Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with CUORE-0 and CUOR
by
Claudia Tomei(ROMA1)
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Europe/Rome
Aula Conversi (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)
Aula Conversi
Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi
Description
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a large-scale double beta decay experiment based on cryogenic bolometers currently in the final stages of construction at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). Its primary goal is to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te and measure the Majorana neutrino mass with a projected sensitivity reaching the so-called inverted mass hierarchy region. CUORE-0 is a single CUORE-like tower, made of 52 TeO2 cryogenic bolometers for a total mass of 39 kg. CUORE-0 started taking data in spring 2013 at LNGS and reached a total exposure of 35.2 kg y. Thanks to the lower background achieved and to the improvement in energy resolution, CUORE-0 has surpassed the sensitivity of the predecessor experiment, Cuoricino. In my talk, I will present the first physics results from CUORE-0 data and discuss the status and the physics potential of CUORE.
