Speaker
Description
While primarily searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{130}$Te, CUORE demonstrates that bolometric detectors have reached sufficient size and scale to track through-going particles. Novel track-reconstruction tools and analysis techniques have been developed to study track-like events in the detector, including exotic signatures such as those induced by hypothetical fractionally-charged particles (FCPs) which arise from Beyond-the-Standard Model extensions. Experiments such as CUORE compliment collider-based and bulk matter searches for FCPs by looking for track-like signatures with suppressed energy deposition, on account of their reduced electric charge. We exploit the experiment's low-background environment to report on a search for an underground flux of fractionally charged particles with CUORE.
| Poster prize | Yes |
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| Given name | Daniel |
| Surname | Mayer |
| First affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Institutional email | dmayer@mit.edu |
| Gender | Male |
| Collaboration (if any) | CUORE Collaboration |
