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CUORE is a proposed tightly packed array of 1000 TeO2 bolometers, each being a cube 5 cm on a side with a mass of 750 g. The array consists of 25 vertical towers, arranged in a square of 5 towers by 5 towers, each containing ten layers of four crystals. The design of the detector is optimized for ultralow-background searches for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te (33.8% abundance), cold dark matter, solar axions, and rare nuclear decays. A preliminary experiment involving 20 crystals of various sizes (MIBETA) has been completed, and a single CUORE tower is being constructed as a smaller scale experiment called CUORICINO. The expected performance and sensitivity, based on Monte Carlo simulations and extrapolations of present results, are reported.
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From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2003, pp. 480–485.
Original English Text Copyright © 2003 by Alessandrello, Arnaboldi, Avignone III, Beeman, Barucci, Balata, Brofferio, Bucci, Cebrian, Creswick, Capelli, Carbone, Cremonesi, de Ward, Fiorini, Farach, Frossati, Giuliani, Giugni, Haller, Irastorza, McDonald, Morales, Norman, Negri, Nucciotti, Pedretti, Pobes, Palmieri, Pavan, Pessina, Pirro, Previtali, Rosenfeld, Smith, Sisti, Ventura, Vanzini, Zanotti.
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Alessandrello, A., Arnaboldi, C., Avignone, F.T. et al. A cryogenic underground observatory for rare events: CUORE, an update. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 66, 452–457 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1563703
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