Status of the CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at Gran Sasso

DI DOMIZIO, Sergio

doi:10.1393/ncc/i2015-11840-7

CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO<inf>2</inf> bolometers for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay in <sup>130</sup>Te. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV·kg·y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have a half life sensitivity of ∼ 10<sup>26</sup> y. CUORE-0 is a smaller experiment constructed to test and demonstrate the performances expected for CUORE. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring 2013. The status and perspectives of the CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments will be presented.

Status of the CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at Gran Sasso

DI DOMIZIO, SERGIO

2014-01-01

Abstract

CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO2 bolometers for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay in ¹³⁰Te. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV·kg·y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have a half life sensitivity of ∼ 10²⁶ y. CUORE-0 is a smaller experiment constructed to test and demonstrate the performances expected for CUORE. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring 2013. The status and perspectives of the CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments will be presented.