Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of130Te with CUORE

By C. Collaboration, D. R. Artusa, F. Avignone, O. Azzolini, M. Balata, T. Banks, G. Bari, J. Beeman, F. Bellini, A. Bersani and 111 more. 2014

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Neutrinoless double-beta (0) decay is a hypothesized lepton-number-violating process that offers the only known means of asserting the possible Majorana nature of neutrino mass. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment designed to search for 0 decay of 130Te using an array of 988 TeO2 crystal bolometers operated at 10 mK. The detector will contain 206 kg of 130Te and have an average energy resolution of 5 keV; the projected 0 decay half-life sensitivity after five years of livetime is 1.6 × 1026 y at 1 (9.5 × 1025 y at the 90% confidence level), which corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass in the range 40–100 meV (50–130 meV). In this paper, we review the experimental techniques used in CUORE as well as its current status and anticipated physics reach.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Neutrino Mass Ordering from Oscillations and Beyond: 2018 Status and Future Prospects (2018, background): “Recent constraints on the neutrinoless double beta decay half-life come from the EXO-200 Albert et al. (2014), KamLAND-Zen Gando et al. (2016), CUORE Alduino et al. (2018a), Majorana Aalseth et al. (2018), CUPID-0 Azzolini et al. (2018), Gerda Agostini et al. (2018), and NEMO-3 Arnold et al. (2018) ”