Speaker
Description
Located underground, at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay experiment employing bolometric detectors. CUORE consists of an array of 988 TeO$_2$ crystals acting as both the source and the detector for the search of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in 206 kg of $^{130}$Te. Although the CUORE experiment is not optimized to be a particle tracker, the geometry and segmentation of CUORE allow the in-situ reconstruction of track-like events, such as cosmic-ray muons that do not get attenuated by the Gran Sasso mountains. The reconstruction of this kind of events in a 3D calorimeter lattice is a novel technique. In this poster, I present studies on the in-situ reconstruction of muon events and related induced backgrounds as well as the implications for CUPID, CUORE's successor.
| Poster prize | Yes |
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| Given name | Jorge |
| Surname | Torres |
| First affiliation | Yale University |
| Institutional email | jorge.torresespinosa@yale.edu |
| Gender | Male |
| Collaboration (if any) | CUORE/CUPID |
