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1. New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Mo100 from the CUPID-Mo Experiment

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F. Charlieux, B. Schmidt, V. B. Brudanin, X. F. Navick, Luc Bergé, Jonathan Ouellet, B. Siebenborn, M. Pavan, I. Dafinei, V.I. Umatov, O. G. Polischuk, Virendra Singh, S. Pirro, M. de Combarieu, Yu. A. Borovlev, L. Gironi, C. Augier, S. V. Rozov, L. Ma, L. Dumoulin, V. Sanglard, M. Beretta, V. I. Tretyak, A. Leder, Davide Chiesa, M. De Jesus, K. Schäffner, Giovanni Benato, K. Eitel, H. Khalife, V.V. Kobychev, D. L. Helis, H. Z. Huang, D. Misiak, A. S. Barabash, A. S. Zolotarova, Ezio Previtali, P. Loaiza, A. Rojas, Ph. Camus, G. Pessina, B. Welliver, S. I. Konovalov, V.D. Grigorieva, J. A. Scarpaci, P. de Marcillac, N. Casali, E. Guerard, F.A. Danevich, E. Yakushev, L. Marini, D. V. Poda, F. Bellini, Haiping Peng, C. Nones, C. Tomei, Yao Shen, J. Johnston, R. G. Huang, E. Olivieri, M. Xue, P. Pari, Eric B. Norman, Laura Cardani, C. Rusconi, M. Gros, J. Gascon, L. Pattavina, B. K. Fujikawa, M. Kleifges, Federico Ferri, S. Marnieros, M. M. Zarytskyy, Alain Benoit, Ch. Bourgeois, E. Armengaud, S. Pozzi, M. Chapellier, T. Dixon, Lindley Winslow, A. Juillard, Matias Velázquez, L. Vagneron, A. Cazes, E. P. Makarov, R. Mariam, V.N. Shlegel, Yu. G. Kolomensky, B. Paul, A. Giuliani, Th. Redon, J. Billard, L. Pagnanini, and V. Novati

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Physics, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Limit (mathematics), Neutrino, 010306 general physics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences
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The CUPID-Mo experiment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) is a demonstrator for CUPID, the next-generation ton-scale bolometric 0νββ experiment. It consists of a 4.2 kg array of 20 enriched Li_{2}^{100}MoO_{4} scintillating bolometers to search for the lepton-number-violating process of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo. With more than one year of operation (^{100}Mo exposure of 1.17 kg×yr for physics data), no event in the region of interest and, hence, no evidence for 0νββ is observed. We report a new limit on the half-life of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo of T_{1/2}>1.5×10^{24} yr at 90% C.I. The limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass ⟨m_{ββ}⟩

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2021
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2. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of Te130 with CUORE

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V. Sharma, D. Speller, Deqing Fang, S. Morganti, J. Nikkel, S. H. Fu, P. T. Surukuchi, S. Zimmermann, Carlo Ligi, R. J. Creswick, A. Campani, L. Gironi, I. Nutini, C. Rosenfeld, J. Camilleri, Oliviero Cremonesi, Kai Vetter, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, Monica Sisti, F. T. Avignone, B. S. Wang, A. Giuliani, Emanuele Ferri, C. Pagliarone, N. D. Scielzo, C. Brofferio, L. Pattavina, C. J. Davis, Silvia Capelli, S. Pozzi, F. Terranova, C. Nones, A. Puiu, Massimiliano Nastasi, S. Di Domizio, K. Wilson, Davide Chiesa, Lucia Canonica, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, Marco Pallavicini, C. Rusconi, B. Welliver, V. Dompè, F. Bellini, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, H. Z. Huang, S. Pagan, Y. Mei, A. D'Addabbo, C. Bucci, L. Marini, T. D. Gutierrez, T. O'Donnell, J. Johnston, S. Copello, N. Moggi, Laura Cardani, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, B. K. Fujikawa, Xiangyu Cao, G. Keppel, Samuele Sangiorgio, K. M. Heeger, A. Nucciotti, C. Alduino, S. Pirro, B. Schmidt, Stefano Zucchelli, S. Dell'Oro, Ke Han, Paolo Carniti, Reina H. Maruyama, Claudio Gotti, Stuart J. Freedman, M. Sakai, O. Azzolini, T. Napolitano, M. Pavan, N. Casali, James R. Wilson, G. Pessina, S. L. Wagaarachchi, V. Pettinacci, M. Vignati, M. Biassoni, I. Dafinei, E. Fiorini, Giovanni Benato, Yudi Ma, L. Pagnanini, Eric B. Norman, L. Taffarello, D. Q. Adams, K. Alfonso, D. Mayer, M. Faverzani, Lindley Winslow, Virendra Singh, L. Ma, C. Pira, G. Fantini, R. G. Huang, A. Branca, M. A. Franceschi, and A. Giachero

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Physics, Nuclear physics, CUORE, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Half-life, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line
Abstract

We measured two-neutrino double beta decay of $^{130}$Te using an exposure of 300.7 kg$\cdot$yr accumulated with the CUORE detector. Using a Bayesian analysis to fit simulated spectra to experimental data, it was possible to disentangle all the major background sources and precisely measure the two-neutrino contribution. The half-life is in agreement with past measurements with a strongly reduced uncertainty: $T^{2\nu}_{1/2} = 7.71^{+0.08}_{-0.06}\mathrm{(stat.)}^{+0.12}_{-0.15}\mathrm{(syst.)}\times10^{20}$ yr. This measurement is the most precise determination of the $^{130}$Te 2$\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life to date.

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2021
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3. Final results of CALDER: kinetic inductance light detectors to search for rare events

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N. Casali, I. Colantoni, Giorgio Pettinari, Angelo Cruciani, V. Pettinacci, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, M. I. Martínez, and M. Vignati

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Kinetic Inductance Detectors, Double Beta decay, Majorana neutrino, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Substrate (electronics), QC770-798, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, Kinetic inductance, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, Double beta decay, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Nuclear Experiment, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Bolometer, Response time, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), QB460-466, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Energy (signal processing)
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The next generation of bolometric experiments searching for rave events, in particular for the neutrino-less double beta decay, needs fast, high-sensitivity and easy-to-scale cryogenic light detectors. The CALDER project (2014-2020) developed a new technology for light detection at cryogenic temperature. In this paper we describe the achievements and the final prototype of this project, consisting of a $5\times5$ cm$^2$, 650 $\mu$m thick silicon substrate coupled to a single kinetic inductance detector made of a three-layer aluminum-titanium-aluminum. The baseline energy resolution is 34$\pm$1(stat)$\pm$2(syst) eV RMS and the response time is 120 $\mu$s. These features, along with the natural multiplexing capability of kinetic inductance detectors, meet the requirements of future large-scale experiments., Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures

Published
2021

4. Phonon-Mediated KIDs as Light Detectors for Rare Event Search: The CALDER Project

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N. Casali, I. Colantoni, F. Bellini, Laura Cardani, M. Vignati, Sergio Di Domizio, A. D'Addabbo, C. Cosmelli, Angelo Cruciani, Claudia Tomei, Maria Gabriella Castellano, and M. I. Martínez

Subjects
Photon, Dark matter, scintillating bolometer, 01 natural sciences, Noise (electronics), dark matter, neutrinoless double beta decay, Particle identification, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Kinetic inductance detector, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Detector, Optoelectronics, Particle physics experiments, business
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Background suppression plays a crucial role in particle physics experiments searching for rare events, such as neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter interactions. Bolometers, that are among the most competitive devices in this field, would largely benefit from the development of ultrasensitive light detectors, as the combined readout of the bolometric and light signals enables the particle identification. The CALDER collaboration is developing superconducting light detectors that will match the requirements of next generation experiments: noise lower than 20 eV, large active area (>20 cm 2 ), wide temperature range of operation, high radiopurity, and ease in fabricating hundreds of channels. For this purpose, we are exploiting the excellent energy resolution and the natural multiplexed readout provided by kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). KIDs have already demonstrated their potentiality as direct detectors of photons for different astrophysical applications. The aim of our project is to apply this technology in particle physics, using indirect detection. These devices can be operated in a phonon-mediated approach, in which KIDs are coupled to a large insulating substrates in order to increase the active surface from a few mm2 to 25 cm 2 . We have already demonstrated the feasibility of a phonon-mediated KIDs-based light detectors, using aluminium sensors. These device reached a baseline sensitivity of around 80 eV with an overall efficiency of about 20%. Currently, we are testing new materials (e.g., Ti-Al and nonstoichiometric TiN) to enhance the sensitivity and reach the goal of our project. We present our results and the physical interpretation of the device behavior. Finally, we also discuss the impact of this project on the most advanced bolometric experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter.

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2017
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5. Cryogenic Light Detectors for Background Suppression: The CALDER Project

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N. Casali, Angelo Cruciani, I. Colantoni, Martino Calvo, M. I. Martínez, H. le Sueur, Alessandro Monfardini, Giorgio Pettinari, Carlo Cosmelli, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, M. Vignati, C. Bellenghi, Johannes Goupy, G. Castellano, Institut Néel (NEEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Sezione di Roma 1] (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), CNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie [Trento] (IFN), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), and University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza]

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Physics, Light detector, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Resonator, Detector, Cryogenic detector, Condensed Matter Physics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Particle identification, Nuclear physics, Phonon-mediated, Observatory, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Background suppression, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Energy (signal processing), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

International audience; The CALDER project aims to realize cryogenic light detectors for the next generation of experiments searching for rare events. More in detail, the main application of these devices will be the background suppression in future cryogenic calorimetric experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu $DBD). This is the case of CUPID, a next-generation $0\nu $DBD observatory, able to take advantage from particle identification to dramatically reduce the background events. In this contribution, we show the status of the CALDER project. The light sensors developed in this R&D are based on kinetic inductance detector operated in the phonon-mediated approach. Their energy resolution (20 eV), time response ($\upmu $s) and multiplexing capability make them very promising for the future CUPID experiment.

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2020
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6. Final results of the CUPID-0 Phase i experiment

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G. Keppel, C. Nones, N. Casali, A. Puiu, S. Pozzi, Massimiliano Clemenza, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Angelo Cruciani, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. S. Nagorny, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, D. Orlandi, Marco Pallavicini, L. Pagnanini, C. Brofferio, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Pessina, A. Giuliani, L. Gironi, C. Gotti, I. Dafinei, Stefano Nisi, Paolo Carniti, M. Pavan, Davide Chiesa, S. Pirro, L. Pattavina, F. Bellini, Jeffrey W. Beeman, O. Azzolini, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, M. Vignati, K. Schäffner, C. Rusconi, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, V. Pettinacci, M. Beretta, E. Previtali, M. Biassoni, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Casali, N, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A

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Physics, History, Detector, Phase (waves), talk: Toyama 2019/09/09, background: model, 01 natural sciences, Double beta decay, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Computer Science Applications, Education, crystal, Gran Sasso, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter: cryogenics, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], detector: resolution, 010306 general physics, Counting rate, experimental results
Abstract

International audience; A convincing observation of neutrino-less double beta decay (0vDBD) relies on the possibility of operating high-energy resolution detectors in background-free conditions. Scintillating cryogenic calorimeters are one of the most promising tools to fulfill the requirements for a next-generation experiment. Several steps have been taken to demonstrate the maturity of this technique, starting form the successful experience of CUPID-0. The CUPID-0 experiment collected almost 10 kg y of exposure, running 26 Zn82Se crystals during two years of continuous detector operation. The complete rejection of the dominant α background was demonstrated, measuring the lowest counting rate in the region of interest for this technique. Furthermore, the most stringent limit on the 82Se 0vDBD was established. In this contribution we present the final results of CUPID-0 phase-I, including a detailed model of the background and the measurement of the 2vDBD half-life.

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2020
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7. Na-based crystal scintillators for next-generation rare event searches

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I. I. Novoselov, S. Sorbino, Laura Cardani, S.S. Nagorny, K. Schäffner, S. Pirro, F. Bellini, Stefano Nisi, V.N. Shlegel, C. Rusconi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, L. Pagnanini, and V.D. Grigorieva

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scintillating bolometers, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Double beta decay, Particle identification, Crystal, Nuclear physics, Particle identification methods, 0103 physical sciences, Cryogenic detectors, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Event (particle physics), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The growing interest in clarifying the controversial situation in the Dark Matter sector has driven the experimental efforts towards new ways to investigate the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA result. Among them, low-temperature calorimeters based on Na-containing scintillating crystals offer the possibility to clarify the nature of the measured signal via particle identification. Here we report the first preliminary measurement of Na-containing crystals, based on a material different from NaI, i.e. Na 2 Mo 2 O 7 and Na 2 W 2 O 7 , pointing out their performance in terms of energy resolution, light yield, and particle identification.

Published
2019

8. CUORE: The first bolometric experiment at the ton scale for the search for neutrino-less double beta decay

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James R. Wilson, N. Moggi, Monica Sisti, Carlo Cosmelli, Samuele Sangiorgio, Lindley Winslow, Jeremy S. Cushman, C. Rosenfeld, A. Nucciotti, Claudio Gotti, C. Alduino, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, S. Copello, V. Pettinacci, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, C. Brofferio, M. Faverzani, Stefano Pirro, D. D'Aguanno, S. Morganti, Paolo Carniti, A. Giuliani, Davide Chiesa, C. Rusconi, C. J. Davis, I. Dafinei, M. Sakai, M. Pavan, S. Zucchelli, K. Wilson, Y. Mei, N. Chott, S. Di Domizio, L. Cappelli, Eric B. Norman, T. Napolitano, V. Dompè, Oliviero Cremonesi, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, A. D'Addabbo, Stefano Dell'Oro, M. Clemenza, Laura Cardani, T. Wise, D. Q. Fang, B. K. Fujikawa, Vasundhara Singh, Stefano Pozzi, Xi-Guang Cao, H. Z. Huang, K. M. Heeger, G. Keppel, M. Biassoni, L. Taffarello, C. Pagliarone, S. Zimmermann, Marco Pallavicini, T. O'Donnell, A. Caminata, Carlo Ligi, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Ezio Previtali, G. Pessina, B. Schmidt, Danielle Speller, B. S. Wang, B. Welliver, M. Vignati, O. Azzolini, Irene Nutini, Ettore Fiorini, V. Novati, Andrea Giachero, A. Campani, C. Pira, L. Pattavina, A. Drobizhev, Silvia Capelli, C. Nones, A. Puiu, F. Terranova, Yu-Gang Ma, Massimiliano Nastasi, D. Q. Adams, K. Alfonso, N. Casali, Giovanni Benato, M. A. Franceschi, G. Fantini, A. Branca, R. G. Huang, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, Stuart J. Freedman, S. L. Wagaarachchi, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, A. Bersani, R. J. Creswick, F. Bellini, A. Leder, N. D. Scielzo, L. Zanotti, L. Canonica, L. Marini, J. Johnston, Evelyn Ferri, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Adams D.Q., Alduino C., Alfonso K., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Bari G., Bellini F., Benato G., Bersani A., Biassoni M., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Caminata A., Campani A., Canonica L., Cao X.G., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cushman J.S., D'Addabbo A., D'Aguanno D., Dafinei I., Davis C.J., Dell'Oro S., Di Domizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Fang D.Q., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi M.A., Freedman S.J., Fujikawa B.K., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Heeger K.M., Huang R.G., Huang H.Z., Johnston J., Keppel G., Kolomensky Y.G., Leder A., Ligi C., Ma Y.G., Marini L., Maruyama R.H., Mei Y., Moggi N., Morganti S., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novati V., Nucciotti A., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Ouellet J.L., Pagliarone C.E., Pallavicini M., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sakai M., Sangiorgio S., Schmidt B., Scielzo N.D., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Taffarello L., Terranova F., Tomei C., Vignati M., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang B.S., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Wise T., Zanotti L., Zimmermann S., Zucchelli S., Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Adams, D, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Bari, G, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Caminata, A, Campani, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D'Addabbo, A, D'Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Di Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Heeger, K, Huang, R, Huang, H, Johnston, J, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Ma, Y, Marini, L, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sangiorgio, S, Schmidt, B, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Taffarello, L, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zimmermann, S, and Zucchelli, S

Subjects
Cryostat, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, energy resolution, 01 natural sciences, tellurium: oxygen, law.invention, Nuclear physics, energy: threshold, CUORE, Bolometers, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Ton-scale detector, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, Observatory, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, activity report, background: suppression, detector: design, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Ton-scale detector, Bolometers, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Detector, sensitivity, cryogenics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, performance
Abstract

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the most massive bolometric experiment searching for neutrino-less double beta (0 ν β β ) decay. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO 2 crystals (742 kg) arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. This paper will describe the CUORE experiment, including the cryostat, and present the detector performance during the first year of running. Additional detail will describe the effort made in improving the energy resolution in the 130Te 0 ν β β decay region of interest (ROI) and the suppression of backgrounds. A description of work to lower the energy threshold in order to give CUORE the sensitivity to search for other rare events, such as dark matter, will also be provided.

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2019
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9. Result on the neutrinoless double beta decay search of 82 Se with the CUPID-0 experiment

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A. S. Zolotarova, Paolo Carniti, Stefano Nisi, A. Puiu, Oliverio Cremonesi, Angelo Cruciani, M. Clemenza, L. Pattavina, Ezio Previtali, Marco Pallavicini, M. Beretta, Sergio Di Domizio, A. D'Addabbo, L. Pagnanini, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, L. Gironi, N. Casali, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, Karoline Schäffner, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, V. Palmieri, C. Bucci, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Claudia Nones, Lorenzo Cassina, Claudio Gotti, Maria Teresa Barrera, Silvio Morganti, M. Vignati, V. Pettinacci, Stefano Pirro, A. Giuliani, Sergei Nagorny, M. Biassoni, Lucia Canonica, F. Bellini, C. Rusconi, C. Brofferio, M. I. Martínez, Ioan Dafinei, Claudia Tomei, O. Azzolini, G. Keppel, D. Orlandi, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Bellini, F, Azzolini, O, Teresa Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D’Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A

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Semileptonic decay, lcsh:QC793-793.5, Large array, General Physics and Astronomy, Majorana neutrino, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Zn82Se scintillating cryogenic calorimeters, Zn82Se scintillating cryogenic calorimeter, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, law.invention, scintillation counter: cryogenics, Nuclear physics, mass: scale, background: low, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Mass scale, neutrino: mass, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, particle: energy, Bolometer, lcsh:Elementary particle physics, semileptonic decay, Gran Sasso, calorimeter: cryogenics, neutrino: Majorana, particle identification, α particles, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
Abstract

CUPID-0 is the first large array of scintillating Zn 82 Se cryogenic calorimeters (bolometers) implementing particle identification for the search of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0 ν β β ). The detector consists of 24 enriched Zn 82 Se bolometers for a total 82 Se mass of 5.28 kg and it has been taking data in the underground LNGS (Italy) since March 2017. In this article we show how the dual read-out provides a powerful tool for the α particles rejection. The simultaneous use of the heat and light information allows us to reduce the background down to (3.2 − 1.1 + 1.3 )×10 − 3 counts/(keV kg year), an unprecedented level for cryogenic calorimeters. In a total exposure of 5.46 kg year Zn 82 Se we set the most stringent limit on the 0 ν β β decay 82 Se half-life T 1 / 2 0 ν > 4.0 × 10 24 year at 90% C.I.

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2019
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10. CUPID-0: A double-readout cryogenic detector for Double Beta Decay search

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D. Orlandi, Davide Chiesa, C. Brofferio, Jeffrey W. Beeman, G. Keppel, S. Di Domizio, C. Rusconi, M. Clemenza, Laura Cardani, K. Schäffner, Stefano Pozzi, L. Pattavina, M. Vignati, Claudio Gotti, S. S. Nagorny, M. Pavan, L. Pagnanini, I. Dafinei, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Silvia Capelli, Marco Pallavicini, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Giuliani, Paolo Carniti, G. Pessina, F. Bellini, C. Zolotarova, M. Beretta, V. Pettinacci, Stefano Pirro, C. Nones, A. Puiu, N. Casali, L. Gironi, M. Biassoni, O. Azzolini, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. Morganti, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, Stefano Nisi, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, C

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Crystal growth, macro-bolometers, Neutrino-less double beta decay, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, law.invention, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, CUPID, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, selenium, Instrumentation, Scintillation, activity report, 010302 applied physics, Physics, background, Bolometer, Detector, zinc, Alpha background, Background level, Gran Sasso, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, ZnSe, calorimeter: cryogenics, scintillation counter: crystal, Cryogenic detectors, High Energy Physics::Experiment, scintillating cryogenic calorimeter, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE, performance
Abstract

CUPID-0 is the first large mass neutrino-less double beta decay ( 0 ν β β ) experiment based on cryogenic calorimeters with dual read-out of light and heat for background rejection. The detector assembly, consisting of 26 ZnSe crystals, 2 natural and 24 enriched at 95% in 82Se, all coupled with bolometric light detectors, has been constructed respecting very strict protocols and procedures, from the material selection during crystal growth to the new and innovative detector framework, in the attempt to achieve the best performance of the array. The successful construction of the detector lead to promising preliminary results, here presented. The array is in fact taking data underground at LNGS (Italy) since March 2017 and the particle identification, enabled by the light read-out, provides an unprecedented background level, for cryogenic calorimeters, of only 3.2 counts keV − 1 t − 1 yr − 1 in the region of interest of the 0 ν β β search for 82Se, namely around 3 MeV.

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2019
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11. Results on double beta decay of 82Se with CUPID-0 Phase i

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Davide Chiesa, Jeffrey W. Beeman, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Keppel, L. Pattavina, Massimiliano Clemenza, Stefano Nisi, C. Bucci, S. Di Domizio, N. Casali, C. Rusconi, Laura Cardani, C. Gotti, Paolo Carniti, C. Brofferio, M. Vignati, Simone Capelli, V. Pettinacci, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. Biassoni, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, L. Gironi, S. S. Nagorny, Angelo Cruciani, O. Azzolini, Marco Pallavicini, I. Dafinei, F. Bellini, S. Pozzi, L. Pagnanini, M. Pavan, C. Nones, A. Puiu, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Giuliani, D. Orlandi, G. Pessina, M. Beretta, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, K. Schäffner, Pagnanini, L, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Zolotarova, A, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

Subjects
measurement methods, background: model, Phase (waves), [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Lower limit, law.invention, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, Region of interest, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), 010306 general physics, background: radioactivity, scintillation counter, Physics, Measurement method, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Detector, Gran Sasso, Scintillation counter, calorimeter: cryogenics, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Scintillating Bolometers, Cryogenic Detector, experimental results
Abstract

International audience; CUPID-0 is the first neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) experiment based on highly enriched scintillating bolometers. It consists in an array of Zn82Se detectors operated at LNGS since 2017. During the Phase I of data taking, concluded at the end of 2018, the experiment collected an exposure of 9.95 kg·yr of ZnSe. The simultaneous heat-light readout provides a powerful rejection of α-particles and allows us to suppress the background in the region of interest down to 3.5−0.9+1.0×10−3 counts/(keV·kg·y), an unprecedented level for this technique. Thanks to this achievement, we set the most stringent lower limit on the 82Se 0νββ half-life. Moreover, we have developed a full background model, which allows us to identify the origin of the events in the region of interest. The reconstruction of the CUPID-0 spectrum has enabled us to perform the most precise measurement of the 2νββ of 82Se.

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2019
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12. CUPID-0, challenges and achievements in the struggle of 0-background double-beta decay experiments

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L. Gironi, N. Casali, G. Keppel, C. Nones, A. Puiu, D. Orlandi, A. D'Addabbo, I. Dafinei, Oliviero Cremonesi, Claudio Gotti, L. Pattavina, Marco Pallavicini, Lucia Canonica, S. Di Domizio, M. Clemenza, G. Pessina, F. Bellini, S. S. Nagorny, C. Bucci, Lorenzo Cassina, Miriam Lucio Martinez, A. Giuliani, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, S. Morganti, Silvia Capelli, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. S. Zolotarova, L. Pagnanini, Jeffrey W. Beeman, M. T. Barrera, O. Azzolini, Paolo Carniti, M. Vignati, V. Palmieri, M. Biassoni, V. Pettinacci, Stefano Pirro, M. Pavan, K. Schäffner, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, E. Bossio, M. Beretta, C. Brofferio, C. Rusconi, Stefano Nisi, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Azzolini, O, Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Bossio, E, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, measurement methods, shape analysis, Cryogenic bolometer, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, law.invention, crystal, Nuclear physics, Crystal, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Cryogenic bolometers, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, selenium, Instrumentation, background: radioactivity, scintillation counter, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Bolometer, zinc, Scintillation counter, Neutrinoless double-beta decay, Zinc selenide scintillator, particle identification, performance, Shape analysis (digital geometry), experimental results
Abstract

The background is the key issue of any experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0 ν DBD) and one of the possible solutions is the use of high resolution detectors in which background can be actively discriminated. CUPID-0 is the first 0 ν DBD experiment based on scintillating bolometers able to perform efficient particle identification allowing for background reduction at the unprecedented level of ∼ 10−3 cts/(keV ⋅ kg ⋅ yr). This work makes an overview of the main problems and solutions applied in the construction of the CUPID-0 experimental apparatus, starting from the production of the crystal up to the assembly of the detector. Particular attention is payed to the methods applied to avoid the radio-contamination. The recovery of enriched Se loss along the crystal production cycle is discussed as the main challenge for the budget of this kind of experiments. The good bolometric performance of crystals is emphasized together with supplementary discrimination power offered in the case of ZnSe by the pulse shape analysis, besides the bare scintillation signal. We also make a brief report on detector performance and the results obtained till present which allowed us to establish the world best half-time limit on 82Se 0 ν DBD of >2.4 ⋅ 1024 yr (90% C.I.).

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2019
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13. CUPID-0: cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for $0\nu\beta\beta$ searches

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C. Brofferio, L. Pagnanini, Oliviero Cremonesi, Simone Capelli, Stefano Nisi, S. Pirro, Paolo Carniti, C. Gotti, M. T. Barrera, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, D. Orlandi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Angelo Cruciani, N. Casali, Marco Pallavicini, C. Rusconi, E. Previtali, L. Gironi, Lorenzo Cassina, G. Keppel, Laura Cardani, A. D'Addabbo, Lucia Canonica, V. Palmieri, F. Bellini, O. Azzolini, S. Nagornyg, M. Biassoni, I. Dafinei, V. Pettinacci, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Pessina, S. Morganti, M. Beretta, Sergio Di Domizio, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, M. Vignati, C. Tomei, K. Schäffner, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Giuliani, M. Pavan, C. Nones, A. Puiu, S. Pozzi, L. Pattavina, Massimiliano Clemenza, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

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Physics, Measurement method, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, zinc, measurement methods, Light signal, helium: background, scintillation counter: cryogenics, Nuclear physics, Amplitude, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 13. Climate action, Beta (plasma physics), Double beta decay, calorimeter: cryogenics, scintillation counter: crystal, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Nuclide, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], selenium: nuclide, nuclide
Abstract

International audience; Cryogenic calorimeters are currently used by experiments searching for neutrino-less double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$). The sensitivity of these experiments is limited by the background coming from $\alpha$ radioactive contaminations. This background can be rejected exploiting the simultaneous read-out of light and heat in scintillating cryogenic calorimeters, because both the amplitude and the time development of the light signal depend on the nature of the particle interacting within. In this paper we present the CUPID-0 detector which represents the first demonstrator of this technique. Exploiting an array of 26 Zn$^{82}$Se scintillating crystals operated as calorimeters and monitored by 31 cryogenic light detectors, CUPID-0 demonstrated the capability to completely reject the $\alpha$ background, paving the way for a next generation experiment searching for 0$\nu\beta\beta$.

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2018
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14. Results from the Cuore Experiment

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Deqing Fang, Benjamin Schmidt, A. Bersani, A. Caminata, L. Zanotti, S. Copello, N. Casali, Carlo Ligi, V. Dompè, C. Pira, Carlo Cosmelli, A. Campani, C. Bucci, Paolo Carniti, Chris Alduino, A. Leder, K. Wilson, C. Pagliarone, S. Zimmermann, Oliviero Cremonesi, Lindley Winslow, L. Gironi, R. Hennings-Yeomans, F. T. Avignone, Vivek Singh, Irene Nutini, T. Wise, Giovanni Benato, Ke Han, A. Branca, C. Brofferio, N. Moggi, Reina H. Maruyama, Jeremy S. Cushman, Jonathan Ouellet, Yu-Gang Ma, Claudia Tomei, G. Bari, L. Taffarello, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, Eric B. Norman, Lucia Canonica, N. Chott, Danielle Speller, G. Fantini, Nick Scielzo, V. Novati, V. Pettinacci, Silvio Morganti, F. Bellini, T. Napolitano, Samuele Sangiorgio, T. D. Gutierrez, F. Terranova, Stefano Dell'Oro, M. Clemenza, Stefano Pirro, D. D'Aguanno, A. Nucciotti, O. Azzolini, Barbara Wang, A. Puiu, Sergio Di Domizio, A. D'Addabbo, M. Biassoni, Davide Chiesa, S. J. Freedman, G. Keppel, C. Rosenfeld, Silvia Capelli, M. Faverzani, Y. u. G. Kolomensky, P. Gorla, Massimiliano Nastasi, Claudia Nones, F. Ferroni, Claudio Gotti, Laura Cardani, Emanuele Ferri, Milena Deninno, B. K. Fujikawa, Ettore Fiorini, J. S. Wilson, C. Rusconi, Y. Mei, Stefano Pozzi, L. Marini, C. J. Davis, Andrea Giachero, J. Johnston, Ioan Dafinei, Marco Pallavicini, M. Vignati, A. Giuliani, G. Pessina, H. Z. Huang, D. Q. Adams, Sachinthya Wagaarachchi, K. Alfonso, M. Sakai, T. O'Donnell, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, Luigi Cappelli, M. I. Martínez, S. Zucchelli, Monica Sisti, A. Drobizhev, Richard Creswick, M. A. Franceschi, R. G. Huang, Ezio Previtali, Bradford Welliver, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Caminata A., Adams D., Alduino C., Alfonso K., Avignone F., Azzolini O., Bari G., Bellini F., Benato G., Bersani A., Biassoni M., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Campani A., Canonica L., Cao X.-G., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Creswick R., Cushman J., D'Addabbo A., D'Aguanno D., Dafinei I., Davis C., Dell'Oro S., Deninno M., Di Domizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Fang D.-Q., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi M.A., Freedman S., Fujikawa B., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gutierrez T., Han K., Heeger K., Hennings-Yeomans R., Huang R., Huang H.Z., Johnston J., Keppel G., Kolomensky Y., Leder A., Ligi C., Ma Y.-G., Marini L., Martinez M., Maruyama R., Mei Y., Moggi N., Morganti S., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Nones C., Norman E., Novati V., Nucciotti A., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Ouellet J., Pagliarone C., Pallavicini M., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sakai M., Sangiorgio S., Schmidt B., Scielzo N., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Taffarello L., Terranova F., Tomei C., Vignati M., Wagaarachchi S., Wang B., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L., Wise T., Zanotti L., Zimmermann S., Zucchelli S., Caminata, A, Adams, D, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Bari, G, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Campani, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D’Addabbo, A, D’Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell’Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Dompè, V, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Huang, R, Huang, H, Johnston, J, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Ma, Y, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O’Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sangiorgio, S, Schmidt, B, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Taffarello, L, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zimmermann, S, Zucchelli, S, Center for Neutrino Physics, and Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP)

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lcsh:QC793-793.5, CUORE, Majorana Neutrino, Neutrinoless double beta decay, lower limit, energy resolution, General Physics and Astronomy, bolometer: crystal, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Lower limit, neutrinoless double beta decay, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Effective energy, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Observatory, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, talk: Kolymbari 2018/07/04, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], tellurium: lifetime, structure, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, lcsh:Elementary particle physics, Bolometer, neutrino: Majorana: mass, observatory, Full width at half maximum, experimental results
Abstract

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay that has been able to reach the 1-ton scale. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO 2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers, each of them made of 52 crystals. The construction of the experiment was completed in August 2016 and the data taking started in spring 2017 after a period of commissioning and tests. In this work we present the neutrinoless double beta decay results of CUORE from examining a total TeO 2 exposure of 86.3 kg yr , characterized by an effective energy resolution of 7.7 keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of 0.014 counts / ( keV kg yr ) . In this physics run, CUORE placed a lower limit on the decay half-life of neutrinoless double beta decay of 130 Te &gt, 1.3 &middot, 10 25 yr (90% C.L.). Moreover, an analysis of the background of the experiment is presented as well as the measurement of the 130 Te 2 &nu, &beta, decay with a resulting half-life of T 1 / 2 2 &nu, = [ 7.9 &plusmn, 0.1 ( stat . ) &plusmn, 0.2 ( syst . ) ] &times, 10 20 yr which is the most precise measurement of the half-life and compatible with previous results.

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2018
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15. First Result on the Neutrinoless Double- β Decay of Se82 with CUPID-0

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A. D'Addabbo, G. Keppel, M. Beretta, K. Schäffner, Alexandre Giuliani, S. Pirro, L. Gironi, S. S. Nagorny, Massimiliano Clemenza, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, M. Pavan, Paolo Carniti, L. Marini, Claudio Gotti, M. T. Barrera, Oliviero Cremonesi, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, C. Nones, Jeffrey W. Beeman, A. Puiu, V. Palmieri, C. Brofferio, Stefano Nisi, Massimiliano Nastasi, Simone Capelli, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, V. Pettinacci, M. Biassoni, Stefano Pozzi, M. Vignati, S. Morganti, N. Casali, A. S. Zolotarova, Lucia Canonica, F. Reindl, O. Azzolini, C. Rusconi, L. Pagnanini, F. Bellini, Marco Pallavicini, G. Pessina, D. Orlandi, L. Pattavina, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, Lorenzo Cassina, and Ioan Dafinei

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Large array, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Lower limit, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Scintillation counter, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, α particles
Abstract

We report the result of the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Se82 obtained with CUPID-0, the first large array of scintillating ZnSe82 cryogenic calorimeters implementing particle identification. We observe no signal in a 1.83 kg yr Se82 exposure, and we set the most stringent lower limit on the 0νββ Se82 half-life T1/20ν>2.4×1024 yr (90% credible interval), which corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass mββ

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2018
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16. CUPID-0: the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for 0 $$\nu \beta \beta $$ ν β β decay investigations

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Massimiliano Clemenza, O. Azzolini, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, S. Pirro, C. Brofferio, Massimiliano Nastasi, L. Canonica, V. Palmieri, M. Vignati, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, N. Casali, C. Rusconi, M. Biassoni, G. Keppel, I. Dafinei, Jeffrey W. Beeman, L. Gironi, Stefano Nisi, M. Pavan, F. Bellini, L. Pattavina, A. Cruciani, A. S. Zolotarova, M. Beretta, C. Nones, A. Puiu, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, A. Giuliani, F. Reindl, D. Orlandi, Lorenzo Cassina, Marco Pallavicini, K. Schäffner, G. Pessina, Oliviero Cremonesi, Claudio Gotti, M. T. Barrera, L. Pagnanini, Simone Capelli, Paolo Carniti, A. D'Addabbo, S. Morganti, Ezio Previtali, V. Pettinacci, and S. S. Nagorny

Subjects
Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Large array, Detector, Cryogenics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Background suppression, Scintillation counter, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract

The CUPID-0 detector hosted at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, is the first large array of enriched scintillating cryogenic detectors for the investigation of $$^{82}$$ Se neutrinoless double-beta decay ( $$0\nu \beta \beta $$ ). CUPID-0 aims at measuring a background index in the region of interest (RoI) for $$0\nu \beta \beta $$ at the level of 10 $$^{-3}$$ counts/(keV kg years), the lowest value ever measured using cryogenic detectors. CUPID-0 operates an array of Zn $$^{82}$$ Se scintillating bolometers coupled with bolometric light detectors, with a state of the art technology for background suppression and thorough protocols and procedures for the detector preparation and construction. In this paper, the different phases of the detector design and construction will be presented, from the material selection (for the absorber production) to the new and innovative detector structure. The successful construction of the detector lead to promising preliminary detector performance which is discussed here.

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2018
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17. Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches

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Lorenzo Cassina, Paolo Carniti, S. Di Domizio, E. Bossio, Marco Pallavicini, Laura Cardani, Claudio Gotti, Stefano Pozzi, G. Pessina, M. Pavan, F. Bellini, M. I. Martínez, A. Giuliani, M. Vignati, S. Pirro, C. Brofferio, I. Dafinei, Silvia Capelli, C. Rusconi, Massimiliano Nastasi, K. Schäffner, M. Clemenza, S. Morganti, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, L. Pattavina, L. Pagnanini, V. Pettinacci, C. Nones, O. Azzolini, A. Puiu, L. Canonica, A. D'Addabbo, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, V. Palmieri, Stefano Nisi, M. Beretta, M. Biassoni, L. Gironi, S.S. Nagorny, D. Orlandi, C. Bucci, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Keppel, M. T. Barrera, Oliviero Cremonesi, N. Casali, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Azzolini, O, Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Bossio, E, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D’Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Regular Article - Experimental Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, lcsh:Astrophysics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Nuclear physics, Particle and Plasma Physics, Double beta decay, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Nuclear, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Scintillation, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Molecular, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Physics and Astronomy, lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, α particles
Abstract

The suppression of spurious events in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay will play a major role in next generation experiments. The background of detectors based on the technology of cryogenic calorimeters is expected to be dominated by {\alpha} particles, that could be disentangled from double beta decay signals by exploiting the difference in the emission of the scintillation light. CUPID-0, an array of enriched Zn$^{82}$Se scintillating calorimeters, is the first large mass demonstrator of this technology. The detector started data-taking in 2017 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso with the aim of proving that dual read-out of light and heat allows for an efficient suppression of the {\alpha} background. In this paper we describe the software tools we developed for the analysis of scintillating calorimeters and we demonstrate that this technology allows to reach an unprecedented background for cryogenic calorimeters., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures

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2018
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18. CUORE: first results and prospects

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A. Leder, A. Bersani, T. Wise, D. Santone, Giovanni Benato, Ioan Dafinei, M. Faverzani, Y. u. G. Kolomensky, Ettore Fiorini, J. S. Wilson, L. Taffarello, Oliviero Cremonesi, Andrea Giachero, C. Pagliarone, Laura Cardani, V. Palmieri, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Eric B. Norman, Silvio Morganti, T. D. Gutierrez, F. Terranova, T. Napolitano, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, M. Biassoni, S. S. Nagorny, Vivek Singh, N. Chott, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, K. Alfonso, Luigi Cappelli, Davide Chiesa, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, M. Vignati, K. E. Lim, A. Drobizhev, H. Z. Huang, L. Zanotti, Lindley Winslow, Nicholas Scielzo, Lorenzo Cassina, Laura Gladstone, Deqing Fang, C. Brofferio, Claudia Nones, J. Schmidt, Hongwei Wang, Carlo Ligi, K. Wilson, R. J. Creswick, M. A. Franceschi, T. O'Donnell, C. Rusconi, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, Claudio Gotti, Marco Pallavicini, L. Pattavina, Irene Nutini, N. Casali, Yu-Gang Ma, G. Pessina, M. M. Deninno, F. Reindl, Lucia Canonica, F. Bellini, Guoqiang Zhang, V. Novati, G. Keppel, Ke Han, A. Branca, Reina H. Maruyama, Stefano Pirro, L. Marini, D. D'Aguanno, Y. Mei, M. Sakai, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, M. I. Martínez, A. Giuliani, N. Moggi, V. Dompè, Jeremy S. Cushman, C. Pira, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Dell'Oro, A. Nucciotti, Claudia Tomei, C. Alduino, S. Zimmermann, S. Copello, S. L. Wagaarachchi, Paolo Carniti, Stefano Zucchelli, C. Bucci, B. S. Wang, O. Azzolini, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, C. Rosenfeld, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, Emanuele Ferri, Monica Sisti, C. J. Davis, A. Camacho, Maria Laura Di Vacri, B. Schmidt, A. Caminata, M. Pavan, Sergio Di Domizio, A. D'Addabbo, S. J. Freedman, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Novati, V, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Bari, G, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D'Addabbo, A, D'Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gladstone, L, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Huang, H, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Ma, Y, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Reindl, F, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Schmidt, B, Schmidt, J, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Taffarello, L, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Wang, H, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zhang, G, Zimmermann, S, and Zucchelli, S

Subjects
7. Clean energy, law.invention, crystal, Nuclear physics, CUORE, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Cherenkov, Sensitivity (control systems), talk: Uppsala 2017/09/25, Cherenkov radiation, scintillation counter, Physics, lifetime, Scintillation, background, Bolometer, sensitivity, Upgrade, cryogenics, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Cryogenic detector, Scintillating bolometer, Scintillation counter, upgrade, upper limit, experimental results
Abstract

International audience; CUORE is the first bolometric tonne-scale experiment aiming at the investigation of neutrinoless double-beta (0$\nu$2$\beta$) decay of $^{130}$Te. The cryogenic commissioning followed by the detector installation and cool down took place during 2016. After the optimisation of all the detectors, the data-taking started in spring 2017. We report about the results of the first dataset acquired in May, which led to a limit on the 0$\nu$2$\beta$ half-life of $^{130}$Te of 6.6$\times$10$^{24}$ yr. An upgrade of CUORE, named CUPID, is planned to improve the 0$\nu$2$\beta$-decay sensitivity via passive and active background reduction and crystal enrichment. Some technologies for CUPID are currently under study and two of them are presented here, involving the detection of Cherenkov and scintillation light emitted by enriched $^{130}$TeO$_2$ and Li$^{100}_2$MoO$_4$ crystals respectively. This will allow us to reject the currently dominant a background.

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2017
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19. Initial performance of the CUORE detector

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D. Santone, L. Zanotti, Carlo Ligi, Ettore Fiorini, L. Gladstone, N. Chott, K. Wilson, H. Z. Huang, Lorenzo Cassina, T. Wise, C. Pagliarone, M. Faverzani, G. Keppel, K. E. Lim, N. D. Scielzo, Stuart Freedman, R. J. Creswick, A. Drobizhev, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, K. Alfonso, M. L. Di Vacri, Davide Chiesa, L. Canonica, Y. Mei, M. A. Franceschi, B. Schmidt, L. Marini, L. Taffarello, Monica Sisti, H. W. Wang, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, T. O'Donnell, B. S. Wang, A. Bersani, A. Giuliani, Virendra Singh, O. Azzolini, S. Morganti, M. Sakai, S. Copello, M. Pavan, Y. G. Ma, M. M. Deninno, S. S. Nagorny, Paolo Carniti, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, S. Zimmermann, C. Pira, I. Dafinei, John Wilson, Claudio Gotti, F. Bellini, V. Palmieri, N. Moggi, C. Rosenfeld, V. Novati, Silvia Capelli, Samuele Sangiorgio, S. L. Wagaarachchi, Massimiliano Nastasi, S. Zucchelli, A. Nucciotti, Lindley Winslow, Eric B. Norman, C. Alduino, Oliviero Cremonesi, A. Giachero, A. D'Addabbo, Guoqiang Zhang, T. Napolitano, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Stefano Dell'Oro, S. Pirro, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, Miriam Lucio Martinez, D. Q. Fang, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, Jeremy S. Cushman, Emanuele Ferri, M. Biassoni, N. Casali, D. D'Aguanno, C. J. Davis, F. Reindl, Ke Han, A. Branca, Reina H. Maruyama, L. Pattavina, Giovanni Benato, Irene Nutini, A. Camacho, J. Schmidt, C. Nones, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. Di Domizio, F. Terranova, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, Laura Cardani, Marco Pallavicini, B. K. Fujikawa, Massimiliano Clemenza, Stefano Pozzi, Carlo Cosmelli, G. Pessina, M. Vignati, C. Brofferio, C. Rusconi, A. Leder, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Cushman, J, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Bari, G, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, D'Addabbo, A, D'Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Domizio, S, Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gladstone, L, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Huang, H, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Ma, Y, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Reindl, F, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Schmidt, B, Schmidt, J, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Taffarello, L, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Wang, H, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zhang, G, Zimmermann, S, and Zucchelli, S

Subjects
Cryostat, History, Cryogenics, 01 natural sciences, tellurium: oxygen, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Cryogenic detector, bolometer, Education, law.invention, Nuclear physics, CUORE, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Observatory, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, activity report, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Bolometer, calibration, Computer Science Applications, cryogenics, tellurium: nuclide, performance
Abstract

CUORE, the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, is an experiment searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 130Te. The first CUORE dataset was acquired in May and June 2017 and consisted of 10.6 kg-yr of TeO2 exposure, with several days of calibration data before and after the physics dataset. We discuss here the initial performance of the CUORE detector and cryostat in this first dataset.

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2017
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20. CUPID-0: A Cryogenic Calorimeter with Particle Identification for Double Beta Decay Search

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A. D'Addabbo, K. Schaeffner, Oliviero Cremonesi, Lorenzo Cassina, S. Di Domizio, L. Pagnanini, V. Palmieri, Simone Capelli, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, Massimiliano Clemenza, D. Orlandi, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, G. Keppel, M. Vignati, V. Pettinacci, D. R. Artusa, S. Morganti, Stefano Pirro, Stefano Nisi, M. Pavan, M. L. Di Vacri, I. Dafinei, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, C. Brofferio, L. Sinkunaite, Massimiliano Nastasi, M. Maino, Claudio Gotti, Paolo Carniti, L. Gironi, S. S. Nagorny, C. Rusconi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, M. T. Barrera, N. Casali, L. Pattavina, F. Orio, F. Reindl, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, O. Azzolini, A. Giuliani, A. Camacho, M. Beretta, M. Biassoni, Lucia Canonica, F. Bellini, A. S. Zolotarova, C. Nones, A. Puiu, Marco Pallavicini, G. Pessina, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Cardani, L, Artusa, D, Azzolini, O, Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D’Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, di Vacri, M, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Reindl, F, Rusconi, C, Schaeffner, K, Sinkunaite, L, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, double beta decay, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, helium: background, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), thermal detectors, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, activity report, Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Resolution (electron density), zinc, neutrino physic, double-beta decay, Calorimeter, calorimeter: cryogenics, scintillation counter: crystal, High Energy Physics::Experiment, selenium: nuclide, particle identification, Energy (signal processing), FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE, performance
Abstract

International audience; With their excellent energy resolution, efficiency, and intrinsic radio-purity, cryogenic calorimeters are primed for the search of neutrino-less double beta decay (0nDBD). The sensitivity of these devices could be further increased by discriminating the dominant alpha background from the expected beta-like signal. The CUPID-0 collaboration aims at demonstrating that the measurement of the scintillation light produced by the absorber crystals allows for particle identification and, thus, for a complete rejection of the alpha background. The CUPID-0 detector, assembled in 2016 and now in data-taking, consists of 26 Zn$^{82}$ Se scintillating calorimeters for about $2 \times 10^{25}$ 0nDBD emitters. In this contribution we present the preliminary results obtained with the detector and the perspectives for a next generation project.

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2017
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22. CUORE crystal validation runs: Results on radioactive contamination and extrapolation to CUORE background

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S. Newman, M. Carrettoni, L. Pattavina, M. Balata, S. Kraft, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, C. Arnaboldi, Stuart J. Freedman, C. Salvioni, R. J. Creswick, F. Alessandria, M. I. Martínez, D. Lenz, Eric B. Norman, E. Longo, X. Z. Cai, N. Xu, G. Bari, A. Woodcraft, I. C. Bandac, M. Pavan, Kareem Kazkaz, D. Schaeffer, E. Fiorini, A. Giachero, F. Orio, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, Massimiliano Clemenza, B. S. Wang, Alan R. Smith, D. Q. Fang, V. Palmieri, Giorgio Frossati, Simone Capelli, C. Rusconi, C. Brofferio, H. Z. Huang, Silvio Morganti, D. Orlandi, S. Zucchelli, F. Rimondi, B. X. Zhu, G. Terenziani, C. Nones, A. Dally, Cristián Martínez, A. Bryant, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Ioan Dafinei, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. Biassoni, C. A. Whitten, Raffaele Ardito, Yu. G. Kolomensky, L. Gironi, Y. L. Li, K. M. Heeger, E. Previtali, L. Canonica, Giulio Maier, Claudia Tomei, F. T. Avignone, X. Liu, T. I. Banks, L. Foggetta, S. Trentalange, M. M. Deninno, V. Rampazzo, A. Bersani, A. de Waard, Nicholas Scielzo, N. Moggi, F. Bellini, Marco Pallavicini, N. Chott, R. W. Kadel, E. Andreotti, S. Di Domizio, G. Pessina, C. Zarra, Laura Cardani, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, A. Nucciotti, L. Zanotti, W. D. Tian, M. Vignati, Marisa Pedretti, Larissa M. Ejzak, A. De Biasi, G. Ventura, H. A. Farach, Claudio Gotti, T. Bloxham, T. Wise, C. Maiano, L. Taffarello, H. W. Wang, C. Cosmelli, Yu-Gang Ma, C. Rosenfeld, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, R. Faccini, L. Kogler, Koichi Ichimura, E. Guardincerri, M. P. Decowski, J. L. Ouellet, L. Carbone, F. Stivanello, S. Pirro, G. Keppel, Monica Sisti, A. Giuliani, Alessandria, F, Andreotti, E, Ardito, R, Arnaboldi, C, Avignone, F, Balata, M, Bandac, I, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Bloxham, T, Brofferio, C, Bryant, A, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carrettoni, M, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, De Biasi, A, Decowski, M, Deninno, M, de Waard, A, Di Domizio, S, Ejzak, L, Faccini, R, Fang, D, Farach, H, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Foggetta, L, Freedman, S, Frossati, G, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Guardincerri, E, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Huang, H, Ichimura, K, Kadel, R, Kazkaz, K, Keppel, G, Kogler, L, Kolomensky, Y, Kraft, S, Lenz, D, Li, Y, Liu, X, Longo, E, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maier, G, Martinez, C, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Newman, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rampazzo, V, Rimondi, F, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Salvioni, C, Sangiorgio, S, Schaeffer, D, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Stivanello, F, Taffarello, L, Terenziani, G, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Whitten, C, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Xu, N, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhu, B, Zucchelli, S, CSNSM PS2, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IoP (FNWI), Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam, GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI), Faculty of Science, Other Research IHEF (IoP, FNWI), F. Alessandria, E. Andreotti, R. Ardito, C. Arnaboldi, F.T. Avignone III, M. Balata, I. Bandac, T.I. Bank, G. Bari, J. Beeman, F. Bellini, A. Bersani, M. Biassoni, T. Bloxham, C. Brofferio, A. Bryant, C. Bucci, X.Z. Cai, L. Canonica, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, L. Cardani, M. Carrettoni, N. Chott, M. Clemenza, C. Cosmelli, O. Cremonesi, R.J. Creswick, I. Dafinei, A. Dally, A. De Biasi, M.P. Decowski, M.M. Deninno, A. de Waard, S. Di Domizio, L. Ejzak, R. Faccini, D.Q. Fang, H.A. Farach, E. Ferri, F. Ferroni, E. Fiorini, L. Foggetta, S.J. Freedman, G. Frossati, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, E. Guardincerri, T.D. Gutierrez, E.E. Haller, K. Han, K.M. Heeger, H.Z. Huang, K. Ichimura, R. Kadel, K. Kazkaz, G. Keppel, L. Kogler, Yu.G. Kolomensky, S. Kraft, D. Lenz, Y.L. Li, X. Liu, E. Longo, Y.G. Ma, C. Maiano, G. Maier, C. Martinez, M. Martinez, R.H. Maruyama, N. Moggi, S. Morganti, S. Newman, S. Nisi, C. None, E.B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, F. Orio, D. Orlandi, J.L. Ouellet, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, V. Rampazzo, F. Rimondi, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, C. Salvioni, S. Sangiorgio, D. Schaeffer, N.D. Scielzo, M. Sisti, A.R. Smith, F. Stivanello, L. Taffarello, G. Terenziani, W.D. Tian, C. Tomei, S. Trentalange, G. Ventura, M. Vignati, B.S. Wang, H.W. Wang, C.A. Whitten Jr., T. Wise, A. Woodcraft, N. Xu, L. Zanotti, C. Zarra, B.X. Zhu, and S. Zucchelli

Subjects
Extrapolation, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, CUORE, ESPERIMENTO CUORE, 0103 physical sciences, Radioactive contamination, radioactive contamination, tellurium dioxide, double beta decay, Quality monitoring, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclide, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Tellurium dioxide, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radioactive contamination DETECTORS, Double beta decay, Chinese academy of sciences, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
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The CUORE Crystal Validation Runs (CCVRs) have been carried out since the end of 2008 at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories, in order to test the performances and the radiopurity of the TeO$_2$ crystals produced at SICCAS (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for the CUORE experiment. In this work the results of the first 5 validation runs are presented. Results have been obtained for bulk contaminations and surface contaminations from several nuclides. An extrapolation to the CUORE background has been performed., 11 pages, 8 figures

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2012
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23. 0νββ decay: the CUPID-0 experiment

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P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, G. Keppel, Marta Martínez, A. S. Zolotarova, Jeffrey W. Beeman, S. Di Domizio, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, Massimiliano Clemenza, Oliviero Cremonesi, Laura Cardani, S. Morganti, Stefano Pozzi, Paolo Carniti, V. Pettinacci, M. Beretta, M. Vignati, Stefano Pirro, C. Brofferio, L. Pattavina, M. Maino, K. Schäffner, L. Canonica, C. Rusconi, C. Bucci, A. D'Addabbo, O. Azzolini, A. Giuliani, M. L. Di Vacri, Claudio Gotti, F. Bellini, D. Orlandi, I. Dafinei, L. Gironi, M. T. Barrera, Simone Capelli, N. Casali, S. S. Nagorny, L. Pagnanini, Stefano Nisi, V. Palmieri, E. Olivieri, M. Biassoni, Marco Pallavicini, Lorenzo Cassina, G. Pessina, C. Nones, A. Puiu, F. Reindl, Massimiliano Nastasi, M. Pavan, Azzolini, O, Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Olivieri, E, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Reindl, F, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A

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Semileptonic decay, Physics, History, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Phonon, Bolometer, Measure (physics), 01 natural sciences, Signal, Computer Science Applications, Education, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Physics and Astronomy, law, 0103 physical sciences, Scintillation counter, Particle, Ton, 010306 general physics, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
Abstract

CUPID-0 is an array of 24 Zn82Se scintillating bolometers used to search for the 0νββ decay of 82Se. It is the first large mass 0νββ experiment exploiting a double read-out technique: the phonon signal to accurately measure particle energies and the light signal to reject the α-induced background. Its success might open the road to a next generation project of ton mass scale, CUPID. The array is in operation at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso since the beginning of 2017, in this paper we present the preliminary results obtained with an exposure of 10.45 kg• y.

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2018
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25. The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at LNGS

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Guimin Zhang, C. Pira, R. J. Creswick, A. Leder, S. Di Domizio, V. Pettinacci, B. X. Zhu, Stefano Pirro, Laura Cardani, D. Santone, J. S. Wilson, Ioan Dafinei, C. Rosenfeld, Stefano Dell'Oro, P. Gorla, L. Pattavina, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, S. L. Wagaarachchi, E. V. Hansen, C. Cosmelli, B. K. Fujikawa, Emanuele Ferri, X. Liu, F. Orio, L. Carbone, S. Zimmermann, C. Pagliarone, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, A. Bersani, G. Keppe, G. Pessina, C. J. Davis, Massimiliano Clemenza, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. Pozzi, A. Camacho, Monica Sisti, N. Moggi, B. S. Wang, C. Rusconi, T. Wise, C. Brofferio, P. J. Mosteiro, T. I. Banks, M. M. Deninno, M. Vignati, C. Nones, O. Azzolini, G. Piperno, Samuele Sangiorgio, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, H. W. Wang, N. D. Scielzo, Stefano Zucchelli, N. Chott, C. Alduino, M. Faverzani, L. Taffarello, Lucia Canonica, F. Bellini, L. Zanotti, Davide Chiesa, K. Alfonso, M. L. Di Vacri, K. E. Lim, Lorenzo Cassina, V. Singh, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Lindley Winslow, M. Maino, Jeffrey W. Beeman, H. Z. Huang, M. Tenconi, L. Marini, Kevin Hickerson, S. Copello, E. Fiorini, Silvia Capelli, Paolo Carniti, A. D'Addabbo, A. Giuliani, Jonathan Ouellet, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, S. J. Freedman, G. Bari, S. Trentalange, R. W. Kadel, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, Marco Pallavicini, G. Fernandes, D. R. Artusa, S. Morganti, Jeremy S. Cushman, Carlo Ligi, A. R. Smith, C. Gotti, A. Woodcraft, A. Giachero, D. Q. Fang, L. Gladstone, T. D. Gutierrez, F. Terranova, A. Drobizhev, M. A. Franceschi, Y. Mei, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, E. E. Haller, Ke Han, A. Branca, Reina H. Maruyama, N. Casali, Oliviero Cremonesi, T. O'Donnell, Yu-Gang Ma, V. Palmieri, Eric B. Norman, T. Napolitano, M. Biassoni, Bravina, L, Foka, Y, Kabana, S, D'Addabbo, A, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gladstone, L, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maino, M, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Mosteiro, P, Napolitano, T, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, Zimmermann, S, Zucchelli, S, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), D'Addabbo, A., Bravina, L., Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Artusa, D. R., Avignone, F. T., Azzolini, O., Banks, T. I., Bari, G., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., A., Camacho, Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X. G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cushman, J. S., Dafinei, I., Davis, C. J., Dell'Oro, S., Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Fang, D. Q., Faverzani, M., G., Fernande, Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M. A., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gladstone, L., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E., Han, K., Hansen, E., Heeger, K. M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K. P., Huang, H. Z., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Leder, A., Ligi, C., Lim, K. E., Liu, X., Ma, Y. G., Maino, M., Marini, L., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Mosteiro, P. J., Napolitano, T., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sangiorgio, S., Santone, D., Scielzo, N. D., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Vignati, M., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, B. S., Wang, H. W., Wilson, J., Winslow, L. A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zhang, G. Q., Zhu, B. X., S., Zimmermann, Zucchelli, S., Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière ( CSNSM ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) ( DPP ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, and Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP)

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Cryostat, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, FOS: Physical sciences, double beta decay, Te-130, fabrication, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, tellurium: oxygen, crystal, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), CUORE, bolometer, law, Observatory, Double Beta Decay: 0 neutrino | CUORE Experiment | | CUORE-0 Experiment | Activity report | performance | bolometer | cryogenics | crystal | tellurium: oxygen | fabrication, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, activity report, Physics, Bolometer, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), cryogenics, performance
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 (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) 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 0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta} 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., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, ICNFP2016 Proceeding

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2017
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26. Current Status and Future Perspectives of the LUCIFER Experiment

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S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, C. Nones, M. Vignati, I. Dafinei, S. S. Nagorny, E. Previtali, Massimiliano Clemenza, F. Ferroni, C. Gotti, Davide Chiesa, G. Pessina, M. Maino, Jeffrey W. Beeman, F. Bellini, Andrea Giachero, F. Orio, G. Piperno, C. Rusconi, N. Casali, M. Tenconi, P. Benetti, L. Gironi, Stefano Nisi, A. Giuliani, Claudia Tomei, L. Pattavina, S. Pirro, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Benetti, P, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gotti, C, Maino, M, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orio, F, Pattavina, L, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rusconi, C, Tenconi, M, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
LOW-NOISE, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Article Subject, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FRONT-END SYSTEM, Dark matter, Elementary particle, MASS, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Mathematical Sciences, Nuclear physics, CUORE, neutrino physics, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Particle physic, SCINTILLATING BOLOMETERS, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, STABILIZATION SYSTEM, Physics, Scintillation, LIGHT DETECTORS, MACRO-BOLOMETERS, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY, CUORICINO, lcsh:QC1-999, MAJORANA, Physical Sciences, LOW-FREQUENCY, Neutrino, lcsh:Physics
Abstract

In the field of fundamental particle physics, the neutrino has become more and more important in the last few years, since the discovery of its mass. In particular, the ultimate nature of the neutrino (if it is a Dirac or a Majorana particle) plays a crucial role not only in neutrino physics, but also in the overall framework of fundamental particle interactions and in cosmology. The only way to disentangle its ultimate nature is to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay. The idea of LUCIFER is to combine the bolometric technique proposed for the CUORE experiment with the bolometric light detection technique used in cryogenic dark matter experiments. The bolometric technique allows an extremely good energy resolution while its combination with the scintillation detection offers an ultimate tool for background rejection. The goal of LUCIFER is not only to build a background-free small-scale experiment but also to directly prove the potentiality of this technique. Preliminary tests on several detectors containing different interesting DBD emitters have clearly demonstrated the excellent background rejection capabilities that arise from the simultaneous, independent, double readout of heat and scintillation light. © 2013 J. W. Beeman et al.

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2013
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27. New experimental limits on the α decays of lead isotopes

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S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, L. Pattavina, M. Vignati, S. Pirro, F. Orio, L. Gironi, E. Previtali, N. Casali, Stefano Nisi, E. Fiorini, G. Pessina, Jeffrey W. Beeman, F. Bellini, G. Piperno, Claudia Tomei, C. Rusconi, S. S. Nagorny, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Di Domizio, S, Fiorini, E, Gironi, L, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Orio, F, Pattavina, L, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rusconi, C, Tomei, C, and Vignati, M

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Bolometer, Alpha (ethology), FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Crystal, nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Beta (velocity), particle and nuclear physics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), heavy ions, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, nuclear fusion, Physics, Scintillation, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Alpha particle, hadrons, Alpha decays, Alpha decay
Abstract

For the first time ancient Roman lead was used to grow a crystal of PbWO4, and this crystal has subsequently been used as a cryogenic particle detector. The new device provides independent readout of heat and scintillation light and is able to discriminate between β/γ interactions and alpha interactions down to few keV. Stringent limits on the α decays of the lead isotopes are presented. In particular a limit of T1/2 > 1.4 · 1020 y at a 90% C.L. was evaluated for the α decay of 204Pb to 200Hg. © Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2013.

Published
2013

28. Performances of a large mass ZnMoO4 scintillating bolometer for a next generation 0νDBD experiment

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S. S. Nagorny, C. Brofferio, C. Rusconi, S. Pirro, G. Piperno, F. Bellini, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, M. Vignati, L. Pattavina, E. Previtali, Jeffrey W. Beeman, M. Pavan, I. Dafinei, F. Orio, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, N. Casali, E. Gorello, G. Pessina, Oliviero Cremonesi, L. Gironi, E.N. Galashov, V.N. Shlegel, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Brofferio, C, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Cremonesi, O, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gorello, E, Galashov, E, Gironi, L, Nagorny, S, Orio, F, Pavan, M, Pattavina, L, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rusconi, C, Shlegel, V, Tomei, C, and Vignati, M

Subjects
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Zinc molybdate, Atomic, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Crystal, chemistry.chemical_compound, Particle and Plasma Physics, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Beta (velocity), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, Quantum Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Molecular, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Full width at half maximum, chemistry, Molibdenum, double beta decay, scintillating bolometer
Abstract

We present the performances of a 330g zinc molybdate (ZnMoO 4) crystal working as scintillating bolometer as a possible candidate for a next generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo. The energy resolution, evaluated at the 2615keV γ-line of 208Tl, is 6.3keV FWHM. The internal radioactive contaminations of the ZnMoO 4 were evaluated as

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2012
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29. First bolometric measurement of the two neutrino double beta decay of100Mo with a ZnMoO4crystals array

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S. S. Nagorny, N. Ferreiro Iachellini, Oliviero Cremonesi, C. Gotti, F. Ferroni, L. Gironi, E.N. Galashov, N. Casali, G. Piperno, E. Previtali, Claudia Tomei, Ioan Dafinei, S. Pirro, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, F. Bellini, C. Rusconi, M. Vignati, G. Pessina, F. Orio, L. Pattavina, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Cardani, L, Gironi, L, Iachellini, N, Pattavina, L, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Casali, N, Cremonesi, O, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Galashov, E, Gotti, C, Nagorny, S, Orio, F, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rusconi, C, Tomei, C, and Vignati, M

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, two neutrino double beta decay, Bolometer, FOS: Physical sciences, 3. Good health, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Crystal, cryogenic detector, law, Double beta decay, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, Monte Carlo simulation, Intensity (heat transfer), Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

The large statistics collected during the operation of a ZnMoO$_4$ array, for a total exposure of 1.3 kg $\cdot$ day of $^{100}$Mo, allowed the first bolometric observation of the two neutrino double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo. The observed spectrum of each crystal was reconstructed taking into account the different background contributions due to environmental radioactivity and internal contamination. The analysis of coincidences between the crystals allowed the assignment of constraints to the intensity of the different background sources, resulting in a reconstruction of the measured spectrum down to an energy of $\sim$300 keV. The half-life extracted from the data is T$_{1/2}^{2\nu}$= [7.15 $\pm$ 0.37 (stat) $\pm$ 0.66 (syst)] $\cdot$ 10$^{18}$ y., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure, Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

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2014
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30. Results from the CUORE experiment

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Carlo Cosmelli, C. Pagliarone, L. Zanotti, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Carlo Ligi, L. Gironi, S. S. Nagorny, A. Bersani, T. Wise, N. Casali, Y. Mei, K. Wilson, F. T. Avignone, L. Taffarello, Claudio Gotti, Stefano Dell'Oro, M. Clemenza, M. Sakai, F. Reindl, G. Keppel, Lindley Winslow, Xi-Guang Cao, Daniel Speller, C. Brofferio, C. Rosenfeld, Luigi Cappelli, C. Bucci, M. Pavan, K. M. Heeger, Jonathan Ouellet, Giovanni Benato, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, G. Bari, Emanuele Ferri, R. J. Creswick, L. Pattavina, Lorenzo Cassina, T. O'Donnell, C. Pira, H. Z. Huang, C. J. Davis, Silvia Morganti, S. L. Wagaarachchi, L. Marini, A. Leder, Massimliano Nastasi, Oliviero Cremonesi, V. Novati, T. D. Gutierrez, J. Johnston, A. Campani, F. Terranova, Stefano Pirro, A. Giuliani, Vivek Singh, D. D'Aguanno, S. Copello, V. Palmieri, D. Santone, Irene Nutini, Paolo Carniti, Ioan Dafinei, Guoqiang Zhang, Laura Cardani, B. K. Fujikawa, Nicholas Scielzo, Hongwei Wang, Yu-Gang Ma, Stefano Pozzi, N. Moggi, Monica Sisti, Davide Chiesa, Eric B. Norman, S. Zimmermann, Ettore Fiorini, J. S. Wilson, Andrea Giachero, C. Rusconi, M. I. Martínez, M. Vignati, Sergio Di Domizio, T. Napolitano, Samuele Sangiorgio, A. D'Addabbo, S. J. Freedman, Claudia Nones, Ettore Previtali, Silvia Capelli, D. Q. Adams, M. M. Deninno, A. Nucciotti, K. Alfonso, S. Zucchelli, Ke Han, A. Branca, Reina H. Maruyama, B. Welliver, B. Schmidt, A. Caminata, C. Alduino, M. Faverzani, Y. u. G. Kolomensky, N. Chott, Deqing Fang, B. S. Wang, M. Biassoni, Lucia Canonica, O. Azzolini, F. Bellini, Jeremy S. Cushman, Claudia Tomei, V. Dompè, A. Drobizhev, M. A. Franceschi, R. G. Huang, Laura Gladstone, A. Puiu, Marco Pallavicini, G. Pessina, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CUORE, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Moggi, N, Adams, D, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Bari, G, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Caminata, A, Campani, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D'Addabbo, A, D'Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fu, Z, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gruszko, J, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Huang, R, Huang, H, Johnston, J, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Ma, Y, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Schmidt, B, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Taffarello, L, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Wang, H, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zhang, G, Zimmermann, S, Zucchelli, S, Avignone III, F, D’Addabbo, A, D’Aguanno, D, Dell’Oro, S, Dompè, V, Gladstone, L, O’Donnell, T, Palmieri, V, Reindl, F, Moggi N., Adams D.Q., Alduino C., Alfonso K., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Bari G., Bellini F., Benato G., Bersani A., Biassoni M., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Caminata A., Campani A., Canonica L., Cao X.G., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cassina L., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cushman J.S., D'Addabbo A., D'Aguanno D., Dafinei I., Davis C.J., Dell'Oro S., Deninno M.M., Di Domizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Fang D.Q., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi M.A., Freedman S.J., Fu Z., Fujikawa B.K., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gruszko J., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Heeger K.M., Hennings-Yeomans R., Huang R.G., Huang H.Z., Johnston J., Keppel G., Kolomensky Yu.G., Leder A., Ligi C., Ma Y.G., Marini L., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mei Y., Morganti S., Nagorny S.S., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novati V., Nucciotti A., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Ouellet J.L., Pagliarone C.E., Pallavicini M., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pessina G., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sakai M., Sangiorgio S., Santone D., Schmidt B., Scielzo N.D., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Taffarello L., Terranova F., Tomei C., Vignati M., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang B.S., Wang H.W., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Wise T., Zanotti L., Zhang G.Q., Zimmermann S., and Zucchelli S.

Subjects
History, noise, detector: crystal, Dark matter, energy resolution, double beta decay, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Cuore experiment, Neutrinoless double beta decay, 7. Clean energy, Lower limit, Half lives - Lower limits - Tellurium compounds, dark matter, law.invention, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Cryogenic detector, bolometer, Education, crystal, Nuclear physics, CUORE, Effective energy, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, Observatory, Double beta decay, tellurium, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], double-beta decay: (2neutrino), Neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton number: violation, talk: Yamagata 2018/05/28, Physics, Neutinoless double beta decay, background, Bolometer, Beta decay, Computer Science Applications, Gran Sasso, observatory, cryogenic calorimeter, double beta decay, mass: Majorana, axion, cryogenic calorimeter, tellurium: nuclide, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], experimental results
Abstract

International audience; The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment operated at about 10\,mK reaching the ton-scale. CUORE main goal is the search for neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{130}$Te, while it is suitable also for other kinds of rare event searches, such as dark matter and axions. The detector is situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, and consists in an array of 988 TeO$_2$ crystals, being both the detector and the source of the decay. Since the beginning of 2017, CUORE operations had both phases for physics data taking and campaigns of detector optimization to obtain the maximum from its potential. Here we briefly discuss one of the procedures for the optimization of the detector regarding noise reduction and report the achievements of CUORE concerning energy resolution and background in the region of interest after the first few months of data taking. Finally we conclude by examining the results from our first neutrinoless double beta decay analysis published at the beginning of 2018, which with a total TeO$_2$ exposure of 86.3 kg$\cdot$y allowed to place a lower limit on the decay half-life of $T^{0\nu}_{1/2}(^{130}\mathrm{Te})>1.3\times10^{25}\,{\rm yr}$ (90% C.L.) .

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31. First array of enriched Zn$$^{82}$$ 82 Se bolometers to search for double beta decay

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S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, L. Pattavina, N. Casali, Massimiliano Nastasi, K. Schaeffner, A. Giuliani, M. Vignati, S. Pirro, Massimiliano Clemenza, Lorenzo Cassina, Jeffrey W. Beeman, S. Pozzi, F. Orio, S. Morganti, L. Pagnanini, A. Balzoni, C. Brofferio, Angelo Cruciani, Marco Pallavicini, C. Gotti, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. Mancuso, Alejandro E. Camacho, F. Bellini, G. Pessina, L. Gironi, A. D'Addabbo, M. L. Di Vacri, Ioan Dafinei, F. Ferroni, C. Nones, A. Puiu, Miriam Lucio Martinez, C. Tomei, V. Palmieri, D. Orlandi, A. S. Zolotarova, V. Pettinacci, Paolo Carniti, M. Biassoni, E. Previtali, S. S. Nagorny, M. Maino, Stefano Nisi, M. Pavan, C. Rusconi, and Simone Capelli

Subjects
Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Bolometer, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Realization (systems), Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

The R&D activity performed during the last years proved the potential of ZnSe scintillating bolometers to the search for neutrino-less double beta decay, motivating the realization of the first large-mass experiment based on this technology: CUPID-0. The isotopic enrichment in $^{82}$Se, the Zn$^{82}$Se crystals growth, as well as the light detectors production have been accomplished, and the experiment is now in construction at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). In this paper we present the results obtained testing the first three Zn$^{82}$Se crystals operated as scintillating bolometers, and we prove that their performance in terms of energy resolution, background rejection capability and intrinsic radio-purity complies with the requirements of CUPID-0.

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32. Low energy analysis techniques for CUORE

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A. Giachero, S. Di Domizio, D. Q. Fang, S. L. Wagaarachchi, Laura Cardani, Vasundhara Singh, Alan R. Smith, C. Rosenfeld, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, N. Casali, A. Woodcraft, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, Claudio Gotti, C. Tomei, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, M. Faverzani, M. M. Deninno, B. Schmidt, Oliviero Cremonesi, C. Nones, M. Vignati, B. S. Wang, O. Azzolini, A. Camacho, D. D'Aguanno, F. Bellini, H. Z. Huang, L. Zanotti, Massimiliano Clemenza, F. Terranova, Carlo Cosmelli, Nicholas Scielzo, A. Bersani, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, S. Pirro, E. V. Hansen, C. J. Davis, L. Gladstone, V. Palmieri, Lorenzo Cassina, A. D'Addabbo, Guimin Zhang, Marco Pallavicini, M. I. Martínez, C. Brofferio, P. J. Mosteiro, Eric B. Norman, R. J. Creswick, Y. Mei, L. Pattavina, T. Napolitano, M. Sakai, M. Maino, R. Hennings-Yeomans, G. Pessina, S. Zucchelli, C. Rusconi, Xi-Guang Cao, G. Piperno, C. Pagliarone, K. M. Heeger, H. W. Wang, C. Pira, M. Biassoni, L. Gironi, T. O'Donnell, Massimiliano Nastasi, Lindley Winslow, F. T. Avignone, L. Canonica, L. Marini, J. Schmidt, Ke Han, V. Novati, A. Branca, Reina H. Maruyama, Stuart J. Freedman, Jeremy S. Cushman, S. Morganti, Giovanni Benato, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, T. Wise, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, D. Santone, Ioan Dafinei, A. Leder, M. Pavan, Davide Chiesa, K. E. Lim, L. Taffarello, S. Zimmermann, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Yu-Gang Ma, James R. Wilson, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Carlo Ligi, Monica Sisti, A. Giuliani, N. Chott, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, A. Drobizhev, M. A. Franceschi, S. Copello, Paolo Carniti, Ettore Fiorini, K. Alfonso, M. L. Di Vacri, Stefano Dell'Oro, N. Moggi, Samuele Sangiorgio, A. Nucciotti, C. Alduino, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière ( CSNSM ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) ( DPP ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Gladstone, Laura, Winslow, Lindley, Hansen, E., Leder, Alexander Friedrich, Cononica, Lucia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Artusa, D. R., Avignone, F. T., Azzolini, O., Bari, G., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., A., Camacho, Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X. G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cushman, J. S., D’Addabbo, A., D’Aguanno, D., Dafinei, I., Davis, C. J., Dell’Oro, S., Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Fang, D. Q., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M. A., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gladstone, L., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E., Han, K., Heeger, K. M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Huang, H. Z., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Leder, A., Ligi, C., Lim, K. E., Ma, Y. G., Maino, M., Marini, L., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Mosteiro, P. J., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novati, V., Nucciotti, A., O’Donnell, T., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pessina, G., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sakai, M., Sangiorgio, S., Santone, D., Schmidt, B., Schmidt, J., Scielzo, N. D., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Taffarello, L., Terranova, F., Tomei, C., Vignati, M., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, B. S., Wang, H. W., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Winslow, L. A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zhang, G. Q., S., Zimmermann, Zucchelli, S., Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D’Addabbo, A, D’Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell’Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gladstone, L, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Ma, Y, Maino, M, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Mosteiro, P, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Nucciotti, A, O’Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Schmidt, B, Schmidt, J, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Wang, H, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zhang, G, Zimmermann, S, Zucchelli, S, and Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP)

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, flux: time dependence, law.invention, energy: threshold, CUORE, WIMP, law, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), [ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Dark-Matter Candidate, Nuclear Experiment, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], nucleus: recoil, Physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), GEANT, tellurium: nuclide, FOS: Physical sciences, Te-130, lcsh:Astrophysics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], background: energy spectrum, tellurium: oxygen, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, engineering (miscellaneous), physics and astronomy (miscellaneous), Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), solar axions, WIMP scattering, Sensitivity (control systems), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Engineering (miscellaneous), 010306 general physics, Axion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, energy: calibration, sensitivity, Annual Modulation, monitoring, Energy: threshold | energy: calibration | background: energy spectrum | double-beta decay: (0neutrino) | trigger: efficiency | monitoring | nucleus: recoil | flux: time dependence | CUORE | sensitivity | bolometer | tellurium: nuclide | tellurium: oxygen | GEANT, trigger: efficiency, lcsh:QC770-798, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

CUORE is a tonne-scale cryogenic detector operating at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) that uses tellurium dioxide bolometers to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of130Te. CUORE is also suitable to search for low energy rare events such as solar axions or WIMP scattering, thanks to its ultra-low background and large target mass. However, to conduct such sensitive searches requires improving the energy threshold to 10 keV. In this paper, we describe the analysis techniques developed for the low energy analysis of CUORE-like detectors, using the data acquired from November 2013 to March 2015 by CUORE-0, a single-tower prototype designed to validate the assembly procedure and new cleaning techniques of CUORE. We explain the energy threshold optimization, continuous monitoring of the trigger efficiency, data and event selection, and energy calibration at low energies in detail. We also present the low energy background spectrum of CUORE-0 below 60keV. Finally, we report the sensitivity of CUORE to WIMP annual modulation using the CUORE-0 energy threshold and background, as well as an estimate of the uncertainty on the nuclear quenching factor from nuclear recoils inCUORE-0., National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSFPHY-0605119), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY-0500337), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY-0855314), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY0902171), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY-0969852), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY-1307204), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant NSF-PHY1404205), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Wisconsin Foundation, Yale University

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33. Kinetic inductance detectors as light detectors for neutrino and dark matter searches

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Carlo Cosmelli, Davide Pinci, I. Colantoni, Laura Cardani, Martino Calvo, M. Vignati, Claudia Tomei, Sergio Di Domizio, A. D'Addabbo, Silvia Masi, G. Castellano, C. Bucci, E. S. Battistelli, F. Bellini, Alessandro Coppolecchia, Paolo de Bernardis, and Angelo Cruciani

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, Kinetic inductance detectors, Detector, Dark matter, Neutrino

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