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Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of130Te with CUORE
- Source :
- Advances in High Energy Physics, Vol 2015 (2015), Advances in High Energy Physics
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2015.
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Abstract
- Neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is a hypothesized lepton-number-violating process that offers the only known means of asserting the possible Majorana nature of neutrino mass. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment designed to search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{130}$Te using an array of 988 TeO$_2$ crystal bolometers operated at 10 mK. The detector will contain 206 kg of $^{130}$Te and have an average energy resolution of 5 keV; the projected $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life sensitivity after five years of live time is $1.6\times 10^{26}$ y at $1\sigma$ ($9.5\times10^{25}$ y at the 90% confidence level), which corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass in the range 40--100 meV (50--130 meV). In this paper we review the experimental techniques used in CUORE as well as its current status and anticipated physics reach.<br />Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures. Published in Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 879871
- Subjects :
- Neutrinoless double-beta
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
FOS: Physical sciences
RESPONSE STABILIZATION
7. Clean energy
VALIDATION
Nuclear physics
CUORICINO
CUORE
Double beta decay
DETECTORS
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
Nuclear Experiment
Physics
BOLOMETERS
Half-life
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Beta decay
lcsh:QC1-999
3. Good health
MAJORANA
RARE EVENTS
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Nuclear and High Energy Physics. RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION
Neutrino
lcsh:Physics
Radioactive decay
Lepton
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16877365 and 16877357
- Volume :
- 2015
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in High Energy Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2c73e0b8a5cf544178696a650c18c9eb