CUORE: Low-temperature techniques for neutrino physics

Year: 2003

Authors: Giuliani A., Arnaboldi C., Avignone F., Balata M., Barucci M., Beeman J., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Capelli S., Carbone L., Cebrian S., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Farach H.A., Fiorini E., Frossati G., Giugni D., Gorla P., Haller E.E., Irastorza I.G., McDonald R.J., Morales A., Negri P., Norman E.B., Nucciotti A., Palmieri V., Pasca E., Pavan M., Pedretti M., Pessina G., Pirro S., Previtali E., Sisti M., Smith A.R., Vanzini M., Ventura G., De Waard A., Zanotti L.

Autors Affiliation: Department of Sciences, University of Insubria, INFN-Milano, Coma, Italy; Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca, INFN, Milano, Italy; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States; Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, INFN, Assergi (L\’Aquila), Italy; Laboratory of Nuclear and High Energy Physics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; Kamerling Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Dept. of Material Sci. and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Lahoratort Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Leynaro (Padova), Italy; Department of Physics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; Dipartimento di Scicnze Chimiche, Fisiche e Matcmatichc, Università dell\’Insubria, I-22100 Como, Italy

Abstract: Neutrino physics represents today a hot topic in elementary particle physics, due to the observations of flavour oscillations both in the atmospheric and in the solar sector. This proves the existence of finite neutrino masses. In order to fix their absolute values, sensitive experiments on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (a rare nuclear process) must be carried on. The experiment here described, named Cryogenics Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE), can extend the neutrino mass sensitivity down to 30 meV. CUORE will consist of a large, closely packed, high-granularity array of 1000 tellurite (TeO2) low-temperature calorimeters, operated at 10 mK and with a total mass of 800 kg. The final structure of the detector and the preliminary tests are presented and discussed.

Journal/Review: PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER

Volume: 329-333 (II)      Pages from: 1570  to: 1573

KeyWords: Bolometers; Calorimeters; Cryogenics; High energy physics; Low temperature effects; Oscillations; Structure (composition), Bolometric detectors; Low temperature calorimeters; Mass sensitivity; Neutrino physics, Elementary particles
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4526(02)02299-8

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