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1. The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at Gran Sasso

Author: Giachero A., Artusa D. R., Avignone F. T., Azzolini O., Balata M., Banks T. I., Bari G., Beeman J., Bellini F., Bersani A., Biassoni M., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Cai X. Z., Camacho A., Caminata A., Canonica L., Cao X. G., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Carbone L., Cardani L., Casali N., Cassina L., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cushman J.S., Dafinei I., Dally A., Datskov V., Dell’Oro S., Deninno M. M., Di Domizio S., di Vacri M. L., Drobizhev A., Ejzak L., Fang D. Q., Farach H. A., Faverzani M., Fernandes G., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi M. A., Freedman S. J., Fujikawa B. K., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gutierrez T. D., Haller E. E., Han K., Heeger K. M., Hennings-Yeomans R., Hickerson K. P., Huang H. Z., Kadel R., Kazkaz K., Keppel G., Kolomensky Yu.G., Li Y.L., Ligi C., Lim K. E., Liu X., Ma Y. G., Maiano C., Maino M., Martinez M., Maruyama R. H., Mei Y., Moggi N., Morganti S., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E. B., Nucciotti A., O’Donnell T., Orio F., Orlandi D., Ouellet J. L., Pagliarone C. E., Pallavicini M., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pedretti M., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Piperno G., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Rampazzo V., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sala E., Sangiorgio S., Scielzo N. D., Sisti M., Smith A. R., Taffarello L., Tenconi M., Terranova F., Tian W. D., Tomei C., Trentalange S., Ventura G., Vignati M., Wang B. S., Wang H. W., Wielgus L., Wilson J., Winslow L. A., Wise T., Woodcraft A., Zanotti L., Zarra C., Zhang G. Q., Zhu B. X., and Zucchelli S.
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in 130Te and other rare processes. CUORE is a cryogenic detector composed of 988 TeO2 bolometers for a total mass of about 741 kg. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV·kg·y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity around 1 × 1026 y at 90% C.L. As a first step towards CUORE a smaller experiment CUORE-0, constructed to test and demonstrate the performances expected for CUORE, has been assembled and is running. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring 2013. The status and perspectives of CUORE will be discussed, and the first CUORE-0 data will be presented.
Published: 2015
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2. Neutrinoless double-beta decay search with CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments

Author: Moggi N., Artusa D. R., Avignone F. T., Azzolini O., Balata M., Banks T. I., Bari G., Beeman J., Bellini F., Bersani A., Biassoni M., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Cai X. Z., Camacho A., Caminata A., Canonica L., Cao X. G., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Carbone L., Cardani L., Casali N., Cassina L., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Creswick R. J., Cushman J. S., Dafinei I., Dally A., Datskov V., Dell’oro S., Deninno M. M., Di Domizio S., Di Vacri M. L., Drobizhev A., Ejzak L., Fang D. Q., Farach H. A., Faverzani M., Fernandes G., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi M. A., Freedman S. J., Fujikawa B. K., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gutierrez T. D., Haller E. E., Han K., Heeger K. M., Hennings-Yeomans R., Hickerson K. P., Huang H. Z., Kadel R., Keppel G., Kolomensky Yu. G., Li Y. L., Ligi C., Lim K. E., Liu X., Ma Y. G., Maiano C., Maino M., Martinez M., Maruyama R. H., Mei Y., Morganti S., Napolitano T., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E. B., Nucciotti A., O’Donnell T., Orio F., Orlandi D., Ouellet J. L., Pagliarone C. E., Pallavicini M., Palmieri V., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Piperno G., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sala E., Sangiorgio S., Santone D., Scielzo N. D., Sisti M., Smith A. R., Taffarello L., Tenconi M., Terranova F., Tian W. D., Tomei C., Trentalange S., Ventura G., Vignati M., Wang B. S., Wang H. W., Wielgus L., Wilson J., Winslow L. A., Wise T., Woodcraft A., Zanotti L., Zarra C., Zhang G. Q., Zhu B. X., and Zucchelli S.
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment designed to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decays. Observation of the process would unambiguously establish that neutrinos are Majorana particles and provide information on their absolute mass scale hierarchy. CUORE is now under construction and will consist of an array of 988 TeO2 crystal bolometers operated at 10 mK, but the first tower (CUORE-0) is already taking data. The experimental techniques used will be presented as well as the preliminary CUORE-0 results. The current status of the full-mass experiment and its expected sensitivity will then be discussed.
Published: 2015
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3. Purification of cerium, neodymium and gadolinium for low background experiments

Author: Boiko R.S., Barabash A.S., Belli P., Bernabei R., Cappella F., Cerulli R., Danevich F.A., Incicchitti A., Laubenstein M., Mokina V.M., Nisi S., Poda D.V., Polischuk O.G., and Tretyak V.I.
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Cerium, neodymium and gadolinium contain double beta active isotopes. The most interesting are 150Nd and 160Gd (promising for 0ν2β search), 136Ce (2β+ candidate with one of the highest Q2β). The main problem of compounds containing lanthanide elements is their high radioactive contamination by uranium, radium, actinium and thorium. The new generation 2β experiments require development of methods for a deep purification of lanthanides from the radioactive elements. A combination of physical and chemical methods was applied to purify cerium, neodymium and gadolinium. Liquid-liquid extraction technique was used to remove traces of Th and U from neodymium, gadolinium and for purification of cerium from Th, U, Ra and K. Co-precipitation and recrystallization methods were utilized for further reduction of the impurities. The radioactive contamination of the samples before and after the purification was tested by using ultra-low-background HPGe gamma spectrometry. As a result of the purification procedure the radioactive contamination of gadolinium oxide (a similar purification efficiency was reached also with cerium and neodymium oxides) was decreased from 0.12 Bq/kg to 0.007 Bq/kg in 228Th, from 0.04 Bq/kg to
Published: 2014
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4. Radioactivity measurements for the ERMES project at the STELLA facility

Author: Gallese B., Bella F., Balata M., Aprili P., Plastino W., Laubenstein M., Ioannucci L., and Nisi S.
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: STELLA (SubTErranean Low Level Assay) is the ultra low background facility of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories (L.N.G.S.) in Italy. It is mainly devoted to material screening and rare events physics due to its very low radioactive background. Nevertheless, also environmental samples are measured within the collaboration with the ERMES (Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring for Earth Sciences) project. After a short description of the facility some on-going applications within the ERMES project will be briefly presented. The usefulness of doing environmental radioactivity measurements in a deep underground laboratory will be shortly discussed.
Published: 2012
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5. Uranium groundwater anomalies at LNGS: From the neutron flux background to the geodynamic processes

Author: De Vincenzi M., Ioannucci L., Gallese B., Cardarelli A., Bella F., Balata M., Aprili P., Laubenstein M., Plastino W., Nisi S., and Ruggieri F.
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Monitoring of chemical and physical groundwater parameters has been carried out worldwide in seismogenic areas with the aim to test possible correlations between their spatial and temporal variations and strain processes. It is shown in this paper that uranium groundwater anomalies, which were observed in cataclastic rocks crossing the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), can be used as a possible strain meter in domains where continental lithosphère is subducted. Moreover, whereas at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory only the natural radioactivity in the rock, the concrete, as well as the induced part coming from interaction of cosmic ray muons with the rock or the detector materials itself were considered as possible sources for the neutron flux background, the water-rock interaction and its spatial-temporal variation induced by the hydrological pattern of the Gran Sasso aquifer must be taken into account. Water must be considered not only as moderator in concrete, but also as additional source for neutron flux modulation due to its variable concentration and its radioactivity.
Published: 2012
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6. The European Physical Journal C

Author: Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bettelli, M., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camilleri, J., Campani, A., Capelli, C., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Copello, S., Craft, E., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D’Addabbo, A., D’Imperio, G., Dabagov, S., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell’Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Di Lorenzo, S., Dixon, T., Dompè, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Foggetta, L., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallas, A., Gascon, J., Ghislandi, S., Giachero, A., Gianvecchio, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Grant, C., Gras, P., Guillaumon, P. V., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kowalski, R., Langford, T., Lefevre, M., Liu, R., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mas, Ph., Mauri, B., Mayer, D., Mazzitelli, G., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nikkel, J., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O’Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Olmi, M., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Ponce, I., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Quitadamo, S., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rosier, P., Scarpaci, J., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J. A., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Wang, R., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Umatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., Zucchelli, S., Alfonso, K, Armatol, A, Augier, C, Avignone, FT, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Barabash, AS, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Bettelli, M, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camilleri, J, Campani, A, Capelli, C, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Copello, S, Craft, E, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, RJ, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dabagov, S, Dafinei, I, Danevich, FA, De Jesus, M, de Marcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Di Domizio, S, Di Lorenzo, S, Dixon, T, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Foggetta, L, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, BK, Gallas, A, Gascon, J, Ghislandi, S, Giachero, A, Gianvecchio, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Grant, C, Gras, P, Guillaumon, PV, Gutierrez, TD, Han, K, Hansen, EV, Heeger, KM, Helis, DL, Huang, HZ, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, VV, Kolomensky, YG, Konovalov, SI, Kowalski, R, Langford, T, Lefevre, M, Liu, R, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, RH, Mas, P, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mazzitelli, G, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nikkel, J, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, EB, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivieri, E, Olmi, M, Ouellet, JL, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Poda, DV, Polischuk, OG, Ponce, I, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Quitadamo, S, Ressa, A, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Rosier, P, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, VN, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Slocum, P, Speller, D, Surukuchi, PT, Taffarello, L, Tomei, C, Torres, JA, Tretyak, VI, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, KJ, Wagaarachchi, SL, Wang, G, Wang, L, Wang, R, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, LA, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Umatov, VI, Zarytskyy, MM, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, Zucchelli, S, Avignone, F, Barabash, A, Creswick, R, D’Addabbo, A, D’Imperio, G, Danevich, F, Dell’Oro, S, Dompè, V, Fujikawa, B, Guillaumon, P, Gutierrez, T, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Maruyama, R, Norman, E, O’Donnell, T, Ouellet, J, Poda, D, Polischuk, O, Shlegel, V, Surukuchi, P, Torres, J, Tretyak, V, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Winslow, L, Umatov, V, and Zarytskyy, M
Subjects: CUPID detector, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), CUPID, Neutrino physics, neutrinoless double beta decay, CUPID, Low-Temperature Detector, Majorana neutrinos, physics, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract: CUPID will be a next generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double $$\beta $$ β decay, whose discovery would establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Based on the experience achieved with the CUORE experiment, presently taking data at LNGS, CUPID aims to reach a background free environment by means of scintillating Li$$_{2}$$ 2 $$^{100}$$ 100 MoO$$_4$$ 4 crystals coupled to light detectors. Indeed, the simultaneous heat and light detection allows us to reject the dominant background of $$\alpha $$ α particles, as proven by the CUPID-0 and CUPID-Mo demonstrators. In this work we present the results of the first test of the CUPID baseline module. In particular, we propose a new optimized detector structure and light sensors design to enhance the engineering and the light collection, respectively. We characterized the heat detectors, achieving an energy resolution of (5.9 ± 0.2) keV FWHM at the Q-value of $$^{100}$$ 100 Mo (about 3034 keV). We studied the light collection of the baseline CUPID design with respect to an alternative configuration which features gravity-assisted light detectors’ mounting. In both cases we obtained an improvement in the light collection with respect to past measures and we validated the particle identification capability of the detector, which ensures an $$\alpha $$ α particle rejection higher than 99.9%, fully satisfying the requirements for CUPID.
Published: 2022

7. Material radiopurity control in the XENONnT experiment

Author: XENON Collaboration, Aprile, E., Abe, K., Agostini, F., Ahmed Maouloud, S., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Angelino, E., Angevaare, J. R., Antochi, V. C., Antón Martin, D., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Baxter, A. L., Bellagamba, L., Biondi, R., Bismark, A., Brown, A., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cichon, D., Cimmino, B., Clark, M., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cuenca-García, J. J., Cussonneau, J. P., D’Andrea, V., Decowski, M. P., Gangi, P. Di, Pede, S. Di, Giovanni, A. Di, Stefano, R. Di, Diglio, S., Elykov, A., Farrell, S., Ferella, A. D., Fischer, H., Fulgione, W., Gaemers, P., Gaior, R., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Glade-Beucke, R., Grandi, L., Grigat, J., Higuera, A., Hils, C., Hiraide, K., Hoetzsch, L., Howlett, J., Iacovacci, M., Itow, Y., Jakob, J., Joerg, F., Kato, N., Kavrigin, P., Kazama, S., Kobayashi, M., Koltman, G., Kopec, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Li, I., Liang, S., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Liu, K., Lombardi, F., Long, J., Lopes, J. A. M., Ma, Y., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Mancuso, A., Manenti, L., Manfredini, A., Marignetti, F., Marrodán Undagoitia, T., Martens, K., Masbou, J., Masson, D., Masson, E., Mastroianni, S., Messina, M., Miuchi, K., Mizukoshi, K., Molinario, A., Moriyama, S., Morå, K., Mosbacher, Y., Murra, M., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Palacio, J., Peres, R., Pienaar, J., Pierre, M., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Qi, J., Qin, J., Ramírez García, D., Reichard, S., Rocchetti, A., Rupp, N., Sanchez, L., Dos Santos, J. M. F., Sartorelli, G., Schreiner, J., Schulte, D., Schulze Eißing, H., Schumann, M., Lavina, L. Scotto, Selvi, M., Semeria, F., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Takeda, A., Tan, P. L., Terliuk, A., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Tönnies, F., Valerius, K., Volta, G., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Weiss, M., Wenz, D., Westermann, J., Wittweg, C., Wolf, T., Xu, Z., Yamashita, M., Yang, L., Ye, J., Yuan, L., Zavattini, G., Zhang, Y., Zhong, M., Zhu, T., Zopounidis, J. P., Laubenstein, M., Nisi, S., IoP (FNWI), XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Aprile, E, Abe, K, Agostini, F, Ahmed Maouloud, S, Alfonsi, M, Althueser, L, Angelino, E, Angevaare, J R, Antochi, V C, Antón Martin, D, Arneodo, F, Baudis, L, Baxter, A L, Bellagamba, L, Biondi, R, Bismark, A, Brown, A, Bruenner, S, Bruno, G, Budnik, R, Capelli, C, Cardoso, J M R, Cichon, D, Cimmino, B, Clark, M, Colijn, A P, Conrad, J, Cuenca-García, J J, Cussonneau, J P, D'Andrea, V, Decowski, M P, Gangi, P Di, Pede, S Di, Giovanni, A Di, Stefano, R Di, Diglio, S, Elykov, A, Farrell, S, Ferella, A D, Fischer, H, Fulgione, W, Gaemers, P, Gaior, R, Galloway, M, Gao, F, Glade-Beucke, R, Grandi, L, Grigat, J, Higuera, A, Hils, C, Hiraide, K, Hoetzsch, L, Howlett, J, Iacovacci, M, Itow, Y, Jakob, J, Joerg, F, Kato, N, Kavrigin, P, Kazama, S, Kobayashi, M, Koltman, G, Kopec, A, Landsman, H, Lang, R F, Levinson, L, Li, I, Liang, S, Lindemann, S, Lindner, M, Liu, K, Lombardi, F, Long, J, Lopes, J A M, Ma, Y, Macolino, C, Mahlstedt, J, Mancuso, A, Manenti, L, Manfredini, A, Marignetti, F, Marrodán Undagoitia, T, Martens, K, Masbou, J, Masson, D, Masson, E, Mastroianni, S, Messina, M, Miuchi, K, Mizukoshi, K, Molinario, A, Moriyama, S, Morå, K, Mosbacher, Y, Murra, M, Ni, K, Oberlack, U, Palacio, J, Peres, R, Pienaar, J, Pierre, M, Pizzella, V, Plante, G, Qi, J, Qin, J, Ramírez García, D, Reichard, S, Rocchetti, A, Rupp, N, Sanchez, L, Dos Santos, J M F, Sartorelli, G, Schreiner, J, Schulte, D, Schulze Eißing, H, Schumann, M, Lavina, L Scotto, Selvi, M, Semeria, F, Shagin, P, Shockley, E, Silva, M, Simgen, H, Takeda, A, Tan, P L, Terliuk, A, Therreau, C, Thers, D, Toschi, F, Trinchero, G, Tunnell, C, Tönnies, F, Valerius, K, Volta, G, Wei, Y, Weinheimer, C, Weiss, M, Wenz, D, Westermann, J, Wittweg, C, Wolf, T, Xu, Z, Yamashita, M, Yang, L, Ye, J, Yuan, L, Zavattini, G, Zhang, Y, Zhong, M, Zhu, T, Zopounidis, J P, Laubenstein, M, and Nisi, S
Subjects: Radioactivity, Xenon1T, Spectrometry, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Radioactivity, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Spectrometry, Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Xenon1T, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of the utmost importance for rare-event searches and thus critical to the XENONnT experiment. Results of an extensive radioassay program are reported, in which material samples have been screened with gamma-ray spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn emanation measurements. Furthermore, the cleanliness procedures applied to remove or mitigate surface contamination of detector materials are described. Screening results, used as inputs for a XENONnT Monte Carlo simulation, predict a reduction of materials background ($$\sim $$ ∼ 17%) with respect to its predecessor XENON1T. Through radon emanation measurements, the expected $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn activity concentration in XENONnT is determined to be 4.2 ($$^{+0.5}_{-0.7}$$ - 0.7 + 0.5 ) $$\upmu $$ μ Bq/kg, a factor three lower with respect to XENON1T. This radon concentration will be further suppressed by means of the novel radon distillation system.
Published: 2021

8. Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment

Author: Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Amaro, F. D., Anthony, M., Arneodo, F., Barrow, P., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Berger, T., Breur, P. A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Bütikofer, L., Calvén, J., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cervantes, M., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., Perio, P., Di Gangi, P., Di Giovanni, A., Diglio, S., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A. D., Fieguth, A., Franco, D., Fulgione, W., Andrea Gallo Rosso, Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Geis, C., Goetzke, L. W., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Grignon, C., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Itay, R., Kaminsky, B., Kessler, G., Kish, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Lellouch, D., Levinson, L., Le Calloch, M., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lopes, J. A. M., Manfredini, A., Maris, I., Marrodán Undagoitia, T., Masbou, J., Massoli, F. V., Masson, D., Mayani, D., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Miguez, B., Molinario, A., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Pakarha, P., Pelssers, B., Persiani, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., C Piro, M., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Priel, N., Rauch, L., Reichard, S., Reuter, C., Rizzo, A., Rosendahl, S., Rupp, N., Saldanha, R., Dos Santos, J. M. F., Sartorelli, G., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Sivers, M. V., Stein, A., Thers, D., Tiseni, A., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Upole, N., Wang, H., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., Zhang, Y., Laubenstein, M., Nisi, S., Xenon, Collaboration, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), XENON, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées ( SUBATECH ), IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire ( IMT Atlantique ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Nantes ( UN ), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies ( LPNHE ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Amaro, F.D., Anthony, M., Arneodo, F., Barrow, P., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Benabderrahmane, M.L., Berger, T., Breur, P.A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Bütikofer, L., Calvén, J., Cardoso, J.M.R., Cervantes, M., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A.P., Conrad, J., Cussonneau, J.P., Decowski, M.P., de Perio, P., Di Gangi, P., Di Giovanni, A., Diglio, S., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A.D., Fieguth, A., Franco, D., Fulgione, W., Gallo Rosso, A., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Geis, C., Goetzke, L.W., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Grignon, C., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Itay, R., Kaminsky, B., Kessler, G., Kish, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R.F., Lellouch, D., Levinson, L., Le Calloch, M., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lopes, J.A.M., Manfredini, A., Maris, I., Marrodán Undagoitia, T., Masbou, J., Massoli, F.V., Masson, D., Mayani, D., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Miguez, B., Molinario, A., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Pakarha, P., Pelssers, B., Persiani, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Piro, M.-C., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Priel, N., Rauch, L., Reichard, S., Reuter, C., Rizzo, A., Rosendahl, S., Rupp, N., Saldanha, R., dos Santos, J.M.F., Sartorelli, G., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Sivers, M.V., Stein, A., Thers, D., Tiseni, A., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Upole, N., Wang, H., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., Zhang, Y., Laubenstein, M., and Nisi, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Monte Carlo method, measurement methods, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Radiopurity, lcsh:Astrophysics, WIMP: detector, Sciences de l'ingénieur, 01 natural sciences, gamma ray: energy spectrum, Nuclear physics, mass spectrum, XENON, Xenon, WIMP, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Spectroscopy, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Engineering (miscellaneous), background: radioactivity, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Physique, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Astronomie, sensitivity, chemistry, Weakly interacting massive particles, lcsh:QC770-798, TPC, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
Abstract: The XENON1T dark matter experiment aims to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through low-energy interactions with xenon atoms. To detect such a rare event necessitates the use of radiopure materials to minimize the number of background events within the expected WIMP signal region. In this paper we report the results of an extensive material radioassay campaign for the XENON1T experiment. Using gamma-ray spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques, systematic measurements of trace radioactive impurities in over one hundred samples within a wide range of materials were performed. The measured activities allowed for stringent selection and placement of materials during the detector construction phase and provided the input for XENON1T detection sensitivity estimates through Monte Carlo simulations., 0, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2017
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9. Initial performance of the CUORE-0 experiment

Author: Artusa, D. R., Avignone Iii, F. T., Avignone, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T. I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, Fabio, Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X. Z., Canonica, L., Cao, X. G., Capelli, S., Carbone, L., Cardani, Laura, Carrettoni, M., Casali, N., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Cosmelli, Carlo, Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Dafinei, Ioan, Dally, A., Datskov, V., Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Ejzak, L., Fang, D. Q., Farach, H. A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, Fernando, Fiorini, E., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Goett, J., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E., Han, K., Heeger, K. M., Hennings Yeomans, R., Huang, H. Z., Kadel, R., Kazkaz, K., Keppel, G., Kolomensky Yu, G., Kolomensky, Yu G., Y. L., Li, Lim, K. E., Liu, X., Y. G., Ma, Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, Filippo, Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, Valerio, Piperno, Gabriele, Pirro, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Scielzo, N. D., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tian, W. D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, Marco, Wang, B. S., Wang, H. W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L. A., Wise, T., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhu, B. X., Zucchelli, S., CSNSM PS1, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carrettoni, M, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, di Vacri, M, Ejzak, L, Fang, D, Farach, H, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Goett, J, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Kazkaz, K, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Li, Y, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O’Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhu, B, Zucchelli, S, D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone, O. Azzolini, M. Balata, T. I. Bank, G. Bari, J. Beeman, F. Bellini, A. Bersani, M. Biassoni, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, X. Z. Cai, L. Canonica, X. G. Cao, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, L. Cardani, M. Carrettoni, N. Casali, D. Chiesa, N. Chott, M. Clemenza, C. Cosmelli, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, I. Dafinei, A. Dally, V. Datskov, M. M. Deninno, S. Di Domizio, M. L. di Vacri, L. Ejzak, D. Q. Fang, H. A. Farach, M. Faverzani, G. Fernande, E. Ferri, F. Ferroni, E. Fiorini, S. J. Freedman, B. K. Fujikawa, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, J. Goett, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, T. D. Gutierrez, E. E. Haller, K. Han, K. M. Heeger, R. Hennings-Yeoman, H. Z. Huang, R. Kadel, K. Kazkaz, G. Keppel, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Y. L. Li, K. E. Lim, X. Liu, Y. G. Ma, C. Maiano, M. Maino, M. Martinez, R. H. Maruyama, Y. Mei, N. Moggi, S. Morganti, S. Nisi, C. None, E. B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, T. O’Donnell, F. Orio, D. Orlandi, J. L. Ouellet, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, V. Pettinacci, G. Piperno, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, E. Sala, S. Sangiorgio, N. D. Scielzo, M. Sisti, A. R. Smith, L. Taffarello, M. Tenconi, F. Terranova, W. D. Tian, C. Tomei, S. Trentalange, G. Ventura, M. Vignati, B. S. Wang, H. W. Wang, L. Wielgu, J. Wilson, L. A. Winslow, T. Wise, L. Zanotti, C. Zarra, B. X. Zhu, and S. Zucchelli
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Experimental Physics, energy resolution, sensitivity, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Upper and lower bounds, CUORE-0 experiment, neutrinoless double-beta decay, cryogenic detectors, tellurium dioxide bolometers, background analysis, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, helium: background, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), contamination, CUORE, bolometer, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Nuclear Experiment, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Resolution (electron density), Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), CUORICINO, 3. Good health, Full width at half maximum, chemistry, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], High Energy Physics Experiment, Instrumentation and Detectors, Tellurium dioxide, Energy (signal processing), performance
Abstract: CUORE-0 is a cryogenic detector that uses an array of tellurium dioxide bolometers to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of ^{130}Te. We present the first data analysis with 7.1 kg y of total TeO_2 exposure focusing on background measurements and energy resolution. The background rates in the neutrinoless double-beta decay region of interest (2.47 to 2.57 MeV) and in the {\alpha} background-dominated region (2.70 to 3.90 MeV) have been measured to be 0.071 \pm 0.011 and 0.019 \pm 0.002 counts/keV/kg/y, respectively. The latter result represents a factor of 6 improvement from a predecessor experiment, Cuoricino. The results verify our understanding of the background sources in CUORE-0, which is the basis of extrapolations to the full CUORE detector. The obtained energy resolution (full width at half maximum) in the region of interest is 5.7 keV. Based on the measured background rate and energy resolution in the region of interest, CUORE-0 half-life sensitivity is expected to surpass the observed lower bound of Cuoricino with one year of live time., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, version 2 as published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Published: 2014
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10. Discovery of the151Eu α decay

Author: Casali, N., Nagorny, S. S., Orio, Filippo, Pattavina, L., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, Fabio, Cardani, Laura, Dafinei, Ioan, Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Gironi, L., Kosmyna, M. B., Nazarenko, B. P., Nisi, S., Pessina, G., Piperno, Gabriele, Pirro, S., Rusconi, C., Shekhovtsov, A. N., Tomei, C., Vignati, Marco, Casali, N, Nagorny, S, Orio, F, Pattavina, L, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Cardani, L, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Vacri, M, Gironi, L, Kosmyna, M, Nazarenko, B, Nisi, S, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Rusconi, C, Shekhovtsov, A, Tomei, C, and Vignati, M
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, alpha decay, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, scintillation detectors, Bolometer, scintillation detector, bolometers, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Crystal, Nuclear physics, bolometer, law, 0103 physical sciences, Coulomb, Alpha decay, 010306 general physics, Ground state, Nuclear theory
Abstract: We report on the first compelling observation of α decay of 151Eu to the ground state of 147Pm. The measurement was performed using a 6.15g Li6Eu(BO3)3 crystal operated as a scintillating bolometer. The Q-value and half-life measured are: Q = 1948.9±6.9(stat.) ± 5.1(syst.) keV, and T 1/2 = (4.62 ± 0.95(stat.) ± 0.68(syst.)) 1018 y. The half-life prediction of nuclear theory using the Coulomb and proximity potential model are in good agreement with this experimental result. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2014

11. Search for 14.4 keV solar axions from M1 transition of Fe-57 with Cuore crystals

Author: Alessandria, F, Ardito, R, Artusa, D, Avignone III, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, BIASSONI, MATTEO, Bloxham, T, BROFFERIO, CHIARA, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Canonica, L, CAPELLI, SILVIA, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carrettoni, M, Casali, N, Chott, N, CLEMENZA, MASSIMILIANO, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Biasi, A, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Vacri, M, Ejzak, L, Faccini, R, Fang, D, Farach, H, FERRI, ELENA, Ferroni, F, FIORINI, ETTORE, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, t.e.x.t.b.f..u.n.d.e.r.l.i.n.e.{.A. Giachero}, n, GIRONI, LUCA, Giuliani, A, Goett, J, Goodsell, A, Gorla, P, GOTTI, CLAUDIO, Guardincerri, E, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Kazkaz, K, Keppel, G, Kogler, L, Kolomensky, Y, Lenz, D, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, MAINO, MATTEO, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Newman, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, NUCCIOTTI, ANGELO ENRICO LODOVICO, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, PAVAN, MAURA, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rampazzo, V, Reil, R, Rimondi, F, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, SISTI, MONICA, Smith, A, Sparks, L, Stivanello, F, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Whitten J.r. , C, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, ZANOTTI, LUIGI ERNESTO, Zarra, C, Zhu, B, Zucchelli, S., CSNSM PS1, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), F. Alessandria, R. Ardito, D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone III, O. Azzolini, M. Balata, T. I. Bank, G. Bari, J. Beeman, F. Bellini, A. Bersani, M. Biassoni, T. Bloxham, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, X. Z. Cai, L. Canonica, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, L. Cardani, M. Carrettoni, N. Casali, N. Chott, M. Clemenza, C. Cosmelli, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, I. Dafinei, A. Dally, V. Datskov, A. De Biasi, M. P. Decowski, M. M. Deninno, S. Di Domizio, M. L. di Vacri, L. Ejzak, R. Faccini, D. Q. Fang, H. A. Farach, E. Ferri, F. Ferroni, E. Fiorini, M. A. Franceschi, S. J. Freedman, B. K. Fujikawa, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, J. Goett, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, E. Guardincerri, T. D. Gutierrez, E. E. Haller, K. Han, K. M. Heeger, H. Z. Huang, R. Kadel, K. Kazkaz, G. Keppel, L. Kogler, Yu. G. Kolomensky, D. Lenz, Y. L. Li, C. Ligi, X. Liu, Y. G. Ma, C. Maiano, M. Maino, M. Martinez, R. H. Maruyama, N. Moggi, S. Morganti, T. Napolitano, S. Newman, S. Nisi, C. None, E. B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, F. Orio, D. Orlandi, J. L. Ouellet, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, V. Rampazzo, F. Rimondi, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, S. Sangiorgio, N. D. Scielzo, M. Sisti, A. R. Smith, L. Taffarello, M. Tenconi, W. D. Tian, C. Tomei, S. Trentalange, G. Ventura, M. Vignati, B. S. Wang, H. W. Wang, C. A. Whitten Jr., T. Wise, A. Woodcraft, L. Zanotti, C. Zarra, B. X. Zhu, S. Zucchelli, IoP (FNWI), Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam, GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI), Faculty of Science, Other Research IHEF (IoP, FNWI), Alessandria, F, Ardito, R, Artusa, D, Avignone III, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Bloxham, T, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carrettoni, M, Casali, N, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Biasi, A, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Vacri, M, Ejzak, L, Faccini, R, Fang, D, Farach, H, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, t. e. x. t. b. f. . u. n. d. e. r. l. i. n. e. {. A. Giachero}, N, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Goett, J, Goodsell, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Guardincerri, E, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Kazkaz, K, Keppel, G, Kogler, L, Kolomensky, Y, Lenz, D, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Newman, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rampazzo, V, Reil, R, Rimondi, F, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Sparks, L, Stivanello, F, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Whitten J. r., C, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhu, B, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: Particle physics, axions, dark matter experiment, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Experiment, dark matter experiments, CUORE, Low energy, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Matrix element, High Energy Physics, 010306 general physics, Pseudovector, Axion, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Astronomy and Astrophysics, INVARIANCE, STRONG CP PROBLEM, solar axions
Abstract: We report the results of a search for axions from the 14.4 keV M1 transition from Fe-57 in the core of the sun using the axio-electric effect in TeO2 bolometers. The detectors are 5x5x5 cm3 crystals operated at about 10 mK in a facility used to test bolometers for the CUORE experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 43.65 kg d of data was made using a newly developed low energy trigger which was optimized to reduce the detectors energy threshold. An upper limit of 0.63 c kg-1 d-1 was established at 95% C.L.. From this value, a lower bound at 95% C.L. was placed on the Peccei-Quinn energy scale of fa >= 0.76 10**6 GeV for a value of S=0.55 for the flavor-singlet axial vector matrix element. Bounds are given for the interval 0.15 < S < 0.55., 14 pages, 6 figures, submitted to JCAP
Published: 2013
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12. Science and technology of Borexino: a real-time detector for low energy solar neutrinos

Author: Alimonti, G., Arpesella, C., Beck, H. O., Balata, Beau, T., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bonetti, S., Brigatti, A., Caccianiga, B., Cadonati, L., Calaprice, F. P., Cecchet, G., Chen, M., Debari, A., DE HAAS, E., Donghi, O., Deutsch, M., Elisei, F., VON FEILITZSCH, F., Fernholz, R., Ford, R., Freudiger, B., Garagiola, A., Gatti, Flavio, Gazzana, S., Giammarchi, M. G., Giugni, D., Golubchikov, A., Goretti, A., Grieb, C., Hagner, T., Hagner, C., Hampel, W., Harding, E., Hartmann, F., VON HENTIG, R., Hess, H., G. HEUSSER G., Ianni, A., Inzani, P., DE KERRET, H., Kidner, S., Kiko, J., Kirsten, Korga, G., Korshinek, Krin, D., Lagomarsino, Vittorio, Laubenstein, M., Loeser, F., Lombardi, P., Magni, S., Malvezzi, S., Maneira, J., Manno, I., Manuzio, Giulio, Masetti, F., Mazzucato, U., Meroni, E., Musico, P., Neder, H., Neff, M., Nisi, S., Nostro, A., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Pallavicini, Marco, Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Raghavan, R. S., Ranucci, G., Rau, W., Resconi, E., Riedel, Sabelnikov, A., Saggese, P., Salvo, C., Scardaoni, R., Schoenert, S., Shuubeck, K. H., Seidel, H., Shutt, Sonnenschein, Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Skorokhvatov, M., Sukhotin, S., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Vogelaar, R. B., Vitale, Sandro, Woijcik, M., Zaimidoroga, O., and Zakharov, Y.
Subjects: Physics, Scintillation, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Physics::Geophysics, Low energy, 0103 physical sciences, Background suppression, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Borexino
Abstract: BOREXINO, a real-time device for low energy neutrino spectroscopy is nearing completion of construction in the underground laboratories at Gran Sasso, Italy (LNGS). The experiment's goal is the direct measurement of the flux of 7Be solar neutrinos of all flavors via neutrino-electron scattering in an ultra-pure scintillation liquid. Seeded by a series of innovations which were brought to fruition by large scale operation of a 4-ton test detector at LNGS, a new technology has been developed for BOREXINO. It enables sub-MeV solar neutrino spectroscopy for the first time. This paper describes the design of BOREXINO, the various facilities essential to its operation, its spectroscopic and background suppression capabilities and a prognosis of the impact of its results towards resolving the solar neutrino problem. BOREXINO will also address several other frontier questions in particle physics, astrophysics and geophysics.
Published: 2002
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13. Complete results for five years of GNO solar neutrino observations

Author: GNO COLLABORATION, Altmann, M., Balata, M., Belli, P., Bellotti, E., Bernabei, R., Burkert, E., Cattadori, C., Cerulli, R., Chiarini, M., Cribier, M., d'Angelo, S., Del Re, G., Ebert, K. H., Feilitzsch, F. v., Ferrari, N., Hampel, W., Hartmann, F. X., Henrich, E., Heusser, G., Kaether, F., Kiko, J., Kirsten, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lanfranchi, J., Laubenstein, M., Luetzenkirchen, K., Mayer, K., Moegel, P., Motta, D., Nisi, S., Oehm, J., Pandola, L., Petricca, F., Potzel, W., Richter, H., Schoenert, S., Wallenius, M., Wojcik, M., Zanotti, L., Altmann, M, Balata, M, Belli, P, Bellotti, E, Bernabei, R, Burkert, E, Cattadori, C, Cerulli, R, Chiarini, M, Cribier, M, D'Angelo, S, Del Re, G, Ebert, K, Feilitzsch, F, Ferrari, N, Hampel, W, Hartmann, F, Henrich, E, Heusser, G, Kaether, F, Kiko, J, Kirsten, T, Lachenmaier, T, Lanfranchi, J, Laubenstein, M, Lutzenkirchen, K, Mayer, K, Moegel, P, Motta, D, Nisi, S, Oehm, J, Pandola, L, Petricca, F, Potzel, W, Richter, H, Schoenert, S, Wallenius, M, Wojcik, M, and Zanotti, L
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Solar neutrino, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, solar neutrinos, GNO, Gran Sasso Laboratory, Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino mass, Combined result, Gallium experiment, Neutrino, GALLEX, Neutrino ma, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
Abstract: We report the complete GNO solar neutrino results for the measuring periods GNO III, GNO II, and GNO I. The result for GNO III (last 15 solar runs) is [54.3 + 9.9 - 9.3 (stat.)+- 2.3 (syst.)] SNU (1 sigma) or [54.3 + 10.2 - 9.6 (incl. syst.)] SNU (1 sigma) with errors combined. The GNO experiment is now terminated after altogether 58 solar exposure runs that were performed between May 20, 1998 and April 9, 2003. The combined result for GNO (I+II+III) is [62.9 + 5.5 - 5.3 (stat.) +- 2.5 (syst.)] SNU (1 sigma) or [62.9 + 6.0 - 5.9] SNU (1 sigma) with errors combined in quadrature. Overall, gallium based solar observations at LNGS (first in GALLEX, later in GNO) lasted from May 14, 1991 through April 9, 2003. The joint result from 123 runs in GNO and GALLEX is [69.3 +- 5.5 (incl. syst.)] SNU (1 sigma). The distribution of the individual run results is consistent with the hypothesis of a neutrino flux that is constant in time. Implications from the data in particle- and astrophysics are reiterated., Comment: 22 pages incl. 9 Figures and 8 Tables. to appear in: Physics Letters B (accepted April 13, 2005) PACS: 26.65.+t ; 14.60.Pq
Published: 2005

14. Production and separation of 163Ho for nuclear physics experiments.

Author: Heinitz, S., Kivel, N., Schumann, D., Köster, U., Balata, M., Biasotti, M., Ceriale, V., De Gerone, M., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Gallucci, G., Gatti, F., Giachero, A., Nisi, S., Nucciotti, A., Orlando, A., Pessina, G., Puiu, A., and Ragazzi, S.
Subjects: SEPARATION (Technology), NEUTRON cross sections, COLLISIONS (Nuclear physics), ISOTOPES, ION exchange (Chemistry)
Abstract: This paper describes the production and chemical separation of the 163Ho isotope that will be used in several nuclear physics experiments aiming at measuring the neutrino mass as well as the neutron cross section of the 163Ho isotope. For this purpose, several batches of enriched 162Er have been irradiated at the Institut Laue-Langevin high flux reactor to finally produce 6 mg or 100 MBq of the desired 163Ho isotope. A portion of the Er/Ho mixture is then subjected to a sophisticated chemical separation involving ion exchange chromatography to isolate the Ho product from the Er target material. Before irradiation, a thorough analysis of the impurity content was performed and its implication on the produced nuclide inventory will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2018
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15. Measurement of the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Ge-76 with the Gerda experiment

Author: GERDA Collaboration, Agostini, M., Allardt, M., Andreotti, E., Bakalyarov, A. M., Balata, M., Barabanov, I., Heider, M. Barnabe, Barros, N., Baudis, L., Bauer, C., Becerici-Schmidt, N., Bellotti, E., Belogurov, S., Belyaev, S. T., Benato, G., Bettini, A., Bezrukov, L., Bode, T., Brudanin, V., Brugnera, R., Budjas, D., Caldwell, A., Cattadori, C., Chernogorov, A., Cossavella, F., Demidova, E. V., Denisov, A., Domula, A., Egorov, V., Falkenstein, R., Ferella, A. D., Freund, K., Froborg, F., Frodyma, N., Gangapshev, A., Garfagnini, A., Gazzana, S., Grambayr, P., Gurentsov, V., Gusev, K., Guthikonda, K. K., Hampel, W., Hegai, A., Heisel, M., Hemmer, S., Heusser, G., Hofmann, W., Hult, M., Inzhechik, L. V., Ioannucci, L., Csathy, J. Janicsko, Jochum, J., Junker, M., Kianovsky, S., Kirpichnikov, I. V., Kirsch, A., Klimenko, A., Knoepfle, K. T., Kochetov, O., Kornoukhov, V. N., Kusminov, V., Laubenstein, M., Lazzaro, A., Lebedev, V. I., Lehnert, B., Liao, H. Y., Lindner, M., Lippi, I., Liu, X., Lubashevskiy, A., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lutter, G., Machado, A. A., Majorovits, B., Maneschg, W., Nemchenok, I., Nisi, S., O'Shaughnessy, C., Pandola, L., Pelczar, K., Peraro, L., Pullia, A., Riboldi, S., Ritter, F., Sada, C., Salathe, M., Schmitt, C., Schoenert, S., Schreiner, J., Schulz, O., Schwingenheuer, B., Shevchik, E., Shirchenko, M., Simgen, H., Smolnikov, A., Stanco, L., Strecker, H., Tarka, M., Ur, C. A., Vasenko, A. A., Volynets, O., von Sturm, K., Walter, M., Wegmann, A., Wojcik, M., Yanovich, E., Zavarise, P., Zhitnikov, I., Zhukov, S. V., Zinatulina, D., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Range (particle radiation), Half-life, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Germanium, Semiconductor detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), chemistry, Double beta decay, Liquid argon, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The primary goal of the GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN is the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76. High-purity germanium detectors made from material enriched in Ge-76 are operated directly immersed in liquid argon, allowing for a substantial reduction of the background with respect to predecessor experiments. The first 5.04 kg yr of data collected in Phase I of the experiment have been analyzed to measure the half-life of the neutrino-accompanied double beta decay of Ge-76. The observed spectrum in the energy range between 600 and 1800 keV is dominated by the double beta decay of Ge-76. The half-life extracted from Gerda data is T(1/2) = (1.84 +0.14 -0.10) 10^{21} yr., 14 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys
Published: 2012

16. Material screening and selection for XENON100

Author: XENON100 Collaboration, Aprile, E., Arisaka, K., Arneodo, F., Askin, A., Baudis, L., Behrens, A., Bokeloh, K., Brown, E., Cardoso, J. M. R., Choi, B., Cline, D., Fattori, S., Ferella, A. D., Giboni, K. L., Kish, A., Lam, C. W., Lamblin, J., Lang, R. F., Lim, K. E., Lopes, J. A. M., Undagoitia, T. Marrodan, Mei, Y., Fernandez, A. J. Melgarejo, Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Orrigo, S. E. A., Pantic, E., Plante, G., Ribeiro, A. C. C, Santorelli, R., Santos, J. M. F. dos, Schumann, M., Shagin, P., Teymourian, A., Thers, D., Tziaferi, E., Wang, H., Weinheimer, C., Laubenstein, M., Nisi, S., Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XENON100
Subjects: Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Low activity, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Mass spectrometry, 01 natural sciences, Semiconductor detector, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Mass spectrum, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Gamma ray spectrometry, Ultra sensitive
Abstract: Results of the extensive radioactivity screening campaign to identify materials for the construction of XENON100 are reported. This Dark Matter search experiment is operated underground at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy. Several ultra sensitive High Purity Germanium detectors (HPGe) have been used for gamma ray spectrometry. Mass spectrometry has been applied for a few low mass plastic samples. Detailed tables with the radioactive contaminations of all screened samples are presented, together with the implications for XENON100., Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure
Published: 2011
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17. Progress in GNO

Author: Kirsten, T. A., Bellotti, E, Cattadori, C, Ferrari, N, Petricca, F, Zanotti, L, Cerichelli, G, Chiarini, Marco, DEL RE, G, Burkert, E, Hampel, W, Hartmann, F. X., Heusser, G, Kiko, J, Motta, D, Richter, H, Ebert, K. H., Henrich, E, Balata, M, Ioannucci, L, Laubenstein, M, Nisi, S, Pandola, L, Altmann, M, VON FEILITZSCH, F, Lachenmaier, T, Lanfranchi, J, Potzel, W, Belli, P, Bernabei, R, Cerulli, R, D'Angelo, S, and Cribier, M.
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Observatory, Solar neutrino, Context (language use), Combined result, GALLEX, Error reduction, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Abstract: Recording of sub-MeV solar neutrinos ( ν pp , ν Be7 ) in the Gallium Neutrino Observatory (GNO) is essential in further defining the neutrino oscillation parameters (masses, mixings). Continued error reduction is crucial in this context. The data set GNO H is now completed. The result from 43 runs (May 1998 through January 2002) is 65 ± 7 SNU. The total record is now 108 runs (65 Gallex, 43 GNO [19 GNOI, 24 GNO II]), the combined result is 71 ± 6 SNU. The systematical error in GNO is reduced to ± 3.0 SNU. This substantial error reduction has been achieved mainly through internal counter calibrations, an improved Rn-correction, and the introduction of neural network data analysis. The physics potential of future sub-MeV neutrino studies demands further efforts. Work is underway towards even better 71 Ge counting efficiency by application of cryotechnics and towards a new and more precise 51 Cr neutrino source experiment (>2.5 MCi) for an improved determination of the cross section for ν-capture on 71 Ga.
Published: 2003

18. Ultra-low background measurements in a large volume underground detector

Author: Alimonti, G., Anghloher, G., Arpesella, C., Balata, M., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bonetti, S., Cadonati, L., Calaprice, F. P., Cecchet, G., Chen, M., Darnton, M., Debari, A., Deutsch, M., Elisei, F., VON FEILITZSCH, F., Galbiati, C., Gatti, Flavio, Giammarchi, M. G., Giugni, D., Goldbrunne, T., Golubchikov, A., Goretti, A., Hagner, T., Hartmann, F., VON HENTIG, R., Heusser, G., Ianni, A., Jochum, J., Johnson, M., Laubenstein, M., Lombardi, P., Magni, S., Malvezzi, S., Manno, I., Manuzio, Giulio, Masetti, F., Mazzucato, U., Meroni, E., Neff, M., Nisi, S., Nostro, A., Oberauer, L., Perotti, A., Preda, A., Raghavan, P., Raghavan, R. S., Ranucci, G., Resconi, E., Ruscitti, P., Scardaoni, R., Schoenert, S., Smirnov, O., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Ullucci, P., Vogelaar, R. B., Vitale, Sandro, Wpjcik, M., and Zaimidoroga, O.
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Scintillation, Volume (thermodynamics), Solar neutrino, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Natural abundance, Neutrino, Scintillator, Borexino
Abstract: A large volume (4.8 m3) liquid scintillator detector has been running in Hall C of the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory since February 1995. This detector is called the “Counting Test Facility” (CTF). The main goal of the detector facility is the measurement of ultralow background levels in scintillators and the development of processes able to purify them at this level. The detector has been designed to have exceptional sensitivity using a variety of methods to identify backgrounds. With the CTF, records were achieved in the domain of low background large volume detectors. Limits of 3.5 ± 1.3 × 10−16 g/g and 4.4−1.2+1.5 × 10−16 g/g for the 238U and 232Th daughters, respectively, and 1.85 ± 0.13 ± 0.01 × 10−18 for the isotopic abundance of 14C relative to 12C were obtained. These results are very encouraging and point towards the feasibility of low energy, real time scintillation detectors for solar neutrinos, such as Borexino.
Published: 1998

19. Cleanliness, backgrounds and surface contamination in CUORE.

Author: Pirro, S., Capelli, S., Cremonesi, O., Nisi, S., Palmieri, E., Pavan, M., and Previtali, E.
Subjects: BETA decay, SURFACE contamination, INDUSTRIAL contamination, SURFACES (Technology), PARTICLES (Nuclear physics), NUCLEAR physics, PHYSICS, RADIATION
Abstract: CUORE is a proposed array of 988, 750 g, TeO2 crystal bolometers. The experiment has been approved by the Scientific Committee of Gran Sasso Laboratories and the special dilution refrigerator, that is intended to house the detector has been funded. The Experiment will search for the 0v-Double Beta Decay of 130Te. As in all the proposed next generation Double Beta Decay Experiments, the main task is the reduction of the radioactive background. A peculiar property of thermal detectors is that they are active over the entire volume and therefore strongly subject to radioactive surface contaminations. Unlike radioactive bulk contaminations, that can be measured through High-Purity Ge Detectors, radioactive surface contaminations are not easily measurable at very low levels. Different techniques were developed in order to reach the required sensitivity. Present results already achieved and studies that are underway are here presented and discussed. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2005
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20. Status of the HOLMES experiment to directly measure the electron neutrino mass with a calorimetric approach

Author: Gallucci, G., Alpert, B., Balata, M., Becker, D. T., Bennett, D. A., Bevilacqua, A., Biasotti, M., Matteo Borghesi, Ceruti, G., Gerone, M., Dressler, R., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Fowler, J. W., Gard, J. D., Gatti, F., Giachero, A., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinitz, S., Hilton, G. C., Koster, U., Lusignoli, M., Mates, J. A. B., Nisi, S., Nucciotti, A., Parodi, L., Pessina, G., Puiu, A., Ragazzi, S., Reintsema, C. D., Schmidt, D. R., Schuman, D., Siccardit, F., Sisti, M., Swetz, D. S., Ullom, J. N., Vale, L. R., Gallucci, G, Alpert, B, Balata, M, Becker, D, Bennett, D, Bevilacqua, A, Biasotti, M, Borghesi, M, Ceruti, G, de Gerone, M, Dressler, R, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Fowler, J, Gard, J, Gatti, F, Giachero, A, Hays-Wehle, J, Heinitz, S, Hilton, G, Koster, U, Lusignoli, M, Mates, J, Nisi, S, Nucciotti, A, Parodi, L, Pessina, G, Puiu, A, Ragazzi, S, Reintsema, C, Schmidt, D, Schuman, D, Siccardit, F, Sisti, M, Swetz, D, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and ILL
Subjects: Electron capture, measurement methods, Measure (physics), chemistry.chemical_element, neutrino/e: mass, electron: capture, 01 natural sciences, neutrino mass, HOLMES, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], holmium: nuclide, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, activity report, detector: design, Physics, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Neutrino physic, chemistry, pile-up, Transition edge sensor, Neutrino, Holmium, Electron neutrino
Abstract: International audience; The measurement of neutrino masses is still one of the most compelling issues in modern particle physics. HOLMES is an experiment that aims to measure the effective νe mass using a calorimetric approach. It will measure the spectrum end point of the electron capture (EC) decay of $^{163}$Ho. The very low Q-value (2.8 keV) of the decay and its half life (4570 y) are optimal to reach simultaneously a reasonable activity to have sufficient statistics in the end-point, reducing the pile-up probability and have a small quantity of $^{163}$Ho embedded in the detector not to alter significantly its heat capacity. Holmium will be implanted into a micro calorimeter made by a metallic absorber coupled to transition edge sensor (TES). Each detector will be implanted with around 300 Bq of holmium and the goal of the experiment is implanting ≈500 detectors (8x64 array of detectors) to reach an accuracy of the order of eV. In this contribution, we show the HOLMES experiment with its physics reach and technical challenges, along with its status and perspectives.
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21. CUORE opens the door to tonne-scale cryogenics experiments

Author: L. Canonica, L. Marini, Kevin Hickerson, J. Schmidt, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, S. Copello, L. Gladstone, M. Guerzoni, L. Ma, J. Johnston, A. Leder, M. Iannone, Irene Nutini, Paolo Carniti, Vladimir Datskov, R. J. Creswick, M. M. Deninno, G. Fantini, F. Bellini, I. C. Bandac, Yu-Gang Ma, D. Santone, V. Sharma, C. Brofferio, P. J. Mosteiro, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, Evelyn Ferri, H. Z. Huang, G. Keppel, K. E. Lim, X. G. Cao, F. Bragazzi, Ettore Fiorini, V. Novati, C. Rusconi, N. Chott, T. Wise, C. Crescentini, R. Gaigher, L. Zanotti, Andrea Giachero, C. Maiano, N. Moggi, C. Martinez Amaya, S. S. Nagorny, A. Pelosi, G. Piperno, D. Q. Adams, L. Risegari, K. Alfonso, F. Terranova, Davide Chiesa, C. Rosenfeld, Deqing Fang, S. Pagan, S. Dell'Oro, M. L. Di Vacri, D. Mayer, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, P. T. Surukuchi, S. Morganti, S. Zucchelli, J. Camilleri, A. Nucciotti, M. Sisti, P. Gorla, E. V. Hansen, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Elena Sala, L. Ioannucci, D. Speller, F. Alessandria, M. I. Martínez, Eugene E. Haller, C. Alduino, F. Rimondi, G. Ceruti, K. Wilson, L. Taffarello, Marisa Pedretti, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. Pirro, Carlo Ligi, M. Faverzani, M. Beretta, Y. Mei, M. Tessaro, Jeffrey W. Beeman, M. Capodiferro, A. Bersani, N. D. Scielzo, M. Barucci, L. Cappelli, D. Biare, C. J. Davis, A. Camacho, Jonathan Ouellet, D. Conventi, J. Wallig, K. M. Heeger, L. Pagnanini, A. Giuliani, G. Bari, M. Cariello, Lindley Winslow, A. Campani, S. L. Wagaarachchi, M. Maino, Guoqiang Zhang, M. Carrettoni, R. Mazza, A. Branca, A. Bryant, J. Nikkel, C. Pira, H.W. Wang, M. Perego, T. I. Banks, S. Zimmermann, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, S. Ghislandi, T. O'Donnell, S. Di Domizio, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, Stuart J. Freedman, G. Ventura, A. Drobizhev, C. Bulfon, C. Zarra, Laura Cardani, V. Dompè, M. Balata, L. Di Paolo, A. D'Addabbo, L. Pattavina, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, Alan R. Smith, D. Orlandi, Larissa M. Ejzak, M. Vignati, B. X. Zhu, V. Pettinacci, L. Kogler, E. Celi, L. Tatananni, S.H. Fu, E. Andreotti, M. A. Franceschi, R. Cereseto, I. Dafinei, M. Sakai, D. D'Aguanno, F. Stivanello, R. G. Huang, D. Schaeffer, C. Guandalini, F. Orio, Vasundhara Singh, B. Schmidt, B. S. Wang, O. Azzolini, Kai Vetter, M. Olcese, Jeremy S. Cushman, V. Palmieri, Eric B. Norman, M. Guetti, T. Napolitano, M. Biassoni, F. Del Corso, R. Faccini, Giovanni Benato, A. Buccheri, C. Salvioni, Yu. G. Kolomensky, R. Pedrotta, Lorenzo Cassina, C. Nones, A. Puiu, Marco Pallavicini, S. Quitadamo, G. Pessina, James R. Wilson, R. Liu, Massimiliano Nastasi, M. Pavan, E. Olivieri, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, Claudio Gotti, N. Casali, F. Reindl, Oliviero Cremonesi, J. Goett, M. Tenconi, C. Pagliarone, C. Rossi, A. Chiarini, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, Adams, D, Alduino, C, Alessandria, F, Alfonso, K, Andreotti, E, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Bandac, I, Banks, T, Bari, G, Barucci, M, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Bersani, A, Biare, D, Biassoni, M, Bragazzi, F, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bryant, A, Buccheri, A, Bucci, C, Bulfon, C, Camacho, A, Camilleri, J, Caminata, A, Campani, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Capodiferro, M, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Cariello, M, Carniti, P, Carrettoni, M, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Celi, E, Cereseto, R, Ceruti, G, Chiarini, A, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Conventi, D, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Crescentini, C, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D'Addabbo, A, D'Aguanno, D, Dafinei, I, Datskov, V, Davis, C, Corso, F, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Di Vacri, M, Di Paolo, L, Drobizhev, A, Ejzak, L, Faccini, R, Fang, D, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gaigher, R, Ghislandi, S, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gladstone, L, Goett, J, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Guandalini, C, Guerzoni, M, Guetti, M, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, R, Huang, H, Iannone, M, Ioannucci, L, Johnston, J, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kogler, L, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, R, Ma, L, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Amaya, C, Maruyama, R, Mayer, D, Mazza, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Mosteiro, P, Nagorny, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nikkel, J, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olcese, M, Olivieri, E, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pedrotta, R, Pelosi, A, Perego, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Quitadamo, S, Reindl, F, Rimondi, F, Risegari, L, Rosenfeld, C, Rossi, C, Rusconi, C, Sakai, M, Sala, E, Salvioni, C, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Schaeffer, D, Schmidt, B, Schmidt, J, Scielzo, N, Sharma, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Speller, D, Stivanello, F, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tatananni, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tessaro, M, Tomei, C, Ventura, G, Vetter, K, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wallig, J, Wang, B, Wang, H, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, Zimmermann, S, Zucchelli, S, Adams D.Q., Alduino C., Alessandria F., Alfonso K., Andreotti E., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Balata M., Bandac I., Banks T.I., Bari G., Barucci M., Beeman J.W., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Bersani A., Biare D., Biassoni M., Bragazzi F., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bryant A., Buccheri A., Bucci C., Bulfon C., Camacho A., Camilleri J., Caminata A., Campani A., Canonica L., Cao X.G., Capelli S., Capodiferro M., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Cariello M., Carniti P., Carrettoni M., Casali N., Cassina L., Celi E., Cereseto R., Ceruti G., Chiarini A., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Conventi D., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Crescentini C., Creswick R.J., Cushman J.S., D'Addabbo A., D'Aguanno D., Dafinei I., Datskov V., Davis C.J., Del Corso F., Dell'Oro S., Deninno M.M., Di Domizio S., Dompe V., Di Vacri M.L., Di Paolo L., Drobizhev A., Ejzak L., Faccini R., Fang D.Q., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi M.A., Freedman S.J., Fu S.H., Fujikawa B.K., Gaigher R., Ghislandi S., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gladstone L., Goett J., Gorla P., Gotti C., Guandalini C., Guerzoni M., Guetti M., Gutierrez T.D., Haller E.E., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Hennings-Yeomans R., Hickerson K.P., Huang R.G., Huang H.Z., Iannone M., Ioannucci L., Johnston J., Kadel R., Keppel G., Kogler L., Kolomensky Y.G., Leder A., Ligi C., Lim K.E., Liu R., Ma L., Ma Y.G., Maiano C., Maino M., Marini L., Martinez M., Amaya C.M., Maruyama R.H., Mayer D., Mazza R., Mei Y., Moggi N., Morganti S., Mosteiro P.J., Nagorny S.S., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Nikkel J., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novati V., Nucciotti A., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olcese M., Olivieri E., Orio F., Orlandi D., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C.E., Pagnanini L., Pallavicini M., Palmieri V., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pedretti M., Pedrotta R., Pelosi A., Perego M., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Piperno G., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Quitadamo S., Reindl F., Rimondi F., Risegari L., Rosenfeld C., Rossi C., Rusconi C., Sakai M., Sala E., Salvioni C., Sangiorgio S., Santone D., Schaeffer D., Schmidt B., Schmidt J., Scielzo N.D., Sharma V., Singh V., Sisti M., Smith A.R., Speller D., Stivanello F., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tatananni L., Tenconi M., Terranova F., Tessaro M., Tomei C., Ventura G., Vetter K.J., Vignati M., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wallig J., Wang B.S., Wang H.W., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Wise T., Zanotti L., Zarra C., Zhang G.Q., Zhu B.X., Zimmermann S., Zucchelli S., Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and CUORE
Subjects: Cryostat, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenic temperatures, Dilution refrigerator, Low temperature calorimeter, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Rare event searches, Ton-scale detector, Cryogenic temperatures, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Dilution refrigerator, Ton-scale detector, Low temperature calorimeter, Rare event searches, cryogenics, CUORE performance, Cryogenics, Rare event searche, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, CUORE, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Cryogenic particle detectors, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Aerospace engineering, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, activity report, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cryogenic temperature, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), CUORE performance, Semiconductor detector, cryogenics: design, cryogenics, Neutrino, business, performance
Abstract: The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparable to semiconductor detectors - and a wide choice of target materials, making low temperature calorimetric detectors ideal for a variety of particle physics applications. Rare event searches have continued to require ever greater exposures, which has driven them to ever larger cryogenic detectors, with the CUORE experiment being the first to reach a tonne-scale, mK-cooled, experimental mass. CUORE, designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay, has been operational since 2017 at a temperature of about 10 mK. This result has been attained by the use of an unprecedentedly large cryogenic infrastructure called the CUORE cryostat: conceived, designed and commissioned for this purpose. In this article the main characteristics and features of the cryogenic facility developed for the CUORE experiment are highlighted. A brief introduction of the evolution of the field and of the past cryogenic facilities are given. The motivation behind the design and development of the CUORE cryogenic facility is detailed as are the steps taken toward realization, commissioning, and operation of the CUORE cryostat. The major challenges overcome by the collaboration and the solutions implemented throughout the building of the cryogenic facility will be discussed along with the potential improvements for future facilities. The success of CUORE has opened the door to a new generation of large-scale cryogenic facilities in numerous fields of science. Broader implications of the incredible feat achieved by the CUORE collaboration on the future cryogenic facilities in various fields ranging from neutrino and dark matter experiments to quantum computing will be examined., Comment: 45 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2022
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22. Characterization of cubic Li 2100 MoO 4 crystals for the CUPID experiment

Author: Federico Ferri, Stefano Dell'Oro, J. Camilleri, V. Shlegel, N. Casali, R. Rizzoli, F. Bellini, A. Ressa, J. A. Scarpaci, C. Augier, Goran Karapetrov, G. Fantini, P. Gras, M. I. Martínez, F.A. Danevich, L. Pagnanini, P. T. Surukuchi, A. Drobizhev, S. H. Fu, C. Oriol, I. Dafinei, T. O'Donnell, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, P. Loaiza, Jie Yang, S. Copello, Haiping Peng, Oliviero Cremonesi, L. Wang, A. Franceschi, C. Pagliarone, Davide Chiesa, Paolo Carniti, A. Juillard, Andrea Barresi, V.I. Tretyak, E. V. Hansen, M. Xue, S. Zucchelli, C. Pira, O. G. Polischuk, X. F. Navick, R. J. Creswick, L. Marini, K. Wilson, I. Colantoni, D. Misiak, C. Rusconi, J. Billard, D. V. Poda, J. Johnston, Jonathan Ouellet, A. Charrier, A. Cruciani, S. L. Wagaarachchi, G. Bari, F. Collamati, V. Yumatov, J. Gascon, C. C. Chang, Stefano Nisi, Changbo Fu, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, L. Pattavina, S. Marnieros, Jie Zhang, G. Wang, G. D'Imperio, A. Cazes, Yuting Liu, E. Celi, Massimiliano Clemenza, A. Tsymbaliuk, Monica Sisti, Valentyn Novosad, I. Nutini, S. Milana, R. Nipoti, C. Nones, A. Puiu, M. Chapellier, H. Z. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, R. Mariam, B. Schmidt, G. Keppel, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, D. Mayer, O. Tellier, L. Ma, Y. Mei, R. G. Huang, F. Mancarella, M. Faverzani, L. Dumoulin, M. Madhukuttan, H. Khalife, M. Gros, Kai Vetter, S. Di Domizio, D. Baudin, P. Pari, A. Armatol, Giovanni Benato, M. Beretta, Tomas Polakovic, L. Taffarello, Virendra Singh, Danielle Speller, Laura Cardani, K. M. Heeger, B. K. Fujikawa, E. Olivieri, Eric B. Norman, L. Yan, T. Napolitano, S. Pagan, M. Biassoni, B. Mauri, V. Pettinacci, M. de Combarieu, O. Azzolini, M. M. Zarytskyy, A. Giachero, Claudio Gotti, S. I. Konovalov, L. Gironi, Lindley Winslow, M. Pavan, James Nikkel, F. T. Avignone, Whitney Armstrong, V. Sanglard, L. Imbert, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, C. Brofferio, A. S. Barabash, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, P. de Marcillac, D. L. Helis, A. S. Zolotarova, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, B. Paul, A. Giuliani, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, James R. Wilson, M. De Jesus, E. Armengaud, V. Sharma, Matias Velázquez, V. V. Kobychev, L. Bergé, A. Branca, C. Rosenfeld, V. Boldrini, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Emanuele Ferri, Joseph A. Formaggio, S. Pozzi, V. Dompè, A. D'Addabbo, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CUPID, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Armatol A., Armengaud E., Armstrong W., Augier C., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Barabash A., Bari G., Barresi A., Baudin D., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Berge L., Biassoni M., Billard J., Boldrini V., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Camilleri J., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cazes A., Celi E., Chang C., Chapellier M., Charrier A., Chiesa D., Clemenza M., Colantoni I., Collamati F., Copello S., Cremonesi O., J.Creswick R., Cruciani A., D'Addabbo A., D'Imperio G., Dafinei I., A.Danevich F., deCombarieu M., DeJesus M., deMarcillac P., Dell'Oro S., DiDomizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Dumoulin L., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferri F., Ferroni F., Figueroa-Feliciano E., Formaggio J., Franceschi A., Fu C., Fu S., Fujikawa B.K., Gascon J., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gras P., Gros M., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Helis D.L., Huang H.Z., Huang R.G., Imbert L., Johnston J., Juillard A., Karapetrov G., Keppel G., Khalife H., Kobychev V.V., Kolomensky Y.G., Konovalov S., Liu Y., Loaiza P., Ma L., Madhukuttan M., Mancarella F., Mariam R., Marini L., Marnieros S., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mauri B., Mayer D., Mei Y., Milana S., Misiak D., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Navick X.F., Nikkel J., Nipoti R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novosad V., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olivieri E., Oriol C., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C., Pagnanini L., Pari P., Pattavina L., Paul B., Pavan M., Peng H., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., V.Poda D., Polakovic T., Polischuk O.G., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Ressa A., Rizzoli R., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sanglard V., Scarpaci J.A., Schmidt B., Sharma V., Shlegel V., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tellier O., Tomei C., Tretyak V.I., Tsymbaliuk A., Velazquez M., Vetter K.J., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang G., Wang L., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Xue M., Yan L., Yang J., Yefremenko V., Yumatov V., Zarytskyy M.M., Zhang J., Zolotarova A., Zucchelli S., Armatol, A, Armengaud, E, Armstrong, W, Augier, C, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Barabash, A, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camilleri, J, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chapellier, M, Charrier, A, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Collamati, F, Copello, S, Cremonesi, O, J. Creswick, R, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dafinei, I, A. Danevich, F, Decombarieu, M, Dejesus, M, Demarcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Didomizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gras, P, Gros, M, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Mariam, R, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Misiak, D, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Navick, X, Nikkel, J, Nipoti, R, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivieri, E, Oriol, C, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, V. Poda, D, Polakovic, T, Polischuk, O, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Ressa, A, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sanglard, V, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tellier, O, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, G, Wang, L, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Yumatov, V, Zarytskyy, M, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: Mo-100, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), background: induced, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, measurement methods, bolometers, neutrinoless double beta decay, energy resolution, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Double Beta Decay, Nuclear Experiment, background: suppression, Physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), molybdenum: oxygen, Double-beta decay detector, Low Temperature Detector, lithium, Scintillation counter, Neutrino, photon: yield, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, bolometers, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenic detector, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], neutrinoless double beta decay, Particle identification method, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, CUPID, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), scintillation counter, Scintillation, molybdenum: nuclide, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, bibliography, crystal: geometry, Computational physics, efficiency, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: The CUPID Collaboration is designing a tonne-scale, background-free detector to search for double beta decay with sufficient sensitivity to fully explore the parameter space corresponding to the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy scenario. One of the CUPID demonstrators, CUPID-Mo, has proved the potential of enriched Li$$_{2}$$ 2 $$^{100}$$ 100 MoO$$_4$$ 4 crystals as suitable detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay search. In this work, we characterised cubic crystals that, compared to the cylindrical crystals used by CUPID-Mo, are more appealing for the construction of tightly packed arrays. We measured an average energy resolution of ($$6.7\pm 0.6$$ 6.7 ± 0.6 ) keV FWHM in the region of interest, approaching the CUPID target of 5 keV FWHM. We assessed the identification of $$\alpha $$ α particles with and without a reflecting foil that enhances the scintillation light collection efficiency, proving that the baseline design of CUPID already ensures a complete suppression of this $$\alpha $$ α -induced background contribution. We also used the collected data to validate a Monte Carlo simulation modelling the light collection efficiency, which will enable further optimisations of the detector.
Published: 2021
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23. Novel technique for the study of pileup events in cryogenic bolometers

Author: Valentyn Novosad, Andrea Giachero, R. Nipoti, Jie Zhang, H. Z. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, G. Keppel, D. Mayer, C. Nones, A. Puiu, S. Nisi, A. Armatol, K. Wilson, I. Colantoni, A. Barresi, P. Loaiza, C. Oriol, G. Pessina, V. Sanglard, L. Imbert, M. Faverzani, M. Beretta, S. Copello, C. Pagliarone, F.A. Danevich, A. Branca, Jonathan Ouellet, T. O'Donnell, Paolo Carniti, Massimiliano Clemenza, G. Bari, S. Di Domizio, Kai Vetter, C. Rosenfeld, D. L. Helis, Monica Sisti, Federico Ferri, H. Khalife, V. Boldrini, P. Gorla, P. Pari, F. Ferroni, Tomas Polakovic, B. Schmidt, Stefano Dell'Oro, A. Charrier, J. Billard, C. Tomei, S. H. Fu, N. Casali, Laura Cardani, G. Wang, Jie Yang, B. K. Fujikawa, R. J. Creswick, Davide Chiesa, P. Gras, M. Chapellier, C. Pira, Joseph A. Formaggio, L. Pagnanini, P. T. Surukuchi, C. Brofferio, L. Wang, Massimiliano Nastasi, Stefano Pozzi, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, Haiping Peng, V. Shlegel, V. Sharma, E. V. Hansen, A. S. Barabash, B. Paul, M. Gros, Evelyn Ferri, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. Zucchelli, James Nikkel, Ezio Previtali, J. Gascon, R. Mariam, C. C. Chang, L. Ma, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, L. Taffarello, B. Welliver, A. Giuliani, M. Madhukuttan, Matias Velázquez, C. Augier, S. Marnieros, V. Yumatov, Goran Karapetrov, G. Fantini, A. Cazes, Danielle Speller, James R. Wilson, A. Cruciani, X. F. Navick, S. Pirro, V. V. Kobychev, J. Camilleri, A. Franceschi, Changbo Fu, C. Rusconi, J. A. Scarpaci, A. Juillard, L. Bergé, R. Rizzoli, M. M. Zarytskyy, V. Dompè, G. D'Imperio, Irene Nutini, A. D'Addabbo, P. de Marcillac, M. De Jesus, O. G. Polischuk, F. Bellini, A. Ressa, D. Baudin, M. Xue, M. Pavan, Lindley Winslow, A. Drobizhev, I. Dafinei, S. L. Wagaarachchi, F. Collamati, V. Pettinacci, Simone Capelli, E. Olivieri, S. I. Konovalov, Eric B. Norman, L. Pattavina, M. I. Martínez, T. Napolitano, L. Marini, V.I. Tretyak, D. Misiak, D. V. Poda, J. Johnston, M. Biassoni, E. Armengaud, Vasundhara Singh, S. Milana, O. Azzolini, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, Whitney Armstrong, Y. Liu, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, R. G. Huang, F. Mancarella, L. Yan, S. Pagan, B. Mauri, M. de Combarieu, E. Celi, C. Gotti, A. S. Zolotarova, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, A. Tsymbaliuk, Y. Mei, K. M. Heeger, O. Tellier, L. Dumoulin, Giovanni Benato, Armatol A., Armengaud E., Armstrong W., Augier C., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Barabash A., Bari G., Barresi A., Baudin D., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Berge L., Biassoni M., Billard J., Boldrini V., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Camilleri J., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cazes A., Celi E., Chang C., Chapellier M., Charrier A., Chiesa D., Clemenza M., Colantoni I., Collamati F., Copello S., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cruciani A., D'Addabbo A., D'Imperio G., Dafinei I., Danevich F.A., De Combarieu M., De Jesus M., De Marcillac P., Dell'Oro S., Di Domizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Dumoulin L., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferri F., Ferroni F., Figueroa-Feliciano E., Formaggio J., Franceschi A., Fu C., Fu S., Fujikawa B.K., Gascon J., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gras P., Gros M., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Helis D.L., Huang H.Z., Huang R.G., Imbert L., Johnston J., Juillard A., Karapetrov G., Keppel G., Khalife H., Kobychev V.V., Kolomensky Y.G., Konovalov S., Liu Y., Loaiza P., Ma L., Madhukuttan M., Mancarella F., Mariam R., Marini L., Marnieros S., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mauri B., Mayer D., Mei Y., Milana S., Misiak D., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Navick X.F., Nikkel J., Nipoti R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novosad V., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olivieri E., Oriol C., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C., Pagnanini L., Pari P., Pattavina L., Paul B., Pavan M., Peng H., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., Poda D.V., Polakovic T., Polischuk O.G., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Ressa A., Rizzoli R., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sanglard V., Scarpaci J., Schmidt B., Sharma V., Shlegel V., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tellier O., Tomei C., Tretyak V.I., Tsymbaliuk A., Velazquez M., Vetter K.J., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang G., Wang L., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Xue M., Yan L., Yang J., Yefremenko V., Yumatov V., Zarytskyy M.M., Zhang J., Zolotarova A., Zucchelli S., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CUPID, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Armatol, A, Armengaud, E, Armstrong, W, Augier, C, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Barabash, A, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camilleri, J, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chapellier, M, Charrier, A, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Collamati, F, Copello, S, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dafinei, I, Danevich, F, De Combarieu, M, De Jesus, M, De Marcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Di Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gras, P, Gros, M, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Mariam, R, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Misiak, D, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Navick, X, Nikkel, J, Nipoti, R, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivieri, E, Oriol, C, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Poda, D, Polakovic, T, Polischuk, O, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Ressa, A, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sanglard, V, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tellier, O, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, G, Wang, L, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Yumatov, V, Zarytskyy, M, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: data analysis method, double beta decay, nuclear tests of fundamental interactions, Particle decays, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, double beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenics, MESH: numerical calculation, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, benchmark, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic engineering, MESH: benchmark, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], numerical calculations, 010306 general physics, time resolution, nuclear tests of fundamental interactions, Physics, Signal generator, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Detector, Time resolution, MESH: data analysis method, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), MESH: bolometer, Gran Sasso, Neutrinoless Double Beta decay, Neutrino Physics, MESH: cryogenics, efficiency, cryogenics, pile-up, Rise time, MESH: Gran Sasso, Benchmark (computing), MESH: double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Neutrinoless double-beta decay, MESH: efficiency, Particle decays, MESH: time resolution, MESH: pile-up
Abstract: International audience; Precise characterization of detector time resolution is of crucial importance for next-generation cryogenic-bolometer experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, such as CUPID, in order to reject background due to pile-up of two-neutrino double-beta decay events. In this paper, we describe a technique developed to study the pile-up rejection capability of cryogenic bolometers. Our approach, which consists of producing controlled pile-up events with a programmable waveform generator, has the benefit that we can reliably and reproducibly control the time separation and relative energy of the individual components of the generated pile-up events. The resulting data allow us to optimize and benchmark analysis strategies to discriminate between individual and pile-up pulses. We describe a test of this technique performed with a small array of detectors at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in Italy; we obtain a 90% rejection efficiency against pulser-generated pile-up events with rise time of ~15 ms down to time separation between the individual events of 2 ms.
Published: 2021
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24. A CUPID Li$_2$ $^{100} $MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility

Author: A. S. Barabash, V. Yumatov, G. D'Imperio, M. De Deo, Ezio Previtali, J. M. Calvo-Mozota, Evelyn Ferri, B. Welliver, L. Gironi, L. Marini, E. Guerard, D. Misiak, D. V. Poda, J. Johnston, V. Dompè, F. T. Avignone, Whitney Armstrong, A. Charrier, O. Tellier, I. Colantoni, A. D'Addabbo, S. Di Domizio, P. Pari, Tomas Polakovic, Massimiliano Clemenza, V. Shlegel, R. Mariam, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, Monica Sisti, M. Pavan, S. Zucchelli, Laura Cardani, P. de Marcillac, C. Augier, Goran Karapetrov, X.-F. Navick, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, L. Pagnanini, P. T. Surukuchi, O. Azzolini, G. Fantini, Federico Ferri, B. Schmidt, C. Oriol, C. Pagliarone, E. Celi, T. O'Donnell, S. H. Fu, S. Dell'Oro, Giovanni Benato, M. Xue, Yuting Liu, Ch. Bourgeois, C. C. Chang, Stefano Nisi, James R. Wilson, S. Milana, G. Olivier, A. Cruciani, A. Franceschi, Changbo Fu, I. Dafinei, M. Chapellier, C. Gotti, S. Copello, C. Brofferio, S. Pirro, Jie Yang, V. Sharma, D. L. Helis, A. Barresi, J. Camilleri, R. Rizzoli, L. Ma, L. Dumoulin, Davide Chiesa, A. S. Zolotarova, Paolo Carniti, V. Pettinacci, A. Juillard, A. Candela, M. Gros, M. Madhukuttan, I. C. Bandac, M. De Jesus, E. V. Hansen, O. G. Polischuk, A. Drobizhev, Ke Han, F. Bellini, A. Ressa, Reina H. Maruyama, V.I. Tretyak, F.A. Danevich, J. A. Scarpaci, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, M. Faverzani, Matias Velázquez, P. Loaiza, Kai Vetter, Massimiliano Nastasi, S. I. Konovalov, L. Taffarello, D. Reynet, V. V. Kobychev, L. Bergé, J. Gascon, V. Sanglard, L. Yan, L. Imbert, Virendra Singh, M. M. Zarytskyy, Valentyn Novosad, C. Rosenfeld, Danielle Speller, Andrea Giachero, N. Casali, A. Branca, L. Pattavina, A. Ianni, E. Olivieri, R. J. Creswick, Eric B. Norman, V. Boldrini, P. Gras, K. Wilson, S. Pagan, J. Billard, S. Marnieros, Li Wang, T. Napolitano, R. Nipoti, A. Cazes, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, C. Tomei, C. Pira, Haiping Peng, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. Biassoni, D. Mayer, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, Lindley Winslow, M. de Combarieu, Joseph A. Formaggio, A. Tsymbaliuk, Y. Mei, A. Armatol, K. M. Heeger, R. G. Huang, F. Mancarella, B. Paul, M. I. Martínez, G. Pessina, Jie Zhang, C. Nones, A. Puiu, A. Giuliani, B. Mauri, James Nikkel, Irene Nutini, G. Wang, H. Z. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, G. Keppel, H. Khalife, E. Armengaud, D. Baudin, M. Beretta, S. L. Wagaarachchi, F. Collamati, Simone Capelli, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CUPID, CROSS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Armatol A., Armengaud E., Armstrong W., Augier C., Iii F.T.A., Azzolini O., Bandac I.C., Barabash A.S., Bari G., Barresi A., Baudin D., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Berge L., Bourgeois C., Biassoni M., Billard J., Boldrini V., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Calvo-Mozota J.M., Camilleri J., Candela A., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cazes A., Celi E., Chang C., Chapellier M., Charrier A., Chiesa D., Clemenza M., Colantoni I., Collamati F., Copello S., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cruciani A., D'Addabbo A., D'Imperio G., Dafinei I., Danevich F.A., De Combarieu M., Deo M.D., Jesus M.D., De Marcillac P., Dell'Oro S., Domizio S.D., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Dumoulin L., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferri F., Ferroni F., Figueroa-Feliciano E., Formaggio J., Franceschi A., Fu C., Fu S., Fujikawa B.K., Gascon J., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gras P., Gros M., Guerard E., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Helis D.L., Huang H.Z., Huang R.G., Ianni A., Imbert L., Johnston J., Juillard A., Karapetrov G., Keppel G., Khalife H., Kobychev V.V., Kolomensky Y.G., Konovalov S.I., Liu Y., Loaiza P., Ma L., Madhukuttan M., Mancarella F., Mariam R., Marini L., Marnieros S., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mauri B., Mayer D., Mei Y., Milana S., Misiak D., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Navick X.-F., Nikkel J., Nipoti R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novosad V., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olivier G., Olivieri E., Oriol C., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C., Pagnanini L., Pari P., Pattavina L., Paul B., Pavan M., Peng H., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., Poda D.V., Polakovic T., Polischuk O.G., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Ressa A., Reynet D., Rizzoli R., Rosenfeld C., Sanglard V., Scarpaci J.A., Schmidt B., Sharma V., Shlegel V.N., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tellier O., Tomei C., Tretyak V.I., Tsymbaliuk A., Velazquez M., Vetter K.J., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang G., Wang L., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Xue M., Yan L., Yang J., Yefremenko V., Yumatov V.I., Zarytskyy M.M., Zhang J., Zolotarova A.S., Zucchelli S., Armatol, A, Armengaud, E, Armstrong, W, Augier, C, Avignone F. T., I, Azzolini, O, Bandac, I, Barabash, A, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Bourgeois, C, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Calvo-Mozota, J, Camilleri, J, Candela, A, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chapellier, M, Charrier, A, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Collamati, F, Copello, S, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dafinei, I, Danevich, F, De Combarieu, M, Deo, M, Jesus, M, De Marcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gras, P, Gros, M, Guerard, E, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Ianni, A, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Mariam, R, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Misiak, D, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Navick, X, Nikkel, J, Nipoti, R, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivier, G, Olivieri, E, Oriol, C, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Poda, D, Polakovic, T, Polischuk, O, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Ressa, A, Reynet, D, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Sanglard, V, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tellier, O, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, G, Wang, L, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Yumatov, V, Zarytskyy, M, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: gas and liquid scintillators), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Accurate estimation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Bolometer, Analytical chemistry, Double-beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenic detector, Radiopurity, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, Particle identification, Particle identification methods, 03 medical and health sciences, Particle identification method, 0302 clinical medicine, CUORE, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detector array, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Event triggered, Physics, Lithium molybdate, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Double-beta decay detectors, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, Double-beta decay detector, Cryogenic detectors, Scintillators, Crystal scintillator, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: A scintillating bolometer based on a large cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal (45 mm side) and a Ge wafer (scintillation detector) has been operated in the CROSS cryogenic facility at the Canfranc underground laboratory in Spain. The dual-readout detector is a prototype of the technology that will be used in the next-generation $0\nu2\beta$ experiment CUPID. The measurements were performed at 18 and 12 mK temperature in a pulse tube dilution refrigerator. This setup utilizes the same technology as the CUORE cryostat that will host CUPID and so represents an accurate estimation of the expected performance. The Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometer shows a high energy resolution of 6 keV FWHM at the 2615 keV $\gamma$ line. The detection of scintillation light for each event triggered by the Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometer allowed for a full separation ($\sim$8$\sigma$) between $\gamma$($\beta$) and $\alpha$ events above 2 MeV. The Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal also shows a high internal radiopurity with $^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra activities of less than 3 and 8 $\mu$Bq/kg, respectively. Taking also into account the advantage of a more compact and massive detector array, which can be made of cubic-shaped crystals (compared to the cylindrical ones), this test demonstrates the great potential of cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for high-sensitivity searches for the $^{100}$Mo $0\nu2\beta$ decay in CROSS and CUPID projects., Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Published: 2021
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25. Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of130Te with CUORE

Author: A. De Biasi, M. Balata, N. Casali, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, F. Orio, Carlo Ligi, Alan R. Smith, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, M. Tenconi, B. S. Wang, B. X. Zhu, M. Faverzani, Massimiliano Clemenza, Davide Chiesa, O. Azzolini, M. Carrettoni, Marco Pallavicini, H. A. Farach, V. Pettinacci, A. Giuliani, G. Bari, X. Liu, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, James R. Wilson, L. Cardani, N. Chott, G. Fernandes, N. Moggi, Oliviero Cremonesi, G. Pessina, Stuart Freedman, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, Jeffrey W. Beeman, J. Goett, Yingqi Ma, T. Wise, R. J. Creswick, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Monica Sisti, Y. L. Li, A. Bersani, V. Rampazzo, Marisa Pedretti, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, H. Z. Huang, A. Nucciotti, G. Piperno, Elena Sala, Y. Mei, V. Palmieri, A. Dally, Yu G. Kolomensky, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, Eric B. Norman, Ettore Fiorini, Silvio Morganti, L. Gironi, A. Woodcraft, T. I. Banks, C. Maiano, S. Pirro, T. Napolitano, G. Ventura, S. Trentalange, Lindley Winslow, F. T. Avignone, Nicholas Scielzo, Andrea Giachero, X. Z. Cai, F. Terranova, S. Di Domizio, M. Biassoni, C. Zarra, L. Wielgus, W. D. Tian, M. M. Deninno, M. Maino, B. K. Fujikawa, Claudio Gotti, L. Taffarello, C. Nones, J. L. Ouellet, K. Kazkaz, M. L. Di Vacri, H. W. Wang, C. Cosmelli, T. O'Donnell, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, M. Vignati, C. Rusconi, S. Copello, S. Zucchelli, C. Pira, Larissa M. Ejzak, F. Bellini, D. Orlandi, M. A. Franceschi, C. Brofferio, Alejandro E. Camacho, D. Q. Fang, L. Carbone, Ezio Previtali, L. Pattavina, L. Zanotti, L. Canonica, M. I. Martínez, M. Pavan, Ioan Dafinei, Vladimir Datskov, C. Rosenfeld, Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T.I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X.Z., Camacho, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X.G., Capelli, S., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Carrettoni, M., Casali, N., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Datskov, V., De Biasi, A., Deninno, M.M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M.L., Ejzak, L., Fang, D.Q., Farach, H.A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M.A., Freedman, S.J., Fujikawa, B.K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Goett, J., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Han, K., Heeger, K.M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Huang, H.Z., Kadel, R., Kazkaz, K., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu.G., Li, Y.L., Ligi, C., Liu, X., Ma, Y.G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R.H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J.L., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Previtali, E., Rampazzo, V., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Scielzo, N.D., Sisti, M., Smith, A.R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tian, W.D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wang, B.S., Wang, H.W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L.A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhu, B.X., Zucchelli, S., Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Camacho, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carrettoni, M, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, De Biasi, A, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Ejzak, L, Fang, D, Farach, H, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Goett, J, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Kazkaz, K, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rampazzo, V, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhu, B, and Zucchelli, S
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
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., Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures. Published in Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 879871
Published: 2015
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26. Neutrinoless double-beta decay search with CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments

Author: Oliviero Cremonesi, F. Orio, B. S. Wang, O. Azzolini, A. Caminata, Alan R. Smith, C. Pira, L. Pattavina, Nicholas Scielzo, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, A. Bersani, C. Tomei, Guoqiang Zhang, Emanuele Ferri, N. Casali, Eugene E. Haller, Larissa M. Ejzak, M. M. Deninno, B. X. Zhu, T. I. Banks, S. Pirro, L. Gironi, Ke Han, F. T. Avignone, Reina H. Maruyama, G. Piperno, Stuart J. Freedman, A. Camacho, A. Woodcraft, Jeremy S. Cushman, Lucia Canonica, F. Bellini, D. Santone, Ioan Dafinei, C. Nones, Davide Chiesa, K. E. Lim, M. I. Martínez, Y. L. Li, C. Rosenfeld, V. Palmieri, M. Maino, S. Zucchelli, A. Giuliani, H. Z. Huang, M. Tenconi, N. Moggi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, R. J. Creswick, J. L. Ouellet, F. Terranova, L. Carbone, A. Dally, Eric B. Norman, H. W. Wang, Ezio Previtali, C. Pagliarone, L. Zanotti, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, Claudio Gotti, S. Trentalange, C. Bucci, T. O'Donnell, H. A. Farach, T. Wise, Silvio Morganti, T. Napolitano, G. Bari, T. D. Gutierrez, A. Nucciotti, Kevin Hickerson, Marco Pallavicini, James R. Wilson, Elena Sala, Y. Mei, M. Faverzani, L. Taffarello, M. Balata, G. Fernandes, G. Pessina, S. Di Domizio, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, M. Biassoni, N. Chott, R. Hennings-Yeomans, C. Zarra, Xi-Guang Cao, B. K. Fujikawa, K. M. Heeger, Stefano Pozzi, Monica Sisti, M. Vignati, S. Copello, C. Maiano, D. Q. Fang, A. Drobizhev, D. Orlandi, M. A. Franceschi, G. Ventura, Ettore Fiorini, Andrea Giachero, M. Pavan, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, C. Brofferio, W. D. Tian, M. L. Di Vacri, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, Stefano Dell'Oro, X. Liu, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, Lorenzo Cassina, Carlo Ligi, Vladimir Datskov, Yu-Gang Ma, L. Wielgus, C. Rusconi, Lindley Winslow, X. Z. Cai, V. Pettinacci, L. Cardani, Moggi, N., Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T.I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X.Z., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X.G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Cushman, J.S., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Datskov, V., Dell'Oro, S., Deninno, M.M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M.L., Drobizhev, A., Ejzak, L., Fang, D.Q., Farach, H.A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M.A., Freedman, S.J., Fujikawa, B.K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Han, K., Heeger, K.M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K.P., Huang, H.Z., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Li, Y.L., Ligi, C., Lim, K.E., Liu, X., Ma, Y.G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R.H., Mei, Y., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J.L., Pagliarone, C.E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Santone, D., Scielzo, N.D., Sisti, M., Smith, A.R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tian, W.D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wang, B.S., Wang, H.W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L.A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhang, G.Q., Zhu, B.X., Zucchelli, S., European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CSNSM PS1, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DAM Île-de-France (DAM/DIF), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Fabbri, F, Giacomelli, P, Moggi, N, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Ejzak, L, Fang, D, Farach, H, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: Particle physics, QC1-999, double beta decay, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all). CONTAMINATION, Physics and Astronomy (all), CUORE, bolometer, Observatory, law, Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE), Laboratorio Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Mass scale, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], 010306 general physics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, BOLOMETERS, Bolometer, CONTAMINATION, MAJORANA, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], Neutrino
Abstract: International audience; The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment designed to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decays. Observation of the process would unambiguously establish that neutrinos are Majorana particles and provide information on their absolute mass scale hierarchy. CUORE is now under construction and will consist of an array of 988 TeO2 crystal bolometers operated at 10 mK, but the first tower (CUORE-0) is already taking data. The experimental techniques used will be presented as well as the preliminary CUORE-0 results. The current status of the full-mass experiment and its expected sensitivity will then be discussed.
Published: 2016
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27. CUORE-0 detector: design, construction and operation

Author: N. Casali, R. Mazza, S. Zimmermann, C. Rosenfeld, G. Ventura, M. I. Martínez, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, G. Ceruti, A. Leder, Alan R. Smith, S. Copello, L. Ioannucci, Paolo Carniti, M. Iannone, David Miller, Massimiliano Nastasi, S. L. Wagaarachchi, R. Gaigher, M. Maino, H. W. Wang, C. Cosmelli, T. O'Donnell, Yu-Gang Ma, C. Nones, D. Conventi, A. Giuliani, S. Trentalange, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, B. X. Zhu, Massimiliano Clemenza, S. Di Domizio, G. Fernandes, L. Tatananni, G. Piperno, Ettore Fiorini, R. Michinelli, Davide Chiesa, Claudio Gotti, C. Zarra, K. E. Lim, S. Zucchelli, N. Moggi, F. Orio, Vasundhara Singh, B. K. Fujikawa, James R. Wilson, N. Chott, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, Stefano Pozzi, A. Nucciotti, C. J. Davis, Oliviero Cremonesi, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Monica Sisti, C. Brofferio, C. Alduino, P. J. Mosteiro, K. Alfonso, F. Bragazzi, G. Erme, M. L. Di Vacri, T. I. Banks, G. Bari, B. S. Wang, Y. u. G. Kolomensky, D. Santone, Ioan Dafinei, L. Carbone, A. Bersani, Marco Pallavicini, O. Azzolini, Lindley Winslow, M. Vignati, M. Cariello, M. Balata, H. Z. Huang, L. Taffarello, G. Pessina, Stefano Dell'Oro, M. Pavan, L. Zanotti, E. V. Hansen, X. Liu, Luigi Cappelli, R. Pedrotta, Nicholas Scielzo, A. Caminata, J. Wallig, Ezio Previtali, Lorenzo Cassina, A. Pelosi, Jeremy S. Cushman, C. Bulfon, F. Stivanello, C. Rusconi, M. Faverzani, V. Pettinacci, R. Cereseto, L. Pattavina, L. Cardani, G. Pancaldi, D. Biare, M. Perego, L. Canonica, L. Marini, Kevin Hickerson, A. Buccheri, A. Giachero, M. Capodiferro, D. Q. Fang, V. Palmieri, Eric B. Norman, J. W. Beeman, S. Meijer, Silvio Morganti, M. Guetti, Guoqiang Zhang, M. Biassoni, J. L. Ouellet, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, A. Drobizhev, Stuart J. Freedman, C. Pagliarone, D. Orlandi, T. Wise, A. Chiarini, S. Pirro, F. Terranova, Elena Sala, Y. Mei, M. Tessaro, L. Gladstone, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Xi-Guang Cao, R. J. Creswick, K. M. Heeger, M. M. Deninno, F. Bellini, M. Tenconi, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, L. DiPaolo, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, A. D'Addabbo, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CUORE, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Artusa, D, Iii, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biare, D, Biassoni, M, Bragazzi, F, Brofferio, C, Buccheri, A, Bucci, C, Bulfon, C, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Capodiferro, M, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Cariello, M, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Cereseto, R, Ceruti, G, Chiarini, A, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Conventi, D, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, D'Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Domizio, S, Vacri, M, Dipaolo, L, Drobizhev, A, Erme, G, Fang, D, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Gaigher, R, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gladstone, L, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Guetti, M, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Iannone, M, Ioannucci, L, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Leder, A, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maino, M, Marini, L, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mazza, R, Mei, Y, Meijer, S, Michinelli, R, Miller, D, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Mosteiro, P, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pancaldi, G, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedrotta, R, Pelosi, A, Perego, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Scielzo, N, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Stivanello, F, Taffarello, L, Tatananni, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tessaro, M, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wallig, J, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, Zimmermann, S, Zucchelli, S, Cuore, Collaboration, Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Artusa, D. R., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T. I., Bari, G., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biare, D., Biassoni, M., Bragazzi, F., Brofferio, C., Buccheri, A., Bucci, C., Bulfon, C., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X. G., Capelli, S., Capodiferro, M., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Cariello, M., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Cereseto, R., Ceruti, G., Chiarini, A., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Conventi, D., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cushman, J. S., Dafinei, I., Davis, C. J., Dell'Oro, S., Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Dipaolo, L., Drobizhev, A., Erme, G., Fang, D. Q., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Gaigher, R., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gladstone, L., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Guetti, M., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E., Han, K., Hansen, E., Heeger, K. M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K. P., Huang, H. Z., Iannone, M., Ioannucci, L., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Leder, A., Lim, K. E., Liu, X., Ma, Y. G., Maino, M., Marini, L., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mazza, R., Mei, Y., Meijer, S., Michinelli, R., Miller, D., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Mosteiro, P. J., Nastasi, M., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pancaldi, G., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedrotta, R., Pelosi, A., Perego, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Santone, D., Scielzo, N. D., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Stivanello, F., Taffarello, L., Tatananni, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tessaro, M., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wallig, J., Wang, B. S., Wang, H. W., Wilson, J., Winslow, L. A., Wise, T., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhang, G. Q., Zhu, B. X., Zimmermann, S., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: J.2, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cryogenics, Cryogenic, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], CUORE Experiment, 01 natural sciences, tellurium: oxygen, Calorimeters, Double-beta decay detectors, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, CUORE, bolometer, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Double Beta Decay (0 Neutrino), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, detector: design, Physics, Cryogenic Engineering, Calorimeter, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Bolometers, Cryostat, Double-beta decay detector, tellurium: nuclide, Physics - Instrumentation and Detector, Bolometers, Cryogenic Engineering, Double Beta Decay (0 Neutrino), CUORE Experiment, Neutrino Physics, Cryostat, Humanities, Tellurium compounds
Abstract: The CUORE experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{130}$Te with an array of 988 TeO$_2$ bolometers arranged in 19 towers. CUORE-0, the first tower assembled according to the CUORE procedures, was built and commissioned at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, and took data from March 2013 to March 2015. In this paper we describe the design, construction and operation of the CUORE-0 experiment, with an emphasis on the improvements made over a predecessor experiment, Cuoricino. In particular, we demonstrate with CUORE-0 data that the design goals of CUORE are within reach., Comment: 39 pages, 26 figures
Published: 2016
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28. Status of the CUORE and results from the CUORE-0 neutrinoless double beta decay experiments

Author: M. M. Deninno, S. Di Domizio, C. Zarra, Lucia Canonica, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, Stefano Dell'Oro, F. Bellini, X. Liu, Massimiliano Nastasi, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, A. Giuliani, T. I. Banks, N. Casali, S. Pirro, M. Vignati, A. Bersani, F. Orio, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, C. Rosenfeld, M. Balata, G. Bari, Vladimir Datskov, L. Pattavina, G. Ventura, S. Trentalange, S. Copello, N. Moggi, C. Nones, Yu-Gang Ma, B. S. Wang, R. J. Creswick, P. Gorla, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, O. Azzolini, Y. L. Li, Oliviero Cremonesi, Marisa Pedretti, A. Nucciotti, C. Brofferio, H. Z. Huang, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, M. Tenconi, Emanuele Ferri, Ettore Fiorini, H. A. Farach, Andrea Giachero, M. Faverzani, Eugene E. Haller, G. Fernandes, L. Taffarello, Marco Pallavicini, Jeremy S. Cushman, W. D. Tian, Alan R. Smith, N. Chott, G. Pessina, M. L. Di Vacri, Davide Chiesa, K. E. Lim, Nicholas Scielzo, A. Camacho, S. Zucchelli, L. Carbone, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, Guimin Zhang, Jeffrey W. Beeman, John Wilson, A. Dally, Claudio Gotti, M. Maino, C. Pira, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, Simone Capelli, H. W. Wang, R. W. Kadel, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Larissa M. Ejzak, B. X. Zhu, T. O'Donnell, Monica Sisti, Lorenzo Cassina, V. Pettinacci, L. Cardani, C. Maiano, Lindley Winslow, X. Z. Cai, L. Wielgus, Carlo Ligi, C. Rusconi, G. Piperno, S. Morganti, M. I. Martínez, Ioan Dafinei, L. Zanotti, M. Pavan, A. Drobizhev, D. Orlandi, Kevin Hickerson, M. A. Franceschi, D. Q. Fang, C. Pagliarone, T. Wise, V. Palmieri, A. Caminata, Elena Sala, Ezio Previtali, Y. Mei, Eric B. Norman, T. Napolitano, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, M. Biassoni, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, Stuart J. Freedman, J. L. Ouellet, A. Woodcraft, F. Terranova, Sisti, M, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Ejzak, L, Fang, D, Farach, H, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, Zucchelli, S, Sisti, M., Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T.I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X.Z., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X.G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Cushman, J.S., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Datskov, V., Dell'Oro, S., Deninno, M.M., Di Domizio, S., di Vacri, M.L., Drobizhev, A., Ejzak, L., Fang, D.Q., Farach, H.A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M.A., Freedman, S.J., Fujikawa, B.K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Han, K., Heeger, K.M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K.P., Huang, H.Z., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu.G., Li, Y.L., Ligi, C., Lim, K.E., Liu, X., Ma, Y.G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R.H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J.L., Pagliarone, C.E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, Stefano, Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Scielzo, N.D., Smith, A.R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tian, W.D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wang, B.S., Wang, H.W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L.A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhang, G.Q., Zhu, B.X., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Bolometers, 01 natural sciences, Beta decay, Double beta decay, Particle detector, Massless particle, Nuclear physics, CUORE, Neutrino mass, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino ma, Radioactive decay, Lepton
Abstract: CUORE is a 741kg array of TeO 2 bolometers for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay of 130 Te. The detectoris being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If thetarget background of 0.01counts/(keVkgy) will be reached, in ﬁve years of data taking CUORE will have a 1˙halflife sensitivity of 10 26 y. CUORE-0 is a smaller experiment constructed to test and demonstrate the performancesexpected for CUORE. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring2013. The status and perspectives of CUORE will be discussed, and the ﬁrst CUORE-0 data will be presented.Keywords: Double beta decay, Neutrino mass, Bolometers1. IntroductionNeutrinos are massive particles. A beautiful proof ofthis important property was obtained by neutrino oscil-lation experiments more than a decade ago. Since then,the key role of neutrinoless double beta decay searcheshas been established, as attested by the growing numberof experimental proposals in the last years.Neutrinoless double beta decay ( 0 ) is a proposedvery rare nuclear process in which a nucleus transformsinto its (A,Z+2) isobar with the emission of two elec-trons. While the two neutrino channel ( 2 ) – wheretwo neutrinos are contemporary emitted in the decay – isallowed by the Standard Model of Particle Physics andhas been observed experimentally in a dozen of isotopeswith half-lives of the order 10
Published: 2016

29. CUORE-0 results and prospects for the CUORE experiment

Author: L. Carbone, C. Pagliarone, T. Wise, D. Q. Fang, N. Casali, A. Drobizhev, D. Orlandi, M. A. Franceschi, Massimiliano Clemenza, N. D. Scielzo, Carlo Cosmelli, M. I. Martínez, C. Bucci, B. X. Zhu, M. Faverzani, C. Maiano, T. D. Gutierrez, Davide Chiesa, R. J. Creswick, A. Dally, M. Maino, A. Woodcraft, F. Orio, L. Pattavina, K. E. Lim, Lorenzo Cassina, Claudio Gotti, G. Bari, H. W. Wang, L. Zanotti, Jeffrey W. Beeman, T. O'Donnell, T. I. Banks, C. Brofferio, M. M. Deninno, Oliviero Cremonesi, V. Palmieri, N. Chott, L. Taffarello, M. Pavan, B. S. Wang, M. Balata, Eric B. Norman, E. Previtali, A. Bersani, C. Rosenfeld, T. Napolitano, Lucia Canonica, V. Pettinacci, Guimin Zhang, James R. Wilson, O. Azzolini, P. Gorla, F. Bellini, F. Ferroni, N. Moggi, S. Di Domizio, Y. L. Li, C. Pira, L. Cardani, C. Tomei, A. Caminata, Emanuele Ferri, F. Terranova, Eugene E. Haller, Kevin Hickerson, H. Z. Huang, M. Tenconi, M. Biassoni, C. Nones, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, C. Zarra, A. Nucciotti, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, J. L. Ouellet, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, A. Camacho, Larissa M. Ejzak, L. Wielgus, Monica Sisti, Marisa Pedretti, M. Vignati, S. Zucchelli, Jeremy S. Cushman, S. Pirro, L. Gironi, Vladimir Datskov, F. T. Avignone, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Stuart J. Freedman, C. Rusconi, Massimiliano Nastasi, Yu-Gang Ma, A. Giuliani, Lindley Winslow, S. Trentalange, Elena Sala, Y. Mei, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, I. Dafinei, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, Marco Pallavicini, G. Pessina, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, Carlo Ligi, A. R. Smith, H. A. Farach, G. Fernandes, S. Morganti, G. Ventura, G. Piperno, Ettore Fiorini, Andrea Giachero, M. L. Di Vacri, S. Copello, Stefano Dell'Oro, X. Liu, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées (LAMA), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-Fédération de Recherche Bézout-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Cremonesi, O., Artusa, D. R., Avignone, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T. I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Creswick, R. J., Cushman, J. S., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Datskov, V., Dell’Oro, S., Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Ejzak, L., Fang, D. Q., Farach, H. A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M. A., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E., Han, K., Heeger, K. M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K. P., Huang, H. Z., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Li, Y. L., Ligi, C., Lim, K. E., Liu, X., Ma, Y. G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Nucciotti, A., O’Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Scielzo, N. D., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wang, B. S., Wang, H. W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L. A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhang, G. Q., Zhu, B. X., Zucchelli, S., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Kearns, E, Feldman, G, Cremonesi, O, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Ejzak, L, Fang, D, Farach, H, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings-Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, VALIDATION, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics and Astronomy (all), neutrino, CUORE, bolometer, Observatory, SIGNALS, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, DETECTORS, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], 010306 general physics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, BOLOMETERS, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), CUORICINO, MAJORANA, RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION, RARE EVENTS, Neutrino detector, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], inverted hierarchy, NEUTRON, Neutrino, Bolometer, Inverted hierarchy, Radioactive decay
Abstract: With 741 kg of TeO2 crystals and an excellent energy resolution of 5 keV (0.2%) at the region of interest, the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment aims at searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with unprecedented sensitivity. Expected to start data taking in 2015, CUORE is currently in an advanced construction phase at LNGS. CUORE projected neutrinoless double beta decay half-life sensitivity is 1.6E26 y at 1 sigma (9.5E25 y at the 90% confidence level), in five years of live time, corresponding to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass in the range 40-100 meV (50-130 meV). Further background rejection with auxiliary bolometric detectors could improve CUORE sensitivity and competitiveness of bolometric detectors towards a full analysis of the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy. CUORE-0 was built to test and demonstrate the performance of the upcoming CUORE experiment. It consists of a single CUORE tower (52 TeO2 bolometers of 750 g each, arranged in a 13 floor structure) constructed strictly following CUORE recipes both for materials and assembly procedures. An experiment its own, CUORE-0 is expected to reach a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double beta decay half-life of 130Te around 3E24 y in one year of live time. We present an update of the data, corresponding to an exposure of 18.1 kg y. An analysis of the background indicates that the CUORE performance goal is satisfied while the sensitivity goal is within reach., 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of NEUTRINO 2014, 26th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, 2-7 June 2014, held at Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Published: 2015
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30. First neutrinoless double beta decay results from CUORE-0

Author: A. Woodcraft, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, Ettore Fiorini, Andrea Giachero, F. Terranova, Davide Chiesa, K. E. Lim, K. Alfonso, M. L. Di Vacri, G. Bari, Jeffrey W. Beeman, C. Rusconi, Stefano Dell'Oro, G. Piperno, M. Maino, C. Brofferio, X. Liu, A. Dally, D. Santone, H. W. Wang, N. Casali, T. O'Donnell, N. D. Scielzo, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, Stuart J. Freedman, V. Pettinacci, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, A. Bersani, L. Taffarello, L. Cardani, T. I. Banks, Oliviero Cremonesi, Guimin Zhang, M. Balata, E. V. Hansen, L. Wielgus, C. Pira, M. M. Deninno, J. L. Ouellet, S. Zucchelli, S. Copello, N. Moggi, G. Fernandes, F. Orio, Paolo Carniti, Lucia Canonica, S. Pirro, F. Bellini, B. X. Zhu, R. Hennings-Yeomans, H. Z. Huang, M. Tenconi, Lindley Winslow, Kevin Hickerson, Samuele Sangiorgio, Stefano Nisi, A. Nucciotti, L. Zanotti, C. J. Davis, S. Morganti, B. S. Wang, C. Bucci, C. Alduino, M. Faverzani, T. D. Gutierrez, Miriam Lucio Martinez, S. L. Wagaarachchi, C. Nones, R. J. Creswick, O. Azzolini, S. Di Domizio, C. Zarra, D. Q. Fang, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, B. K. Fujikawa, L. Gironi, V. Palmieri, Stefano Pozzi, F. T. Avignone, Lorenzo Cassina, Eric B. Norman, Marco Pallavicini, M. Vignati, T. Napolitano, N. Chott, G. Pessina, Claudio Gotti, M. Biassoni, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, M. Pavan, I. Dafinei, Elena Sala, Y. Mei, A. Drobizhev, D. Orlandi, M. A. Franceschi, S. Zimmermann, Xi-Guang Cao, K. M. Heeger, Carlo Ligi, A. R. Smith, G. Ventura, Jeremy S. Cushman, Yu-Gang Ma, C. Rosenfeld, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, A. Camacho, L. Carbone, C. Pagliarone, T. Wise, A. Giuliani, S. Trentalange, L. Pattavina, James R. Wilson, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Monica Sisti, CSNSM PS1, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Gironi, L., Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Artusa, D. R., Avignone, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T. I., Bari, G., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X. G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cushman, J. S., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Davis, C. J., Dell’Oro, S., Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Fang, D. Q., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M. A., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Giachero, A., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E., Han, K., Hansen, E., Heeger, K. M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K. P., Huang, H. Z., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Ligi, C., Lim, K. E., Liu, X., Ma, Y. G., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Nucciotti, A., O’Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J. L., Pagliarone, C. E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Santone, D., Scielzo, N. D., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, B. S., Wang, H. W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L. A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhang, G. Q., Zhu, B. X., Zimmermann, S., Zucchelli, S., Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Civitarese, O, Stekl, I, Suhonen, J, Gironi, L, Alduino, C, Alfonso, K, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Davis, C, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Fang, D, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Giachero, A, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Santone, D, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, Zimmermann, S, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: neutrinoless | bolometer | Gran Sasso | energy resolution | sensitivity | background | CUORE Author supplied: Bolometers | Double beta decay | Isotopes | Laboratory procedures, Physics and Astronomy (all), CUORE, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, LABORATORI nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics, Bolometers, Double Beta Decay, Isotopes, Laboratory procedures, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Neutrinoless double beta decay, TeO2, bolometers, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, BOLOMETERS, Bolometer, Background level, Massless particle, NEUTRINOLESS double beta decay, ISOTOPES, Neutrino, Radioactive decay, Lepton, SENSITIVITY analysis
Abstract: International audience; The CUORE-0 experiment, a 52 bolometer array searching for neutrinoless double beta decay from 130Te, has started taking data in spring 2013 underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The excellent results obtained in terms of energy resolution and background level allowed this experiment to reach the sensitivity of Cuoricino in approximately half the runtime. Combining CUORE-0 data (9.8 kg·yr exposure of 130Te) with the 19.75 kg·yr exposure of the Cuoricino experiment, we obtain the most stringent limit to date on the half-life of this isotope (T1/2 > 4.0 × 1024 yr). In this article, we review the results from CUORE-0 and discuss the status and the physics potential of CUORE, a 19 times larger bolometer array that plans to begin operations by end of this year.
Published: 2015
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31. The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at Gran Sasso

Author: Jeremy S. Cushman, S. Copello, G. Piperno, H. Z. Huang, Davide Chiesa, K. E. Lim, A. Caminata, R. W. Kadel, L. Taffarello, Ettore Fiorini, S. Zucchelli, Andrea Giachero, B. X. Zhu, A. Woodcraft, Oliviero Cremonesi, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, W. D. Tian, A. Bersani, G. Ventura, B. S. Wang, Ezio Previtali, Jonathan Ouellet, M. L. Di Vacri, G. Bari, S. Morganti, H. A. Farach, N. Moggi, Deqing Fang, S. Dell'Oro, X. Z. Cai, A. Giuliani, G. Fernandes, S. Di Domizio, C. Brofferio, Samuele Sangiorgio, Xiangyu Cao, T. D. Gutierrez, F. Terranova, X. Liu, Carlo Ligi, T. I. Banks, A. Nucciotti, C. Zarra, L. Pattavina, V. Rampazzo, Marco Pallavicini, M. I. Martínez, M. Tenconi, Yan Li, Yu G. Kolomensky, M. Balata, Francesca Bellini, A. Drobizhev, L. Cappelli, B. K. Fujikawa, G. Pessina, M. Biassoni, Elena Sala, Stefano Pozzi, S. Trentalange, T. Napolitano, D. Orlandi, Y. Mei, R. Hennings-Yeomans, C. Rosenfeld, Marisa Pedretti, Nicholas Scielzo, M. A. Franceschi, M. Vignati, K. M. Heeger, N. Casali, Guoqiang Zhang, M. Pavan, K. Kazkaz, Alejandro E. Camacho, Hongwei Wang, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, Stuart J. Freedman, C. Pira, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, Larissa M. Ejzak, Claudio Gotti, Vladimir Datskov, I. Dafinei, L. Cassina, Yu-Gang Ma, L. Canonica, Kevin Hickerson, N. Chott, C. Bucci, M. M. Deninno, L. Carbone, C. Pagliarone, T. Wise, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, F. Orio, S. Nisi, James R. Wilson, Alan R. Smith, G. Keppel, D. R. Artusa, Monica Sisti, J. W. Beeman, C. Rusconi, M. Faverzani, V. Pettinacci, A. Dally, L. Cardani, Stefano Pirro, Eric B. Norman, Lindley Winslow, Claudia Tomei, O. Azzolini, L. Wielgus, C. Nones, R. J. Creswick, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, L. Zanotti, M. Maino, T. O'Donnell, C. Maiano, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CSNSM PS1, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DAM Île-de-France (DAM/DIF), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Giachero, A., Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T.I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X.Z., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Canonica, L., Cao, X.G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Cushman, J.S., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Datskov, V., Dell'Oro, S., Deninno, M.M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M.L., Drobizhev, A., Ejzak, L., Fang, D.Q., Farach, H.A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M.A., Freedman, S.J., Fujikawa, B.K., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Han, K., Heeger, K.M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K.P., Huang, H.Z., Kadel, R., Kazkaz, K., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu.G., Li, Y.L., Ligi, C., Lim, K.E., Liu, X., Ma, Y.G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R.H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J.L., Pagliarone, C.E., Pallavicini, M., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rampazzo, V., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sala, E., Sangiorgio, S., Scielzo, N.D., Sisti, M., Smith, A.R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, F., Tian, W.D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Vignati, M., Wang, B.S., Wang, H.W., Wielgus, L., Wilson, J., Winslow, L.A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhang, G.Q., Zhu, B.X., Zucchelli, S., Bravina, L., Giachero, A, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Balata, M, Banks, T, Bari, G, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Bersani, A, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cai, X, Camacho, A, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cao, X, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Carbone, L, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Chiesa, D, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Cosmelli, C, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cushman, J, Dafinei, I, Dally, A, Datskov, V, Dell'Oro, S, Deninno, M, Di Domizio, S, Di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Ejzak, L, Fang, D, Farach, H, Faverzani, M, Fernandes, G, Ferri, E, Ferroni, F, Fiorini, E, Franceschi, M, Freedman, S, Fujikawa, B, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gutierrez, T, Haller, E, Han, K, Heeger, K, Hennings Yeomans, R, Hickerson, K, Huang, H, Kadel, R, Kazkaz, K, Keppel, G, Kolomensky, Y, Li, Y, Ligi, C, Lim, K, Liu, X, Ma, Y, Maiano, C, Maino, M, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mei, Y, Moggi, N, Morganti, S, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Nucciotti, A, O'Donnell, T, Orio, F, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pedretti, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Piperno, G, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Rampazzo, V, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sala, E, Sangiorgio, S, Scielzo, N, Sisti, M, Smith, A, Taffarello, L, Tenconi, M, Terranova, F, Tian, W, Tomei, C, Trentalange, S, Ventura, G, Vignati, M, Wang, B, Wang, H, Wielgus, L, Wilson, J, Winslow, L, Wise, T, Woodcraft, A, Zanotti, L, Zarra, C, Zhang, G, Zhu, B, and Zucchelli, S
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, Bolometer, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), VALIDATION, law.invention, Nuclear physics, CONTAMINATION, Physics and Astronomy (all), CUORE, activity report | double-beta decay: (0neutrino) | CUORE | bolometer | sensitivity | performance | tellurium: nuclide | experimental results, Observatory, law, Double beta decay, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], DOUBLE-BETA DECAY, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], physics.ins-det, K OUTER CRYOSTAT, Bolometers, neutrinoless double beta decay
Abstract: The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in $^{130}$Te and other rare processes. CUORE is a cryogenic detector composed of 988 TeO$_2$ bolometers for a total mass of about 741 kg. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV$\cdot$kg$\cdot$y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity around $1\times 10^{26}$ y at 90\% C.L. As a first step towards CUORE a smaller experiment CUORE-0, constructed to test and demonstrate the performances expected for CUORE, has been assembled and is running. The detector is a single tower of 52 CUORE-like bolometers that started taking data in spring 2013. The status and perspectives of CUORE will be discussed, and the first CUORE-0 data will be presented., Comment: Proceedings of a talk given at the International Conference of New Frontiers in Physics, ICNFP 2014; submitted at EPJ Web of Conferences
Published: 2015
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32. Background identification in cryogenic calorimeters through $$\alpha -\alpha $$ delayed coincidences

Author: Paolo Carniti, M. Biassoni, Massimiliano Nastasi, Stefano Nisi, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, A. Giuliani, Massimiliano Clemenza, M. Beretta, L. Pattavina, G. Keppel, C. Brofferio, Simone Capelli, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, C. Rusconi, Davide Chiesa, L. Pagnanini, Stefano Pozzi, M. Pavan, Jeffrey W. Beeman, C. Nones, A. Puiu, M. Vignati, K. Schäffner, A. D'Addabbo, A. S. Zolotarova, I. Dafinei, V. Pettinacci, S. Pirro, D. Orlandi, O. Azzolini, Marco Pallavicini, G. Pessina, F. Bellini, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, L. Gironi, S.S. Nagorny, Claudio Gotti, Oliviero Cremonesi, N. Casali, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, D'Addabbo, A, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, background identification, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC770-798, Delayed coincidence, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, neutrinoless double beta decay, QB460-466, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, radioactivity, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Double beta decay, low background, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Decay chain, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-DATA-AN]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability [physics.data-an]
Abstract: Localization and modeling of radioactive contaminations is a challenge that ultra-low background experiments are constantly facing. These are fundamental steps both to extract scientific results and to further reduce the background of the detectors. Here we present an innovative technique based on the analysis of $$\alpha -\alpha $$ α - α delayed coincidences in $${}^{232}$$ 232 Th and $${}^{238}$$ 238 U decay chains, developed to investigate the contaminations of the ZnSe crystals in the CUPID-0 experiment. This method allows to disentangle surface and bulk contaminations of the detectors relying on the different probability to tag delayed coincidences as function of the $$\alpha $$ α decay position.
Published: 2021
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33. Measurement of $^{216}$Po half-life with the CUPID-0 experiment

Author: S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, A. Giuliani, Davide Chiesa, M. Vignati, Jeffrey W. Beeman, L. Pattavina, Massimiliano Clemenza, Simone Capelli, M. Pavan, A. D'Addabbo, M. Beretta, C. Brofferio, C. Rusconi, K. Schäffner, D. Orlandi, G. Keppel, V. Caracciolo, Stefano Nisi, F. Bellini, Paolo Carniti, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, V. Pettinacci, Massimiliano Nastasi, I. Colantoni, L. Pagnanini, S. S. Nagorny, Marco Pallavicini, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, C. Nones, A. Puiu, O. Azzolini, Angelo Cruciani, I. Dafinei, Ezio Previtali, Oliviero Cremonesi, Claudio Gotti, N. Casali, M. Biassoni, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, L. Gironi, A. S. Zolotarova, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Caracciolo, V, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, D'Addabbo, A, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Coincidence, Cryogenic calorimeters, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Sequence, Basis (linear algebra), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Event (computing), Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Delayed coincidence, Half-life measurement, Cryogenic calorimeter, Algorithm
Abstract: Rare event physics demands very detailed background control, high-performance detectors, and custom analysis strategies. Cryogenic calorimeters combine all these ingredients very effectively, representing a promising tool for next-generation experiments. CUPID-0 is one of the most advanced examples of such a technique, having demonstrated its potential with several results obtained with limited exposure. In this paper, we present a further application. Exploiting the analysis of delayed coincidence, we can identify the signals caused by the $^{220}$Rn-$^{216}$Po decay sequence on an event-by-event basis. The analysis of these events allows us to extract the time differences between the two decays, leading to a new evaluation of $^{216}$ half-life, estimated as (143.3 $\pm$ 2.8) ms., 5 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2021
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34. Search for double $$\beta $$-decay modes of $$^{64}$$Zn using purified zinc

Author: S. Di Domizio, G. Pessina, Yu.V. Gorbenko, M. Beretta, Ezio Previtali, M. Vignati, L. Gironi, S. Nisi, V.D. Virich, Claudio Gotti, Francesca Bellini, S.S. Nagorny, Davide Chiesa, Claudia Tomei, L. Pattavina, M. Clemenza, L. Cardani, Stefano Pirro, Matthias Laubenstein, L. Pagnanini, K. Schäffner, C. Rusconi, Ioan Dafinei, E. Celi, N. Casali, D. A. Solopikhin, Paolo Carniti, G.P. Kovtun, F. Ferroni, A. P. Shcherban, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Celi, E, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Gorbenko, Y, Gotti, C, Kovtun, G, Laubenstein, M, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Pagnanini, L, Pattavina, L, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Shcherban, A, Solopikhin, D, Virich, V, Tomei, C, and Vignati, M
Subjects: Physics, Radionuclide, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, double beta decay, radioactivity, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron capture, Analytical chemistry, double beta decay, chemistry.chemical_element, Zinc, 01 natural sciences, Semiconductor detector, chemistry, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Production (computer science), Nuclide, Positron emission, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract: The production of ultra-pure raw material is a crucial step to ensure the required background level in rare event searches. In this work, we establish an innovative technique developed to produce high-purity (99.999%) granular zinc. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the refining procedure by measuring the internal contaminations of the purified zinc with a high-purity germanium detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The total activity of cosmogenic activated nuclides is measured at the level of a few mBq/kg, as well as limits on naturally occurring radionuclides are set to less than mBq/kg. The excellent radiopurity of the zinc sample allows us to search for electron capture with positron emission and neutrinoless double electron capture of $$^{64}$$ 64 Zn, setting the currently most stringent lower limits on their half-lives, $$T_{1/2}^{\varepsilon \beta ^+} > 2.7\times 10^{21}~\text {year}$$ T 1 / 2 ε β + > 2.7 × 10 21 year (90% CI), and $$T_{1/2}^{0\nu 2\varepsilon }> 2.6\times 10^{21}~\text {year}$$ T 1 / 2 0 ν 2 ε > 2.6 × 10 21 year (90% CI), respectively.
Published: 2021
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35. Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{64}$$Zn and $$^{70}$$Zn with CUPID-0

Author: P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Massimiliano Clemenza, L. Pattavina, L. Pagnanini, M. Beretta, S. Di Domizio, K. Schäffner, Claudio Gotti, Stefano Nisi, Paolo Carniti, Laura Cardani, Oliviero Cremonesi, Massimiliano Nastasi, Stefano Pozzi, C. Brofferio, A. S. Zolotarova, S. Pirro, M. Vignati, C. Rusconi, A. D'Addabbo, N. Casali, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, Simone Capelli, G. Keppel, Davide Chiesa, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Marco Pallavicini, D. Orlandi, G. Pessina, E. Celi, A. Giuliani, C. Nones, A. Puiu, V. Pettinacci, M. Pavan, I. Dafinei, O. Azzolini, L. Gironi, F. Bellini, M. Biassoni, S.S. Nagorny, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Celi, E, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: neutrinoless double beta decay, scintillating bolometers, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Electron capture, FOS: Physical sciences, electron: capture, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, isotope enrichment, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Beta (velocity), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), scintilla- tion detector, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Gran Sasso, zinc: selenium, calorimeter: cryogenics, cryogenic calorimeter, scintillation counter: crystal, selenium: nuclide, bolometers, experimental results
Abstract: CUPID-0 is the first pilot experiment of CUPID, a next-generation project searching for neutrinoless double beta decay. In its first scientific run, CUPID-0 operated 26 ZnSe cryogenic calorimeters coupled to light detectors in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. In this work, we analyzed a ZnSe exposure of 11.34 kg year to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{70}$$70Zn and for the neutrinoless positron-emitting electron capture of $$^{64}$$64Zn. We found no evidence for these decays and set 90$$\%$$% credible interval limits of $$\hbox {T}_{1/2}^{0\nu \beta \beta }$$T1/20νββ($$^{70}$$70Zn) > 1.6 $$10^{21}$$1021 year and $$\hbox {T}_{1/2}^{0\nu EC \beta +}$$T1/20νECβ+($$^{64}$$64Zn) > 1.2$$\times 10^{22}$$×1022 year, surpassing by more than one order of magnitude the previous experimental results (Belli et al. in J Phys G 38(11):115107, https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/38/11/115107, 2011).
Published: 2020
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36. Double beta decay results from the CUPID-0 experiment

Author: Davide Chiesa, C. Nones, S. Nagorny, A. D'Addabbo, C. Bucci, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, L. Pagnanini, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, J. W. Beeman, N. Casali, M. I. Martínez, M. Biassoni, S. Di Domizio, M. Beretta, Francesca Bellini, K. Schäffner, Stefano Pozzi, Marco Pallavicini, C. Brofferio, G. Pessina, M. Vignati, A. S. Zolotarova, S. Nisi, Ioan Dafinei, L. Gironi, A. Puiu, A. Cruciani, Claudio Gotti, V. Pettinacci, O. Azzolini, L. Pattavina, L. Cardani, Oliviero Cremonesi, Stefano Pirro, D. Orlandi, E. Celi, M. Pavan, C. Rusconi, Giorgio Keppel, Claudia Tomei, Ezio Previtali, Paolo Carniti, M. Clemenza, A. Giuliani, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Chiesa, D, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Celi, E, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Physics, Detector, Phase (waves), background: model, double beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, electron: spectrum, nucleus: transition, Double beta decay, calorimeter: cryogenics, detector: energy resolution, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), scintillation counter: crystal, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), energy resolution: high, Nuclear Experiment, Counting rate, experimental results
Abstract: A convincing observation of neutrino-less double beta decay (0$\nu$DBD) relies on the possibility of operating high energy-resolution detectors in background-free conditions. Scintillating cryogenic calorimeters are one of the most promising tools to fulfill the requirements for a next-generation experiment. Several steps have been taken to demonstrate the maturity of this technique, starting from the successful experience of CUPID-0. The CUPID-0 experiment demonstrated the complete rejection of the dominant alpha background measuring the lowest counting rate in the region of interest for this technique. Furthermore, the most stringent limit on the $^{82}$Se 0$\nu$DBD was established running 26 ZnSe crystals during two years of continuous detector operation. In this contribution we present the final results of CUPID-0 Phase I including a detailed model of the background, the measurement of the $^{82}$Se 2$\nu$DBD half-life and the evidence that this nuclear transition is single state dominated., Comment: 40th International Conference on High Energy physics - ICHEP2020 July 28 - August 6, 2020 Prague, Czech Republic (virtual meeting)
Published: 2020
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37. Production and characterisation of a PbMoO4 cryogenic detector from archaeological Pb

Author: K. Schäffner, V. N. Shlegel, L. Pattavina, V. N. Zhdankov, L. Pagnanini, Stefano Nisi, S.S. Nagorny, C. Rusconi, S. Pirro, G. Pessina, Pattavina, L, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Pagnanini, L, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Shlegel, V, and Zhdankov, V
Subjects: Physics, Crystal, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Full width at half maximum, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Double beta decay, Detector, Crystal growth, Neutrino, Archaeology, Energy (signal processing), Particle identification
Abstract: We operated a $$\hbox {PbMoO}_4$$ scintillating cryogenic detector of 570 g, produced with archaeological lead. This compound features excellent low temperature characteristics in terms of light yield, 12 keV/MeV for $$\beta /\gamma $$ interactions, and FWHM energy resolution, 11.7 keV at 2.6 MeV. Furthermore, the detector allows for an effective particle identification by means of pulse shape analysis on the heat read-out channel. The implementation of innovative techniques and procedures for the purification of raw materials used for the crystal growth, and the highly-pure archaeological Pb, allowed for the production of large volume high-quality crystal. The overall characteristics of the detector operated at cryogenic temperatures makes $$\hbox {PbMoO}_4$$ an excellent compound for neutrino physics applications, especially neutrinoless double-beta studies.
Published: 2020

38. Probing the absolute neutrino mass scale with the 163Ho: The HOLMES project

Author: D. A. Bennett, R Dressier, A. Puiu, M. Faverzani, Dorothea Schumann, Joseph W. Fowler, Stefano Nisi, G. Gallucci, John A. B. Mates, Dan Becker, S. Heinitz, Leila R. Vale, V. Ceriale, Joel N. Ullom, G. Pessina, Daniel S. Swetz, Daniel Schmidt, M. Lusignoli, Carl D. Reintsema, S. Ragazzi, Gene C. Hilton, Emanuele Ferri, Bradley K. Alpert, U. Koester, Johnathon D. Gard, M. De Gerone, M. Ribeiro-Gomes, A. Orlando, Michele Biasotti, James P. Hays-Wehle, Flavio Gatti, A. Giachero, Gerone, M, Alpert, B, Becker, D, Bennett, D, Biasotti, M, Ceriale, V, Dressier, R, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Fowler, J, Gallucci, G, Gard, J, Gatti, F, Giachero, A, Hays-Wehle, J, Heinitz, S, Hilton, G, Koester, U, Lusignoli, M, Mates, J, Nisi, S, Orlando, A, Pessina, G, Puiu, A, Ragazzi, S, Reintsema, C, Ribeiro-Gomes, M, Schmidt, D, Schumann, D, Swetz, D, Ullom, J, and Vale, L
Subjects: Physics, History, Electron capture, Detector, Computer Science Applications, Education, Computational physics, law.invention, SQUID, Data acquisition, Neutrino mass, law, Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino, Transition edge sensor, Electron neutrino
Abstract: The HOLMES project aims to directly measure the electron neutrino mass using the electron capture decay (EC) of 163Ho down to the eV scale. It will perform a precise measurement of the end-point of the 163Ho calorimetric energy spectrum to search for the deformation caused by a finite electron neutrino mass. The choice of 163Ho as source is driven by the very low Q-value of the EC reaction (around 2.8 keV), which allows for a high sensitivity while keeping the overall activities to reasonable value (O(102)Hz/detector), thus reducing the pile-up probability. A large array made of thousands of Transition Edge Sensor based micro-calorimeters will be used for a calorimetric measurement of the EC 163Ho spectrum. The calorimetric approach, with the source embedded inside the detector, eliminates systematic uncertainties arising from the use of an external beta-source, and minimizes the effect of the atomic de-excitation process uncertainties. The commissioning of the first implanted sub-array is scheduled for the end of 2017. It will provide useful data about the EC decay of 163Ho together with a first limit on neutrino mass. In this paper the current status of the main tasks will be summarized: the TES array design and engineering, the isotope preparation and embedding, and the development of a high speed multiplexed SQUID read-out system for the data acquisition.
Published: 2020

39. Final results of the CUPID-0 Phase i experiment

Author: G. Keppel, C. Nones, N. Casali, A. Puiu, S. Pozzi, Massimiliano Clemenza, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Angelo Cruciani, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. S. Nagorny, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, D. Orlandi, Marco Pallavicini, L. Pagnanini, C. Brofferio, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Pessina, A. Giuliani, L. Gironi, C. Gotti, I. Dafinei, Stefano Nisi, Paolo Carniti, M. Pavan, Davide Chiesa, S. Pirro, L. Pattavina, F. Bellini, Jeffrey W. Beeman, O. Azzolini, S. Di Domizio, Laura Cardani, M. Vignati, K. Schäffner, C. Rusconi, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, V. Pettinacci, M. Beretta, E. Previtali, M. Biassoni, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Casali, N, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Physics, History, Detector, Phase (waves), talk: Toyama 2019/09/09, background: model, 01 natural sciences, Double beta decay, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Computer Science Applications, Education, crystal, Gran Sasso, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter: cryogenics, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], detector: resolution, 010306 general physics, Counting rate, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; A convincing observation of neutrino-less double beta decay (0vDBD) relies on the possibility of operating high-energy resolution detectors in background-free conditions. Scintillating cryogenic calorimeters are one of the most promising tools to fulfill the requirements for a next-generation experiment. Several steps have been taken to demonstrate the maturity of this technique, starting form the successful experience of CUPID-0. The CUPID-0 experiment collected almost 10 kg y of exposure, running 26 Zn82Se crystals during two years of continuous detector operation. The complete rejection of the dominant α background was demonstrated, measuring the lowest counting rate in the region of interest for this technique. Furthermore, the most stringent limit on the 82Se 0vDBD was established. In this contribution we present the final results of CUPID-0 phase-I, including a detailed model of the background and the measurement of the 2vDBD half-life.
Published: 2020
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40. Status of the HOLMES Experiment

Author: Joseph W. Fowler, M. Faverzani, M. Ribeiro-Gomez, Dorothea Schumann, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel Schmidt, G. Gallucci, Evelyn Ferri, Ulli Köster, S. Ragazzi, F. Siccardi, A. Bevilaqua, Joel N. Ullom, M. Borghesi, L. Parodi, Stefano Nisi, M. Balata, A. Nucciotti, A. Puiu, John A. B. Mates, G. Ceruti, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, D. Bennet, D. Backer, Michele Biasotti, Bradley K. Alpert, M. De Gerone, Gene C. Hilton, Leila R. Vale, G. Pessina, Daniel S. Swetz, S. Heinitz, M. Lusignoli, Flavio Gatti, Andrea Giachero, Johnathon D. Gard, Rugard Dressler, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), ILL, Faverzani, M, Alpert, B, Balata, M, Backer, D, Bennet, D, Bevilaqua, A, Biasotti, M, Borghesi, M, Ceruti, G, De Gerone, M, Dressler, R, Ferri, E, Fowler, J, Gallucci, G, Gard, J, Gatti, F, Giachero, A, Heinitz, S, Hilton, G, Köster, U, Lusignoli, M, Mates, J, Maugeri, E, Nisi, S, Nucciotti, A, Parodi, L, Pessina, G, Puiu, A, Ragazzi, S, Reintsema, C, Ribeiro-Gomez, M, Schmidt, D, Schumann, D, Siccardi, F, Swetz, D, Ullom, J, and Vale, L
Subjects: Photon, experimental methods, Electron capture, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, electron: capture, Electron, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, HOLMES, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Nuclear physics, Neutrino mass, 0103 physical sciences, Atom, calorimeter, General Materials Science, Sensitivity (control systems), holmium: nuclide, neutrino: mass, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Transition edge sensors, detector: design, activity report, Physics, Isotope, Condensed Matter Physics, sensitivity, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, pile-up, Excited state, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino ma, Transition edge sensor
Abstract: International audience; The absolute neutrino mass is still an unknown parameter in the modern landscape of particle physics. The HOLMES experiment aims at exploiting the calorimetric approach to directly measure the neutrino mass through the kinematic measurement of the decay products of the weak process decay of $^{163}$Ho. This low energy decaying isotope, in fact, undergoes electron capture emitting a neutrino and leaving the daughter atom, $^{163}$Dy$^*$, in an atomic excited state. This, in turn, relaxes by emitting electrons and, to a considerably lesser extent, photons. The high-energy portion of the calorimetric spectrum of this decay is affected by the non-vanishing neutrino mass value. Given the small fraction of events falling within the region of interest, to achieve a high experimental sensitivity on the neutrino mass, it is important to have a high activity combined with a very small undetected pileup contribution. To achieve these targets, the final configuration of HOLMES foresees the deployment of a large number of $^{163}$Ho ion-implanted TESs characterized by an ambitiously high activity of 300 Hz each. In this paper, we outline the status of the major tasks that will bring HOLMES to achieve a statistical sensitivity on the neutrino mass as low as 2 eV/c$^2$.
Published: 2019
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41. Background model of the CUPID-0 experiment

Author: C. Nones, Davide Chiesa, M. Biassoni, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, M. Clemenza, A. Cruciani, Claudio Gotti, L. Pattavina, A. Giuliani, L. Pagnanini, A. S. Zolotarova, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. Di Domizio, C. Bucci, O. Azzolini, Paolo Carniti, F. Bellini, C. Brofferio, Claudia Tomei, Ioan Dafinei, A. Puiu, Stefano Pozzi, M. Pavan, L. Gironi, C. Rusconi, N. Casali, S.S. Nagorny, M. Vignati, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, K. Schäffner, M. I. Martínez, Marco Pallavicini, V. Pettinacci, G. Pessina, L. Cardani, S. Nisi, Stefano Pirro, G. Keppel, J. W. Beeman, D. Orlandi, M. Beretta, Ezio Previtali, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CUPID, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, experimental methods, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Bolometer, background: model, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, lcsh:Astrophysics, helium, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Rare Event, neutrino less double beta decay, 01 natural sciences, thermal, law.invention, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), temperature: low, law, Double beta decay, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutrinos, Double Beta Decay, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), scintillation counter, Helium, Physics, Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Background model, Gran Sasso, Calorimeter, chemistry, Scintillation counter, lcsh:QC770-798, bolometers, Neutrino, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: CUPID-0 is the first large mass array of enriched Zn$^{82}$Se scintillating low temperature calorimeters, operated at LNGS since 2017. During its first scientific runs, CUPID-0 collected an exposure of 9.95 kg yr. Thanks to the excellent rejection of $\alpha$ particles, we attained the lowest background ever measured with thermal detectors in the energy region where we search for the signature of $^{82}$Se neutrinoless double beta decay. In this work we develop a model to reconstruct the CUPID-0 background over the whole energy range of experimental data. We identify the background sources exploiting their distinctive signatures and we assess their extremely low contribution (down to $\sim10^{-4}$ counts/(keV kg yr)) in the region of interest for $^{82}$Se neutrinoless double beta decay search. This result represents a crucial step towards the comprehension of the background in experiments based on scintillating calorimeters and in next generation projects such as CUPID., Comment: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Eur. Phys. J. C. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7078-8
Published: 2019
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42. The CUORE cryostat: An infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures

Author: L. Gladstone, F. Alessandria, C. Bucci, L. Canonica, L. Marini, A. Rotilio, B. Romualdi, M. Guetti, R. Gaigher, T. Napolitano, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. L. Di Vacri, Stefano Nisi, L. Di Paolo, A. D'Addabbo, N. Chott, M. Biassoni, A. Nucciotti, S. Copello, S. L. Wagaarachchi, C. Alduino, Carlo Ligi, Massimiliano Clemenza, D. Biare, Vasundhara Singh, E. Tatananni, A. Pelosi, A. Corsi, M. Perego, Stefano Dell'Oro, Jonathan Ouellet, L. Cappelli, Monica Sisti, L. Ioannucci, M. Balata, C. Rusconi, P. Gorla, F. Terranova, J. Wallig, Emanuele Ferri, D. Santone, G. Ceruti, L. Pattavina, C. Pagliarone, Yu. G. Kolomensky, A. Chiarini, T. O'Donnell, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, M. Faverzani, C. Zarra, L. Taffarello, A. Drobizhev, D. Orlandi, M. A. Franceschi, Irene Nutini, Alduino, C, Alessandria, F, Balata, M, Biare, D, Biassoni, M, Bucci, C, Caminata, A, Canonica, L, Cappelli, L, Ceruti, G, Chiarini, A, Chott, N, Clemenza, M, Copello, S, Corsi, A, Cremonesi, O, D'Addabbo, A, Dell'Oro, S, Di Paolo, L, Di Vacri, M, Drobizhev, A, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Franceschi, M, Gaigher, R, Gladstone, L, Gorla, P, Guetti, M, Ioannucci, L, Kolomensky, Y, Ligi, C, Marini, L, Napolitano, T, Nisi, S, Nucciotti, A, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Orlandi, D, Ouellet, J, Pagliarone, C, Pattavina, L, Pelosi, A, Perego, M, Previtali, E, Romualdi, B, Rotilio, A, Rusconi, C, Santone, D, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Taffarello, L, Tatananni, E, Terranova, F, Wagaarachchi, S, Wallig, J, and Zarra, C
Subjects: Cryostat, General Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, neutrino, cryogenics, Classical Physics, Nuclear engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Cryogenics, nucl-ex, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, CUORE, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Nuclear Experiment, 010302 applied physics, Physics, Detector, Bolometer, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Interdisciplinary Engineering, Neutrino, Event (particle physics)
Abstract: The CUORE experiment is the world’s largest bolometric experiment. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals, for a total mass of 742 kg. CUORE is presently taking data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. A large custom cryogen-free cryostat allows reaching and maintaining a base temperature of ∼ 10 mK, required for the optimal operation of the detector. This apparatus has been designed in order to achieve a low noise environment, with minimal contribution to the radioactive background for the experiment. In this paper, we present an overview of the CUORE cryostat, together with a description of all its sub-systems, focusing on the solutions identified to satisfy the stringent requirements. We briefly illustrate the various phases of the cryostat commissioning and highlight the relevant steps and milestones achieved each time. Finally, we describe the successful cooldown of CUORE.
Published: 2019

43. Result on the neutrinoless double beta decay search of 82 Se with the CUPID-0 experiment

Author: A. S. Zolotarova, Paolo Carniti, Stefano Nisi, A. Puiu, Oliverio Cremonesi, Angelo Cruciani, M. Clemenza, L. Pattavina, Ezio Previtali, Marco Pallavicini, M. Beretta, Sergio Di Domizio, A. D'Addabbo, L. Pagnanini, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, L. Gironi, N. Casali, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, Karoline Schäffner, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, V. Palmieri, C. Bucci, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Claudia Nones, Lorenzo Cassina, Claudio Gotti, Maria Teresa Barrera, Silvio Morganti, M. Vignati, V. Pettinacci, Stefano Pirro, A. Giuliani, Sergei Nagorny, M. Biassoni, Lucia Canonica, F. Bellini, C. Rusconi, C. Brofferio, M. I. Martínez, Ioan Dafinei, Claudia Tomei, O. Azzolini, G. Keppel, D. Orlandi, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Bellini, F, Azzolini, O, Teresa Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D’Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Semileptonic decay, lcsh:QC793-793.5, Large array, General Physics and Astronomy, Majorana neutrino, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Zn82Se scintillating cryogenic calorimeters, Zn82Se scintillating cryogenic calorimeter, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, law.invention, scintillation counter: cryogenics, Nuclear physics, mass: scale, background: low, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Mass scale, neutrino: mass, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, particle: energy, Bolometer, lcsh:Elementary particle physics, semileptonic decay, Gran Sasso, calorimeter: cryogenics, neutrino: Majorana, particle identification, α particles, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE
Abstract: CUPID-0 is the first large array of scintillating Zn 82 Se cryogenic calorimeters (bolometers) implementing particle identification for the search of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0 ν β β ). The detector consists of 24 enriched Zn 82 Se bolometers for a total 82 Se mass of 5.28 kg and it has been taking data in the underground LNGS (Italy) since March 2017. In this article we show how the dual read-out provides a powerful tool for the α particles rejection. The simultaneous use of the heat and light information allows us to reduce the background down to (3.2 − 1.1 + 1.3 )×10 − 3 counts/(keV kg year), an unprecedented level for cryogenic calorimeters. In a total exposure of 5.46 kg year Zn 82 Se we set the most stringent limit on the 0 ν β β decay 82 Se half-life T 1 / 2 0 ν > 4.0 × 10 24 year at 90% C.I.
Published: 2019
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44. Probing the absolute neutrino mass scale with 163Ho: The HOLMES project

Author: Dan Becker, M. Ribeiro Gomes, Daniel Schmidt, M. Faverzani, Michele Biasotti, Joseph W. Fowler, G. Gallucci, Angelo Orlando, James P. Hays-Wehle, S. Nisi, Rugard Dressler, Carl D. Reintsema, Joel N. Ullom, A. Nucciotti, John A. B. Mates, Andrea Giachero, D. A. Bennett, Emanuele Ferri, Leila R. Vale, V. Ceriale, Daniel S. Swetz, M. Lusignoli, Flavio Gatti, Bradley K. Alpert, G. Pessina, U. Koester, S. Heinitz, A. Puiu, Dorothea Schumann, Gene C. Hilton, S. Ragazzi, Johnathon D. Gard, M. De Gerone, De Gerone, M, Alpert, B, Becker, D, Bennett, D, Biasotti, M, Ceriale, V, Dressler, R, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Fowler, J, Gallucci, G, Gard, J, Gatti, F, Giachero, A, Hays-Wehle, J, Heinitz, S, Hilton, G, Koester, U, Lusignoli, M, Mates, J, Nucciotti, A, Nisi, S, Orlando, A, Pessina, G, Puiu, A, Ragazzi, S, Reintsema, C, Ribeiro Gomes, M, Schmidt, D, Schumann, D, Swetz, D, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and ILL
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Scale (ratio), Electron capture, Instrumentation, electron: capture, 02 engineering and technology, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), HOLMES, Nuclear physics, Holmium, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, holmium: nuclide, neutrino: mass, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Neutrino mass measurement, Transition edge sensors, activity report, Physics, Detector, sensitivity, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Calorimeter, pile-up, Neutrino, 0210 nano-technology, Transition edge sensor
Abstract: The HOLMES project aims to directly measure the ν mass down to the eV scale using the electron capture decay (EC) of 163Ho. It will perform a precise calorimetric measurement of the end-point of the Ho energy spectrum looking for the deformation caused by a finite ν mass. The choice of 163Ho as source is driven by the very low Q-value of the EC reaction, which allows for high sensitivity with low activities (O(10 2 )Bq/detector), thus reducing the pile-up probability. A large array made by thousands of transition edge sensors based micro-calorimeters will be used. The calorimetric approach eliminates systematic uncertainties arising from the use of an external β source, and minimizes the effect of the atomic de-excitation process. The commissioning of the first implanted sub-array is scheduled for the end of 2018. It will provide useful data about the EC decay of 163Ho together with a first limit on ν mass.
Published: 2019
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45. First search for Lorentz violation in double beta decay with scintillating calorimeters

Author: S. S. Nagorny, C. Gotti, Oliviero Cremonesi, Massimiliano Clemenza, O. Azzolini, L. Pattavina, N. Casali, V. Pettinacci, I. Dafinei, C. Brofferio, S. Di Domizio, Angelo Cruciani, M. Pavan, Ezio Previtali, Stefano Pirro, Marco Pallavicini, Laura Cardani, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, D. Orlandi, Stefano Nisi, M. Vignati, Irene Nutini, G. Pessina, F. Bellini, Paolo Carniti, K. Schäffner, M. Biassoni, M. Beretta, C. Rusconi, S. Pozzi, L. Gironi, C. Nones, A. Puiu, A. S. Zolotarova, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Giuliani, L. Pagnanini, G. Keppel, Davide Chiesa, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CUPID, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Nutini, I, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Lorentz transformation, double beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Bayesian, law.invention, Lorentz violation, scintillating calorimeters, symbols.namesake, bolometer, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Credible interval, calorimeter, Particle Physics Experiments, CPT violation, scintillating calorimeters, Limit (mathematics), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, scintillation counter, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Isotropy, double-beta decay, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), violation: Lorentz, Calorimeter, Scintillation counter, symbols, High Energy Physics::Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: We present the search for Lorentz violation in the double beta decay of ^{82}Se~with CUPID-0, using an exposure of 9.95 kg x y. We found no evidence for the searched signal and set a limit on the isotropic components of the Lorentz violating coefficient of $\mathring{a}_{\text{of}}^{(3)} < 4.1\cdot10^{-6}$ GeV (90\% Credible Interval). This results is obtained with a Bayesian analysis of the experimental data and fully includes the systematic uncertainties of the model. This is the first limit on $\mathring{a}_{\text{of}}^{(3)}$ obtained with a scintillating bolometer, showing the potentiality of this technique.
Published: 2019
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46. CUPID-0: A double-readout cryogenic detector for Double Beta Decay search

Author: D. Orlandi, Davide Chiesa, C. Brofferio, Jeffrey W. Beeman, G. Keppel, S. Di Domizio, C. Rusconi, M. Clemenza, Laura Cardani, K. Schäffner, Stefano Pozzi, L. Pattavina, M. Vignati, Claudio Gotti, S. S. Nagorny, M. Pavan, L. Pagnanini, I. Dafinei, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Silvia Capelli, Marco Pallavicini, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Giuliani, Paolo Carniti, G. Pessina, F. Bellini, C. Zolotarova, M. Beretta, V. Pettinacci, Stefano Pirro, C. Nones, A. Puiu, N. Casali, L. Gironi, M. Biassoni, O. Azzolini, C. Bucci, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. Morganti, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, Stefano Nisi, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, C
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Crystal growth, macro-bolometers, Neutrino-less double beta decay, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, law.invention, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, CUPID, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, selenium, Instrumentation, Scintillation, activity report, 010302 applied physics, Physics, background, Bolometer, Detector, zinc, Alpha background, Background level, Gran Sasso, FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE, ZnSe, calorimeter: cryogenics, scintillation counter: crystal, Cryogenic detectors, High Energy Physics::Experiment, scintillating cryogenic calorimeter, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE, performance
Abstract: CUPID-0 is the first large mass neutrino-less double beta decay ( 0 ν β β ) experiment based on cryogenic calorimeters with dual read-out of light and heat for background rejection. The detector assembly, consisting of 26 ZnSe crystals, 2 natural and 24 enriched at 95% in 82Se, all coupled with bolometric light detectors, has been constructed respecting very strict protocols and procedures, from the material selection during crystal growth to the new and innovative detector framework, in the attempt to achieve the best performance of the array. The successful construction of the detector lead to promising preliminary results, here presented. The array is in fact taking data underground at LNGS (Italy) since March 2017 and the particle identification, enabled by the light read-out, provides an unprecedented background level, for cryogenic calorimeters, of only 3.2 counts keV − 1 t − 1 yr − 1 in the region of interest of the 0 ν β β search for 82Se, namely around 3 MeV.
Published: 2019
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47. Results on double beta decay of 82Se with CUPID-0 Phase i

Author: Davide Chiesa, Jeffrey W. Beeman, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Keppel, L. Pattavina, Massimiliano Clemenza, Stefano Nisi, C. Bucci, S. Di Domizio, N. Casali, C. Rusconi, Laura Cardani, C. Gotti, Paolo Carniti, C. Brofferio, M. Vignati, Simone Capelli, V. Pettinacci, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. Biassoni, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, L. Gironi, S. S. Nagorny, Angelo Cruciani, O. Azzolini, Marco Pallavicini, I. Dafinei, F. Bellini, S. Pozzi, L. Pagnanini, M. Pavan, C. Nones, A. Puiu, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. Giuliani, D. Orlandi, G. Pessina, M. Beretta, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, K. Schäffner, Pagnanini, L, Azzolini, O, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pallavicini, M, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schaffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Zolotarova, A, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: measurement methods, background: model, Phase (waves), [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Lower limit, law.invention, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, Region of interest, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), 010306 general physics, background: radioactivity, scintillation counter, Physics, Measurement method, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Detector, Gran Sasso, Scintillation counter, calorimeter: cryogenics, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Scintillating Bolometers, Cryogenic Detector, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; CUPID-0 is the first neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) experiment based on highly enriched scintillating bolometers. It consists in an array of Zn82Se detectors operated at LNGS since 2017. During the Phase I of data taking, concluded at the end of 2018, the experiment collected an exposure of 9.95 kg·yr of ZnSe. The simultaneous heat-light readout provides a powerful rejection of α-particles and allows us to suppress the background in the region of interest down to 3.5−0.9+1.0×10−3 counts/(keV·kg·y), an unprecedented level for this technique. Thanks to this achievement, we set the most stringent lower limit on the 82Se 0νββ half-life. Moreover, we have developed a full background model, which allows us to identify the origin of the events in the region of interest. The reconstruction of the CUPID-0 spectrum has enabled us to perform the most precise measurement of the 2νββ of 82Se.
Published: 2019
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48. CUPID-0, challenges and achievements in the struggle of 0-background double-beta decay experiments

Author: L. Gironi, N. Casali, G. Keppel, C. Nones, A. Puiu, D. Orlandi, A. D'Addabbo, I. Dafinei, Oliviero Cremonesi, Claudio Gotti, L. Pattavina, Marco Pallavicini, Lucia Canonica, S. Di Domizio, M. Clemenza, G. Pessina, F. Bellini, S. S. Nagorny, C. Bucci, Lorenzo Cassina, Miriam Lucio Martinez, A. Giuliani, Angelo Cruciani, Ezio Previtali, S. Morganti, Silvia Capelli, Laura Cardani, Stefano Pozzi, Massimiliano Nastasi, A. S. Zolotarova, L. Pagnanini, Jeffrey W. Beeman, M. T. Barrera, O. Azzolini, Paolo Carniti, M. Vignati, V. Palmieri, M. Biassoni, V. Pettinacci, Stefano Pirro, M. Pavan, K. Schäffner, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, E. Bossio, M. Beretta, C. Brofferio, C. Rusconi, Stefano Nisi, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Azzolini, O, Barrera, M, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Beretta, M, Biassoni, M, Bossio, E, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Canonica, L, Capelli, S, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cassina, L, Clemenza, M, Cremonesi, O, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, Dafinei, I, Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Keppel, G, Martinez, M, Morganti, S, Nagorny, S, Nastasi, M, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pallavicini, M, Palmieri, V, Pattavina, L, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pirro, S, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, and Zolotarova, A
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, measurement methods, shape analysis, Cryogenic bolometer, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, law.invention, crystal, Nuclear physics, Crystal, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Cryogenic bolometers, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, selenium, Instrumentation, background: radioactivity, scintillation counter, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Bolometer, zinc, Scintillation counter, Neutrinoless double-beta decay, Zinc selenide scintillator, particle identification, performance, Shape analysis (digital geometry), experimental results
Abstract: The background is the key issue of any experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0 ν DBD) and one of the possible solutions is the use of high resolution detectors in which background can be actively discriminated. CUPID-0 is the first 0 ν DBD experiment based on scintillating bolometers able to perform efficient particle identification allowing for background reduction at the unprecedented level of ∼ 10−3 cts/(keV ⋅ kg ⋅ yr). This work makes an overview of the main problems and solutions applied in the construction of the CUPID-0 experimental apparatus, starting from the production of the crystal up to the assembly of the detector. Particular attention is payed to the methods applied to avoid the radio-contamination. The recovery of enriched Se loss along the crystal production cycle is discussed as the main challenge for the budget of this kind of experiments. The good bolometric performance of crystals is emphasized together with supplementary discrimination power offered in the case of ZnSe by the pulse shape analysis, besides the bare scintillation signal. We also make a brief report on detector performance and the results obtained till present which allowed us to establish the world best half-time limit on 82Se 0 ν DBD of >2.4 ⋅ 1024 yr (90% C.I.).
Published: 2019
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49. The LUCIFER Project: Achievements and Near Future Prospects

Author: L. Pattavina, C. Nones, P. Benetti, Ioan Dafinei, Massimiliano Clemenza, A. Giuliani, S. Di Domizio, G. Pessina, M. Maino, K. Schäffner, L. Cardani, L. Gironi, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, G. Piperno, M. Vignati, Ezio Previtali, C. Rusconi, S. S. Nagorny, Claudio Gotti, Davide Chiesa, Stefano Nisi, F. Bellini, N. Casali, Jeffrey W. Beeman, S. Pirro, L. Pagnanini, Beeman, J, Bellini, F, Benetti, P, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Dafinei, I, Di Domizio, S, Ferroni, F, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gotti, C, Maino, M, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Pagnanini, L, Pattavina, L, Pessina, G, Piperno, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rusconi, C, Schäffner, K, Tomei, C, Vignati, M, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Sezione di Roma 1] (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Dipartimento di Chimica = Department of Chemistry [Univ Pavia] (UNIPV), Università degli Studi di Pavia = University of Pavia (UNIPV), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova (INFN, Sezione di Genova), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
Subjects: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optic, Cryogenic detector, Double beta decay, Particle identification, Scintillating bolometer, Zinc selenide, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Science (all), Condensed Matter Physics, energy resolution, zirconium, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, Atomic and Molecular Physics, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], General Materials Science, Absorption (logic), selenium, Physics, zinc, suppression, experimental equipment, cryogenics, Excited state, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Type (model theory), crystal, Nuclear physics, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, scintillation counter, double beta decay, particle identification, scintillating bolometer, zinc selenide, Optics, background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, temperature, Order (ring theory), efficiency, and Optics, absorption, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: In the view of exploring the inverted hierarchy region future experiments investigating the neutrinoless double beta decay have to demand for detectors with excellent energy resolution and zero background in the energy region of interest. Cryogenic scintillating bolometers are very suitable detectors for this task since they provide particle discrimination: the simultaneous detection of the phonon and light signal allows us to identify the interacting type of particle and thus guarantees a suppression of $$\alpha $$ -induced backgrounds, the key-issue for next-generation tonne-scale bolometric experiments. The LUCIFER project aims at running the first array of enriched scintillating Zn $$^{\text {82}}$$ Se bolometers (total mass of about 8kg of $$^{\text {82}}$$ Se) with a background level as low as 10 $$^{\text {--3}}$$ counts/(keV kg y) in the energy region of interest. The main effort is currently focused on the finalization of the crystal growth procedure in order to achieve high quality Zn $$^{\text {82}}$$ Se crystals both in terms of radiopurity and bolometric properties. We present results from tests of such crystals operated at mK temperatures which demonstrate the excellent background rejection capabilities of this detection approach towards a background-free demonstrator experiment. Besides, the high purity of the enriched $$^{\text {82}}$$ Se material allows us to establish the most stringent limits on the half-life of the double beta decay of $$^{\text {82}}$$ Se on excited levels.
Published: 2016
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50. An innovative technique for the investigation of the 4-fold forbidden beta-decay of 50V

Author: S. S. Nagorny, M. Laubenstein, Stefano Nisi, S. Pirro, K. Schäffner, C. Rusconi, L. Pattavina, L. Pagnanini, Pattavina, L, Laubenstein, M, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Pagnanini, L, Pirro, S, Rusconi, C, and Schaeffner, K
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Vanadium, chemistry.chemical_element, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, Beta decay, Particle detector, law.invention, chemistry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear fusion, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, 4-fold forbidden beta-decay
Abstract: For the first time a Vanadium-based crystal was operated as cryogenic particle detector. The scintillating low temperature calorimetric technique was used for the characterization of a 22g YVO4 crystal aiming at the investigation of the 4-fold forbidden non-unique $\beta^{-}$ decay of 50V. The excellent bolometric performance of the compound together with high light output of the crystal make it an outstanding technique for the study of such elusive rate process. The internal radioactive contaminations of the crystal are also investigated showing that an improvement on the current status of material selection and purification are needed, 235/238U and 232Th are measured at the level of 28mBq/kg, 1.3 Bq/kg and 28m Bq/kg, respectively. In this work, we also discuss a future upgrade of the experimental set-up which may pave the road for the detection of the rare 50V $\beta^{-}$ decay.
Published: 2018
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