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First CUORE-0 Performance Results and Status of CUORE Experiment

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The CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay in \(^{130}\)Te. Observation of the process would unambiguously establish that neutrinos are Majorana particles as well as provide information about the absolute neutrino mass scale and mass hierarchy.The CUORE setup will consist of an array of 988 tellurium dioxide crystals (containing 206 kg of \(^{130}\)Te in total), operated as bolometers at a temperature of \(\sim \)10 mK. The experiment is now under construction at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. As a first step towards CUORE, a tower (CUORE-0) has been assembled and is taking data. Here a detailed description of the CUORE-0 tower and its performance is reported. The status of the CUORE experiment and its expected sensitivity will then be discussed.

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The CUORE Collaboration thanks the Directors and Staff of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and the technical staff of our Laboratories. This work was supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); the Director, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract Nos. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and DE-AC52-07NA27344; the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract Nos. DE-FG02-08ER41551 and DEFG03-00ER41138; the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. NSF-PHY-0605119, NSF-PHY-0500337, NSF-PHY-0855314, and NSF-PHY-0902171; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and the University of Wisconsin Foundation.

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  1. J. Goett

    Present address: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM , 87544, USA

  2. L. Kogler

    Present address: Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA , 94551, USA

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  1. INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, AQ, Italy

    L. Canonica, D. R. Artusa, M. Balata, T. I. Banks, C. Bucci, N. Casali, M. L. di Vacri, J. Goett, P. Gorla, S. Newman, S. Nisi, D. Orlandi, L. Pattavina & C. Zarra

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC , 29208, USA

    D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone III, N. Chott, R. J. Creswick, H. A. Farach, S. Newman, C. Rosenfeld & J. Wilson

  3. INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 , Padua, Legnaro, Italy

    O. Azzolini, A. Camacho, A. De Biasi, G. Keppel, V. Palmieri, C. Pira & V. Rampazzo

  4. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    T. I. Banks, S. J. Freedman, L. Kogler, Yu. G. Kolomensky, T. O’Donnell & J. L. Ouellet

  5. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    T. I. Banks, T. Bloxham, S. J. Freedman, B. K. Fujikawa, K. Han, L. Kogler, Y. Mei & J. L. Ouellet

  6. INFN - Sezione di Bologna, 40127 , Bologna, Italy

    G. Bari, M. M. Deninno, N. Moggi, F. Rimondi & S. Zucchelli

  7. Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    J. Beeman & E. E. Haller

  8. Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 , Rome, Italy

    F. Bellini, L. Cardani, C. Cosmelli, R. Faccini, F. Ferroni & G. Piperno

  9. INFN - Sezione di Roma, 00185 , Rome, Italy

    F. Bellini, L. Cardani, C. Cosmelli, I. Dafinei, R. Faccini, F. Ferroni, S. Morganti, F. Orio, G. Piperno, C. Tomei & M. Vignati

  10. INFN - Sezione di Genova, 16146 , Genoa, Italy

    A. Bersani, S. Di Domizio, G. Fernandes & M. Pallavicini

  11. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 , Milan, Italy

    M. Biassoni, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, M. Carrettoni, D. Chiesa, M. Clemenza, M. Faverzani, E. Ferri, E. Fiorini, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, C. Gotti, C. Maiano, M. Maino, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, E. Sala, M. Sisti & L. Zanotti

  12. INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 , Milan, Italy

    M. Biassoni, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, M. Carrettoni, D. Chiesa, M. Clemenza, O. Cremonesi, V. Datskov, M. Faverzani, E. Ferri, E. Fiorini, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, C. Gotti, C. Maiano, M. Maino, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, C. Rusconi, E. Sala, M. Sisti, F. Terranova & L. Zanotti

  13. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai , 201800, China

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  14. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI , 53706, USA

    A. Dally, L. Ejzak, K. M. Heeger, D. Lenz, R. H. Maruyama, L. Wielgus & T. Wise

  15. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 , Genova, Italy

    S. Di Domizio, G. Fernandes & M. Pallavicini

  16. INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 , Frascati, Rome, Italy

    M. A. Franceschi, C. Ligi & T. Napolitano

  17. Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse, 91405 , Orsay, France

    A. Giuliani & M. Tenconi

  18. Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA , 93407, USA

    T. D. Gutierrez

  19. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    E. E. Haller

  20. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA , 90095, USA

    H. Z. Huang, X. Liu, S. Trentalange & B. X. Zhu

  21. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    R. Kadel & Yu. G. Kolomensky

  22. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA , 94550, USA

    K. Kazkaz, E. B. Norman, M. Pedretti, S. Sangiorgio, N. D. Scielzo & B. S. Wang

  23. Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Astroparticulas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 , Zaragoza, Spain

    M. Martinez

  24. Service de Physique des Particules, CEA / Saclay, 91191 , Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    C. Nones

  25. Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    E. B. Norman & B. S. Wang

  26. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, 40127 , Bologna, Italy

    F. Rimondi & S. Zucchelli

  27. EH&S Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA , 94720, USA

    A. R. Smith

  28. INFN - Sezione di Padova, 35131 , Padua, Italy

    L. Taffarello

  29. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, 50125 , Florence, Italy

    G. Ventura

  30. INFN - Sezione di Firenze, 50125 , Florence, Italy

    G. Ventura

  31. SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh , EH9 3HJ, UK

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Canonica, L., Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T. et al. First CUORE-0 Performance Results and Status of CUORE Experiment. J Low Temp Phys 176, 986–994 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1094-8

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