The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at LNGS

A. D’Addabbo; C. Alduino; K. Alfonso; D. R. Artusa; F. T. Avignone; O. Azzolini; T. I. Banks; G. Bari; J.W. Beeman; F. Bellini; A. Bersani; M. Biassoni; A. Branca; C. Brofferio; C. Bucci; A. Camacho; A. Caminata; L. Canonica; X. G. Cao; S. Capelli; L. Cappelli; L. Carbone; L. Cardani; P. Carniti; N. Casali; L. Cassina; D. Chiesa; N. Chott; M. Clemenza; S. Copello; C. Cosmelli; O. Cremonesi; R. J. Creswick; J. S. Cushman; I. Dafinei; C. J. Davis; S. Dell’Oro; M. M. Deninno; S. Di Domizio; M. L. Di Vacri; A. Drobizhev; D. Q. Fang; M. Faverzani; G. Fernandes; E. Ferri; F. Ferroni; E. Fiorini; M. A. Franceschi; S. J. Freedman; B. K. Fujikawa; A. Giachero; L. Gironi; A. Giuliani; L. Gladstone; P. Gorla; C. Gotti; T. D. Gutierrez; E. E. Haller; K. Han; E. Hansen; K. M. Heeger; R. Hennings-Yeomans; K. P. Hickerson; H. Z. Huang; R. Kadel; G. Keppel; Yu. G. Kolomensky; A. Leder; C. Ligi; K. E. Lim; X. Liu; Y. G. Ma; M. Maino; L. Marini; M. Martinez; R. H. Maruyama; Y. Mei; N. Moggi; S. Morganti; P. J. Mosteiro; T. Napolitano; C. Nones; E. B. Norman; A. Nucciotti; T. O’Donnell; F. Orio; J. L. Ouellet; C. E. Pagliarone; M. Pallavicini; V. Palmieri; L. Pattavina; M. Pavan; G. Pessina; V. Pettinacci; G. Piperno; C. Pira; S. Pirro; S. Pozzi; E. Previtali; C. Rosenfeld; C. Rusconi; S. Sangiorgio; D. Santone; N.D. Scielzo; V. Singh; M. Sisti; A. R. Smith; L. Taffarello; M. Tenconi; F. Terranova; C. Tomei; S. Trentalange; M. Vignati; S. L. Wagaarachchi; B. S. Wang; H. W. Wang; J. Wilson; L. A. Winslow; T. Wise; A. Woodcraft; L. Zanotti; G. Q. Zhang; B. X. Zhu; S. Zimmermann; S. Zucchelli

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716407047

Proceedings

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EPJ Web of Conferences 164, 07047 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716407047

The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at LNGS

A. D’Addabbo¹^a, C. Alduino², K. Alfonso³, D. R. Artusa¹^,3, F. T. Avignone III², O. Azzolini⁴, T. I. Banks⁵^,6, G. Bari⁷, J.W. Beeman⁸, F. Bellini⁹^,10, A. Bersani¹¹, M. Biassoni¹²^,13, A. Branca¹⁴, C. Brofferio¹²^,13, C. Bucci¹, A. Camacho⁴, A. Caminata¹¹, L. Canonica¹, X. G. Cao¹⁵, S. Capelli¹²^,13, L. Cappelli¹^,11^,16, L. Carbone¹³, L. Cardani⁹^,10, P. Carniti¹²^,13, N. Casali⁹^,10, L. Cassina¹²^,13, D. Chiesa¹²^,13, N. Chott², M. Clemenza¹²^,13, S. Copello¹¹^,17, C. Cosmelli⁹^,10, O. Cremonesi¹³, R. J. Creswick², J. S. Cushman¹⁸, I. Dafinei¹⁰, C. J. Davis¹⁸, S. Dell’Oro¹^,19, M. M. Deninno⁷, S. Di Domizio¹¹^,17, M. L. Di Vacri¹^,20, A. Drobizhev⁵^,6, D. Q. Fang¹⁴, M. Faverzani¹²^,13, G. Fernandes¹¹^,17, E. Ferri¹²^,13, F. Ferroni⁹^,10, E. Fiorini¹²^,13, M. A. Franceschi²¹, S. J. Freedman⁶^,5, B. K. Fujikawa⁶, A. Giachero¹³, L. Gironi¹²^,13, A. Giuliani²², L. Gladstone²³, P. Gorla¹, C. Gotti¹²^,13, T. D. Gutierrez²⁴, E. E. Haller⁸^,25, K. Han¹⁷^,26, E. Hansen³^,23, K. M. Heeger¹⁸, R. Hennings-Yeomans⁵^,6, K. P. Hickerson³, H. Z. Huang³, R. Kadel²⁷, G. Keppel⁴, Yu. G. Kolomensky⁵^,6^,27, A. Leder²³, C. Ligi²¹, K. E. Lim¹⁸, X. Liu³, Y. G. Ma¹⁵, M. Maino¹²^,13, L. Marini¹¹^,17, M. Martinez⁹^,10^,28, R. H. Maruyama¹⁸, Y. Mei⁶, N. Moggi⁷^,29, S. Morganti¹⁰, P. J. Mosteiro¹⁰, T. Napolitano²¹, C. Nones³⁰, E. B. Norman³¹^,32, A. Nucciotti¹²^,13, T. O’Donnell⁵^,6, F. Orio¹⁰, J. L. Ouellet⁵^,6^,23, C. E. Pagliarone¹^,16, M. Pallavicini¹¹^,17, V. Palmieri⁴, L. Pattavina¹, M. Pavan¹²^,13, G. Pessina¹³, V. Pettinacci¹⁰, G. Piperno⁹^,10, C. Pira⁴, S. Pirro¹, S. Pozzi¹²^,13, E. Previtali¹³, C. Rosenfeld², C. Rusconi¹³, S. Sangiorgio³¹, D. Santone¹^,20, N.D. Scielzo³¹, V. Singh⁵, M. Sisti¹²^,13, A. R. Smith⁶, L. Taffarello¹⁴, M. Tenconi²², F. Terranova¹²^,13, C. Tomei¹⁰, S. Trentalange³, M. Vignati¹⁰, S. L. Wagaarachchi⁵^,6, B. S. Wang³¹^,32, H. W. Wang¹⁵, J. Wilson², L. A. Winslow²³, T. Wise¹⁷^,33, A. Woodcraft³⁴, L. Zanotti¹²^,13, G. Q. Zhang¹⁵, B. X. Zhu³, S. Zimmermann³⁵ and S. Zucchelli⁷^,36

¹ NFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila), I-67010 - Italy
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 - USA
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 - USA
⁴ INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova), I-35020 - Italy
⁵ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA
⁶ Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA
⁷ INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, I-40127 - Italy
⁸ Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA
⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, I-00185 - Italy
¹⁰ INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma, I-00185 - Italy
¹¹ INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova, I-16146 - Italy
¹² Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, I-20126 - Italy
¹³ INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano, I-20126 - Italy
¹⁴ INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova, I-35131 - Italy
¹⁵ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800 - China
¹⁶ Dip. di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, I-03043 - Italy
¹⁷ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, I-16146 - Italy
¹⁸ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 - USA
¹⁹ INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, I-67100 - Italy
²⁰ Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, I-67100 - Italy
²¹ INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma), I-00044 - Italy
²² CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
²³ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 - USA
²⁴ Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 - USA
²⁵ Dep. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA
²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240 - China
²⁷ Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA
²⁸ Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Astroparticulas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009 - Spain
²⁹ Dip. di Scienze per la Qualità della Vita, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, I-47921 - Italy
³⁰ Service de Physique des Particules, CEA / Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
³¹ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 - USA
³² Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,, CA 94720 - USA
³³ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 - USA
³⁴ SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ - UK
³⁵ Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 - USA
³⁶ Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, I-40127 - Italy

^a e-mail: antonio.daddabbo@lngs.infn.it

Published online: 5 December 2017

Abstract

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a 1-ton scale bolometric experiment devoted to the search of the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) in ¹³⁰Te. The CUORE detector consists of an array of 988 TeO₂ crystals operated at 10 mK. CUORE-0 is the CUORE demonstrator: it has been built to test the performance of the upcoming CUORE experiment and represents the largest ¹³⁰Te bolometric setup ever operated. CUORE-0 has been running at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy) from 2013 to 2015. The final CUORE-0 analysis on 0νββ and the corresponding detector performance are presented. The present status of the CUORE experiment, now in its final construction and commissioning phase, are discussed. The results from assembly of the detector and the commissioning of the cryostat are reported.

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