.001 to 0.01 counts/keV/kg/y at the 0νDBD transition energy of 130Te (2528 keV). The proposed experiment, to be mounted in the underground Gran Sasso INFN National Laboratory, Italy, is realized by cooling about 1000 TeO2 bolometers, of 750 g each, at a temperature of 10mK. We will describe the experiment, to be cooled by an extremely powerful dilution refrigerator, operating with no liquid helium, and the main experimental features designed to assure the predicted sensitivity. We present moreover the last results of a small scale (40.7 kg) 0νDBD experiment carried on in the Gran Sasso Laboratory (CUORICINO).
Disciplines
Physics
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
Number of Pages
4
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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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