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1. Development of MMC-based lithium molybdate cryogenic calorimeters for AMoRE-II

Author: Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Bae, H., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, S., Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, D. Y., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The AMoRE collaboration searches for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo using molybdate scintillating crystals via low temperature thermal calorimetric detection. The early phases of the experiment, AMoRE-pilot and AMoRE-I, have demonstrated competitive discovery potential. Presently, the AMoRE-II experiment, featuring a large detector array with about 90 kg of $^{100}$Mo isotope, is under construction.This paper discusses the baseline design and characterization of the lithium molybdate cryogenic calorimeters to be used in the AMoRE-II detector modules. The results from prototype setups that incorporate new housing structures and two different crystal masses (316 g and 517 - 521 g), operated at 10 mK temperature, show energy resolutions (FWHM) of 7.55 - 8.82 keV at the 2.615 MeV $^{208}$Tl $\gamma$ line, and effective light detection of 0.79 - 0.96 keV/MeV. The simultaneous heat and light detection enables clear separation of alpha particles with a discrimination power of 12.37 - 19.50 at the energy region around $^6$Li(n, $\alpha$)$^3$H with Q-value = 4.785 MeV. Promising detector performances were demonstrated at temperatures as high as 30 mK, which relaxes the temperature constraints for operating the large AMoRE-II array.
Published: 2024

2. Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of \mohundred~from AMoRE-I

Author: Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: AMoRE searches for the signature of neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo with a 100 kg sample of enriched $^{100}$Mo. Scintillating molybdate crystals coupled with a metallic magnetic calorimeter operate at milli-Kelvin temperatures to measure the energy of electrons emitted in the decay. As a demonstration of the full-scale AMoRE, we conducted AMoRE-I, a pre-experiment with 18 molybdate crystals, at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory for over two years. The exposure was 8.02 kg$\cdot$year (or 3.89 kg$_{\mathrm{^{100}Mo}}\cdot$year) and the total background rate near the Q-value was 0.025 $\pm$ 0.002 counts/keV/kg/year. We observed no indication of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay and report a new lower limit of the half-life of $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay as $ T^{0\nu}_{1/2}>3.0\times10^{24}~\mathrm{years}$ at 90\% confidence level. The effective Majorana mass limit range is $m_{\beta\beta}<$(210--610) meV using nuclear matrix elements estimated in the framework of different models, including the recent shell model calculations., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2024

3. Projected background and sensitivity of AMoRE-II

Author: Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwnag, D. H., Jeona, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kuzminov, V. Kornoukhov V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Rooh, S. S. Ratkevich G., Sari, M. B., Seob, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: AMoRE-II aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay with an array of 423 Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals operating in the cryogenic system as the main phase of the Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE). AMoRE has been planned to operate in three phases: AMoRE-pilot, AMoRE-I, and AMoRE-II. AMoRE-II is currently being installed at the Yemi Underground Laboratory, located approximately 1000 meters deep in Jeongseon, Korea. The goal of AMoRE-II is to reach up to $T^{0\nu\beta\beta}_{1/2}$ $\sim$ 6 $\times$ 10$^{26}$ years, corresponding to an effective Majorana mass of 15 - 29 meV, covering all the inverted mass hierarchy regions. To achieve this, the background level of the experimental configurations and possible background sources of gamma and beta events should be well understood. We have intensively performed Monte Carlo simulations using the GEANT4 toolkit in all the experimental configurations with potential sources. We report the estimated background level that meets the 10$^{-4}$counts/(keV$\cdot$kg$\cdot$yr) requirement for AMoRE-II in the region of interest (ROI) and show the projected half-life sensitivity based on the simulation study.
Published: 2024

4. Searching for Beyond the Standard Model physics using the improved description of $^{100}$Mo $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay spectral shape with CUPID-Mo

Author: Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Šimkovic, F., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., War, B., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The current experiments searching for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay also collect large statistics of Standard Model allowed two-neutrino double-$\beta$ ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay events. These can be used to search for Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics via $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay spectral distortions. $^{100}$Mo has a natural advantage due to its relatively short half-life, allowing higher $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay statistics at equal exposures compared to the other isotopes. We demonstrate the potential of the dual read-out bolometric technique exploiting a $^{100}$Mo exposure of 1.47 kg $\times$ y, acquired in the CUPID-Mo experiment at the Modane underground laboratory (France). We set limits on $0\nu\beta\beta$ decays with the emission of one or more Majorons, on $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay with Lorentz violation, and $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay with a sterile neutrino emission. In this analysis, we investigate the systematic uncertainty induced by modeling the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay spectral shape parameterized through an improved model, an effect never considered before. This work motivates searches for BSM processes in the upcoming CUPID experiment, which will collect the largest amount of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay events among the next-generation experiments.
Published: 2024

5. Low-Temperature Heat Capacity of Zinc Tungstate Single Crystal

Author: Musikhin, A. E., Miller, E. F., Gelfond, N. V., and Shlegel’, V. N.
Published: 2024
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6. Background study of the AMoRE-pilot experiment

Author: Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report a study on the background of the Advanced Molybdenum-Based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE), a search for neutrinoless double beta decay (\znbb) of $^{100}$Mo. The pilot stage of the experiment was conducted using $\sim$1.9 kg of \CAMOO~ crystals at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory, South Korea, from 2015 to 2018. We compared the measured $\beta/\gamma$ energy spectra in three experimental configurations with the results of Monte Carlo simulations and identified the background sources in each configuration. We replaced several detector components and enhanced the neutron shielding to lower the background level between configurations. A limit on the half-life of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo was found at $T_{1/2}^{0\nu} \ge 3.0\times 10^{23}$ years at 90\% confidence level, based on the measured background and its modeling. Further reduction of the background rate in the AMoRE-I and AMoRE-II are discussed.
Published: 2024

7. Development of a Dual Cryogenic Detection System for the Forbidden Non-unique β-Decay Spectrum Study

Author: Kim, H. L., Kim, H. J., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Lee, M. H., Lee, Y. C., Nagorny, S. S., Shlegel, V. N., and So, J.
Published: 2024
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8. Searching for beyond the Standard Model physics using the improved description of 100Mo 2νββ decay spectral shape with CUPID-Mo

Author: Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Šimkovic, F., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Ware, B., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Published: 2024
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9. Measurement of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay rate and spectral shape of $^{100}$Mo from the CUPID-Mo experiment

Author: Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, 6 M., Berge, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Simkovic, F., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velazquez, M., Ware, B., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a yet unobserved nuclear process which would demonstrate Lepton Number violation, a clear evidence of beyond Standard Model physics. The process two neutrino double beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta)$ is allowed by the Standard Model and has been measured in numerous experiments. In this letter, we report a measurement of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life of $^{100}$Mo to the ground state of $^{100}$Ru of $(7.07~\pm~0.02~\text{(stat.)}~\pm~0.11~\text{(syst.)})~\times~10^{18}$~yr by the CUPID-Mo experiment. With a relative precision of $\pm~1.6$ \% this is the most precise measurement to date of a $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay rate in $^{100}$Mo. In addition, we constrain higher-order corrections to the spectral shape which provides complementary nuclear structure information. We report a novel measurement of the shape factor $\xi_{3,1}=0.45~\pm 0.03~\text{(stat.)} \ \pm 0.05 \ \text{(syst.)}$, which is compared to theoretical predictions for different nuclear models. We also extract the first value for the effective axial vector coupling constant obtained from a spectral shape study of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2023

10. The background model of the CUPID-Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment

Author: Collaboration, CUPID-Mo, Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: CUPID-Mo, located in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France), was a demonstrator for the next generation $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay experiment, CUPID. It consisted of an array of 20 enriched Li$_{2}$$ ^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometers and 20 Ge light detectors and has demonstrated that the technology of scintillating bolometers with particle identification capabilities is mature. Furthermore, CUPID-Mo can inform and validate the background prediction for CUPID. In this paper, we present a detailed model of the CUPID-Mo backgrounds. This model is able to describe well the features of the experimental data and enables studies of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay and other processes with high precision. We also measure the radio-purity of the Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals which are found to be sufficient for the CUPID goals. Finally, we also obtain a background index in the region of interest of 3.7$^{+0.9}_{-0.8}$(stat)$^{+1.5}_{-0.7}$(syst)$\times10^{-3}$counts/$\Delta$E$_{FWHM}$/mol$_{iso}$/yr, the lowest in a bolometric $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay experiment.
Published: 2023
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11. Formation of Na2Mo2XW2(1−X)O7 Solid Solutions and Derived Phase Diagram

Author: Bondareva, A. F., Artemyeva, M. A., Kuznetsov, A. B., Ryadun, A. A., Grigorieva, V. D., Fedorenko, A. D., Shlegel, V. N., and Musikhin, A. E.
Published: 2024
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12. Li$_2$$^{100\textrm{depl}}$MoO$_4$ Scintillating Bolometers for Rare-Event Search Experiments

Author: Bandac, I. C., Barabash, A. S., Bergé, L., Borovlev, Yu. A., Calvo-Mozota, J. M., Carniti, P., Chapellier, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., Dumoulin, L., Ferri, F., Giuliani, A., Gotti, C., Gras, Ph., Grigorieva, V. D., Ianni, A., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Konovalov, S. I., Loaiza, P., Madhukuttan, M., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marnieros, S., Marrache-Kikuchi, C. A., Martinez, M., Nones, C., Olivieri, E., de Solórzano, A. Ortiz, Pessina, G., Poda, D. V., Redon, Th., Scarpaci, J. A., Shlegel, V. N., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., and Zolotarova, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on the development of scintillating bolometers based on lithium molybdate crystals containing molybdenum depleted in the double-$\beta$ active isotope $^{100}$Mo (Li$_2$$^{100\textrm{depl}}$MoO$_4$). We used two Li$_2$$^{100\textrm{depl}}$MoO$_4$ cubic samples, 45 mm side and 0.28 kg each, produced following purification and crystallization protocols developed for double-$\beta$ search experiments with $^{100}$Mo-enriched Li$_2$MoO$_4$ crystals. Bolometric Ge detectors were utilized to register scintillation photons emitted by the Li$_2$$^{100\textrm{depl}}$MoO$_4$ crystal scintillators. The measurements were performed in the CROSS cryogenic set-up at the Canfranc underground laboratory (Spain). We observed that the Li$_2$$^{100\textrm{depl}}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers are characterized by excellent spectrometric performance ($\sim$3--6 keV FWHM at 0.24--2.6 MeV $\gamma$'s), moderate scintillation signal ($\sim$0.3--0.6 keV/MeV depending on light collection conditions) and high radiopurity ($^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra activities are below a few $\mu$Bq/kg), comparable to the best reported results of low-temperature detectors based on Li$_2$MoO$_4$ with natural or $^{100}$Mo-enriched molybdenum content. Prospects of Li$_2$$^{100\textrm{depl}}$MoO$_4$ bolometers for use in rare-event search experiments are briefly discussed., Comment: Prepared for submission to MDPI Sensors; 16 pages, 7 figures, and 3 tables
Published: 2023

13. A first test of CUPID prototypal light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a pulse-tube cryostat

Author: CUPID collaboration, Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Berest, V., 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., Dompé, 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., Girola, M., 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., 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. A., 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: CUPID is a next-generation bolometric experiment aiming at searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with ~250 kg of isotopic mass of $^{100}$Mo. It will operate at $\sim$10 mK in a cryostat currently hosting a similar-scale bolometric array for the CUORE experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy). CUPID will be based on large-volume scintillating bolometers consisting of $^{100}$Mo-enriched Li$_2$MoO$_4$ crystals, facing thin Ge-wafer-based bolometric light detectors. In the CUPID design, the detector structure is novel and needs to be validated. In particular, the CUORE cryostat presents a high level of mechanical vibrations due to the use of pulse tubes and the effect of vibrations on the detector performance must be investigated. In this paper we report the first test of the CUPID-design bolometric light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a dilution refrigerator equipped with a pulse tube in an above-ground lab. Light detectors are characterized in terms of sensitivity, energy resolution, pulse time constants, and noise power spectrum. Despite the challenging noisy environment due to pulse-tube-induced vibrations, we demonstrate that all the four tested light detectors comply with the CUPID goal in terms of intrinsic energy resolution of 100 eV RMS baseline noise. Indeed, we have measured 70--90 eV RMS for the four devices, which show an excellent reproducibility. We have also obtained outstanding energy resolutions at the 356 keV line from a $^{133}$Ba source with one light detector achieving 0.71(5) keV FWHM, which is -- to our knowledge -- the best ever obtained when compared to $\gamma$ detectors of any technology in this energy range., Comment: Prepared for submission to JINST; 16 pages, 7 figures, and 1 table
Published: 2023
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14. Twelve-crystal prototype of Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments

Author: CUPID, collaborations, CROSS, Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Bandac, I. C., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Berest, V., Beretta, M., Bettelli, M., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Calvo-Mozota, J. M., 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., Dompé, 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., Girola, M., 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., Ianni, A., 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., Marrache-Kikuchi, C. A., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mas, Ph., 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. A., 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: An array of twelve 0.28 kg lithium molybdate (LMO) low-temperature bolometers equipped with 16 bolometric Ge light detectors, aiming at optimization of detector structure for CROSS and CUPID double-beta decay experiments, was constructed and tested in a low-background pulse-tube-based cryostat at the Canfranc underground laboratory in Spain. Performance of the scintillating bolometers was studied depending on the size of phonon NTD-Ge sensors glued to both LMO and Ge absorbers, shape of the Ge light detectors (circular vs. square, from two suppliers), in different light collection conditions (with and without reflector, with aluminum coated LMO crystal surface). The scintillating bolometer array was operated over 8 months in the low-background conditions that allowed to probe a very low, $\mu$Bq/kg, level of the LMO crystals radioactive contamination by $^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra., Comment: Prepared for submission to JINST; 23 pages, 9 figures, and 4 tables
Published: 2023
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15. New measurement of double beta decays of $^{100}$Mo to excited states of $^{100}$Ru with the CUPID-Mo experiment

Author: Collaboration, CUPID-Mo, Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotilla, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The CUPID-Mo experiment, located at Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France), was a demonstrator experiment for CUPID. It consisted of an array of 20 Li$_2^{100}$MoO$_4$ (LMO) calorimeters each equipped with a Ge light detector (LD) for particle identification. In this work, we present the result of a search for two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays of $^{100}$Mo to the first 0$^+$ and $2^+$ excited states of $^{100}$Ru using the full CUPID-Mo exposure (2.71 kg$\times$yr of LMO). We measure the half-life of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay to the $0^{+}_1$ state as $T_{1/2}^{2\nu \rightarrow 0_1^+}=7.5\pm 0.8 \ \text{(stat.)} \ ^{+ 0.4}_{-0.3} \ \text{(syst.)} )\times 10^{20} \ \mathrm{yr}$. The bolometric technique enables measurement of the electron energies as well as the gamma rays from nuclear de-excitation and this allows us to set new limits on the two-neutrino decay to the $2_1^+$ state of $T^{2\nu \rightarrow 2_1^+}_{1/2}>4.4\times 10^{21} \ \mathrm{yr} \ \text{(90 % c.i.)}$ and on the neutrinoless modes of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu\rightarrow 2_1^+}>2.1\times10^{23} \ \mathrm{yr}\ \text{(90 % c.i.)}$, $T_{1/2}^{0\nu\rightarrow 0_1^+}>1.2\times10^{23} \ \mathrm{yr}\ \text{(90 % c.i.)}$. Information on the electrons spectral shape is obtained which allows us to make the first comparison of the single state (SSD) and higher state (HSD) $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay models for the $0_1^+$ excited state of $^{100}$Ru., Comment: 22 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2022

16. Toward CUPID-1T

Author: Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Ballen, K., 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., 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., 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., 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, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kowalski, R., Langford, T., Liu, R., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., 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., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J., 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Current experiments to search for broken lepton-number symmetry through the observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$) provide the most stringent limits on the Majorana nature of neutrinos and the effective Majorana neutrino mass ($m_{\beta\beta}$). The next-generation experiments will focus on the sensitivity to the $0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$ half-life of $\mathcal{O}(10^{27}$--$10^{28}$~years$)$ and $m_{\beta\beta}\lesssim15$~meV, which would provide complete coverage of the so-called Inverted Ordering region of the neutrino mass parameter space. By taking advantage of recent technological breakthroughs, new, future calorimetric experiments at the 1-ton scale can increase the sensitivity by at least another order of magnitude, exploring the large fraction of the parameter space that corresponds to the Normal neutrino mass ordering. In case of a discovery, such experiments could provide important insights toward a new understanding of the mechanism of $0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$. We present here a series of projects underway that will provide advancements in background reduction, cryogenic readout, and physics searches beyond $0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$, all moving toward the next-to-next generation CUPID-1T detector., Comment: contribution to Snowmass 2021
Published: 2022

17. Optical, luminescence, and scintillation properties of advanced ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillators

Author: Belli, P., Bernabei, R., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cappella, F., Caracciolo, V., Cerulli, R., Danevich, F. A., Degoda, V. Ya., Incicchitti, A., Kasperovych, D. V., Kogut, Ya. P., Leoncini, A., Podust, G. P., Postupaeva, A. G., and Shlegel, V. N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Zinc tungstate (ZnWO$_4$) crystal scintillators are promising detection material for the experiments searching for double beta decay, dark matter, and investigating rare alpha decays. An extended R&D was performed to develop advanced quality ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillators. The R&D programme included the selection of the initial materials, the variation of the compound stoichiometry, the application of single and double crystallization, and the annealing of the crystal boules. The optical transmittance of the produced boules was measured, and the luminescence under X-ray excitation in the temperature region from 85 K to room temperature was studied (thermally stimulated luminescence was measured till 350 K). The energy resolution and the relative scintillation pulse amplitude were measured with gamma-sources demonstrating high scintillation properties of the samples produced by single crystallization from deeply purified zinc and tungsten oxides, with stoichiometric composition, annealed in air atmosphere., Comment: 14 pages; 10 figures
Published: 2022
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18. Final results on the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life limit of $^{100}$Mo from the CUPID-Mo experiment

Author: Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z. Huang R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The CUPID-Mo experiment to search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo has been recently completed after about 1.5 years of operation at Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France). It served as a demonstrator for CUPID, a next generation 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay experiment. CUPID-Mo was comprised of 20 enriched Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating calorimeters, each with a mass of $\sim$ 0.2 kg, operated at $\sim$20 mK. We present here the final analysis with the full exposure of CUPID-Mo ($^{100}$Mo exposure of 1.47 kg$\times$yr) used to search for lepton number violation via 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay. We report on various analysis improvements since the previous result on a subset of data, reprocessing all data with these new techniques. We observe zero events in the region of interest and set a new limit on the $^{100}$Mo 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life of $T^{0\nu}_{1/2} > 1.8 \times 10^{24}$ year (stat.+syst.) at 90% CI. Under the light Majorana neutrino exchange mechanism this corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass of $\left < (0.28$--$0.49)$ eV, dependent upon the nuclear matrix element utilized.
Published: 2022
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19. Optimization of the first CUPID detector module

Author: CUPID collaboration, Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Ballen, K., 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., 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., Huang, R. G., 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., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J., 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: CUPID will be a next generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double $\beta$ 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}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals coupled to light detectors. Indeed, the simultaneous heat and light detection allows us to reject the dominant background of $\alpha$ 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 $\pm$ 0.2) keV FWHM at the $Q$-value of $^{100}$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 $\alpha$ particle rejection higher than 99.9%, fully satisfying the requirements for CUPID., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2022

20. Alpha backgrounds in the AMoRE-Pilot experiment

Author: Alenkov, V., Bae, H. W., Beyer, J., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choi, S. H., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A., Gastaldo, L., Gavriljuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A., Grigoryeva, V. D., Gurentsov, V., Ha, D. H., Ha, C., Ha, E. J., Hahn, I., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, S. J., Kang, W. G., Karki, S., Kazalov, V., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. -Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, I., Kim, W. T., Kim, S., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. S., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. W., Leonard, D. S., Li, J., Li, Y., Limkitjaroenporn, P., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Oh, S. Y., Oh, Y. M., Gileva, O., Olsen, S., Pabitra, A., Panasenko, S., Pandey, I., Park, C. W., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Ratkevich, S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Shin, J. W., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. -K., Srisittipokakun, N., Toibaev, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE)-Pilot experiment is an initial phase of the AMoRE search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo, with the purpose of investigating the level and sources of backgrounds. Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay generally require ultimately low backgrounds. Surface $\alpha$ decays on the crystals themselves or nearby materials can deposit a continuum of energies that can be as high as the $Q$-value of the decay itself and may fall in the region of interest (ROI). To understand these background events, we studied backgrounds from radioactive contaminations internal to and on the surface of the crystals or nearby materials with Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulations. In this study, we report on the measured $\alpha$ energy spectra fitted with the corresponding simulated spectra for six crystal detectors, where sources of background contributions could be identified through high energy $\alpha$ peaks and continuum parts in the energy spectrum for both internal and surface contaminations. We determine the low-energy contributions from internal and surface $\alpha$ contaminations by extrapolating from the $\alpha$ background fitting model.
Published: 2021
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21. A CUPID Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility

Author: The CUPID Interest Group, Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Bandac, I. C., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Bourgeois, Ch., 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., Cova, F., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., de Combarieu, M., De Deo, M., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Dompe, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Fasoli, M., 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, Yu. 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., Vedda, 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
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}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for high-sensitivity searches for the $^{100}$Mo $0\nu2\beta$ decay in CROSS and CUPID projects., Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Published: 2020
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22. Characterization of cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals for the CUPID experiment

Author: Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Barabash, A., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergè, 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., Cova, F., 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., Dompé, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Fasoli, M., 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, Yu. 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. 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., Vedda, 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
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}$$^{100}$MoO$_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) keV FWHM in the region of interest, approaching the CUPID target of 5 keV FWHM. We assessed the identification of $\alpha$ 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 $\alpha$-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: 2020

23. New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of $^{100}$Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment

Author: Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., Chiesa, D., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The CUPID-Mo experiment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) is a demonstrator for CUPID, the next-generation ton-scale cryogenic $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment. It consists of a 4.2 kg array of 20 enriched Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers to search for the lepton number violating process of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo. With more than one year of operation (2.16 kg$\times$yr of physics data), no event in the region of interest and hence no evidence for $0\nu\beta\beta$ is observed. We report a new limit on the half-life of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo of $T_{1/2} > 1.5 \times 10^{24}\,$yr at 90 % C.I. The limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass $\langle m_{\beta\beta} \rangle$ $<$ (0.31--0.54)$\,$eV, dependent on the nuclear matrix element in the light Majorana neutrino exchange interpretation.
Published: 2020
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24. Novel technique for the study of pile-up events in cryogenic bolometers

Author: Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Barabash, A., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, 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., Dompè, 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, Yu. 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: 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 ~15ms down to time separation between the individual events of about 2ms.
Published: 2020
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25. Novel compositionally disordered (Pb,Sr)WO4 single-crystalline scintillation material for X- and gamma-ray scanners

Author: Korzhik, M., Amelina, A., Fedorov, A., Bondarau, A., Karpyuk, P., Komendo, I., Borovlev, Yu, Mechinsky, V., Postupaeva, A., Shlegel, V., Shpinkov, I., and Vasil’ev, A.
Published: 2025
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26. Thermodynamics of Cesium Molybdate-Based Single Crystals: Standard Enthalpy of Formation, Lattice Enthalpy, and Heat Capacity

Author: Matskevich, N. I., Semerikova, A. N., Trifonov, V. A., Samoshkin, D. A., Chernov, A. A., Stankus, S. V., Luk’yanova, S. A., Shlegel’, V. N., Zaitsev, V. P., and Kuznetsov, V. A.
Published: 2023
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27. Pulse Shape Discrimination in CUPID-Mo using Principal Component Analysis

Author: Huang, R., Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M. M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: CUPID-Mo is a cryogenic detector array designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo. It uses 20 scintillating $^{100}$Mo-enriched Li$_2$MoO$_4$ bolometers instrumented with Ge light detectors to perform active suppression of $\alpha$ backgrounds, drastically reducing the expected background in the $0\nu\beta\beta$ signal region. As a result, pileup events and small detector instabilities that mimic normal signals become non-negligible potential backgrounds. These types of events can in principle be eliminated based on their signal shapes, which are different from those of regular bolometric pulses. We show that a purely data-driven principal component analysis based approach is able to filter out these anomalous events, without the aid of detector response simulations.
Published: 2020
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28. Precise measurement of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo with the CUPID-Mo detection technology

Author: Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Briere, M., Brudanin, V., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Elkhoury, E., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X-F., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We report the measurement of the two-neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{100}$Mo to the ground state of $^{100}$Ru using lithium molybdate (\crystal) scintillating bolometers. The detectors were developed for the CUPID-Mo program and operated at the EDELWEISS-III low background facility in the Modane underground laboratory. From a total exposure of $42.235$ kg$\times$d, the half-life of $^{100}$Mo is determined to be $T_{1/2}^{2\nu}=[7.12^{+0.18}_{-0.14}\,\mathrm{(stat.)}\pm0.10\,\mathrm{(syst.)}]\times10^{18}$ years. This is the most accurate determination of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ half-life of $^{100}$Mo to date. We also confirm, with the statistical significance of $>3\sigma$, that the single-state dominance model of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo is favored over the high-state dominance model., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2019
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29. Na-based crystal scintillators for next-generation rare event searches

Author: Nagorny, S., Rusconi, C., Sorbino, S., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, F., Cardani, L., Grigorieva, V. D., Pagnanini, L., Nisi, S., Pirro, S., Schäffner, K., and Shlegel, V. N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The growing interest in clarifying the controversial situation in the Dark Matter sector has driven the experimental efforts towards new ways to investigate the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA result. Among them, low-temperature calorimeters based on Na-containing scintillating crystals offer the possibility to clarify the nature of the measured signal via particle identification. Here we report the first measurement of Na-containing crystals, based on material different from NaI, i.e. Na$_2$Mo$_2$O$_7$ and Na$_2$W$_2$O$_7$, pointing out their excellent performance in term of energy resolution, light yield, and particle identification.
Published: 2019
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30. First data from the CUPID-Mo neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

Author: Schmidt, B., Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Briere, M., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Elkhoury, E., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Sorbino, S., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The CUPID-Mo experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{100}$Mo, evaluating the technology of cryogenic scintillating Li$_{2}^{100}$MoO$_4$ detectors for CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ID). CUPID-Mo detectors feature background suppression using a dual-readout scheme with Li$_{2}$MoO$_4$ crystals complemented by Ge bolometers for light detection. The detection of both heat and scintillation light signals allows the efficient discrimination of $\alpha$ from $\gamma$&$\beta$ events. In this proceedings, we discuss results from the first 2 months of data taking in spring 2019. In addition to an excellent bolometric performance of 6.7$\,$keV (FWHM) at 2615$\,$keV and an $\alpha$ separation of better than 99.9\% for all detectors, we report on bulk radiopurity for Th and U. Finally, we interpret the accumulated physics data in terms of a limit of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu}\,> 3\times10^{23}\,$yr for $^{100}$Mo and discuss the sensitivity of CUPID-Mo until the expected end of physics data taking in early 2020., Comment: Proceedings for TAUP 2019, submitted to IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Published: 2019
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31. Compositionally disordered tungstate scintillation materials

Author: Korzhik, M., Blau, D., Fedorov, A., Bondarau, A., Borovlev, Yu, Amelina, A., Komendo, I., Kuznetsova, D., Mikhlin, A., Mechinsky, V., Postupaeva, A., Shlegel, V., Talochka, Y., and Uglov, V.
Published: 2023
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32. Machine Learning Techniques for Pile-Up Rejection in Cryogenic Calorimeters

Author: Fantini, G., Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone, III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Barabash, A., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, 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., Cova, F., 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., Domizio, S. Di, Dompè, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fasoli, M., 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, Yu. 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., Vedda, 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Published: 2022
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33. CUPID: The Next-Generation Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment

Author: Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone, III, 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., Domizio, S. Di, Lorenzo, S. Di, 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. A., 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Published: 2022
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34. A Study on PbMoO4 Phonon-Scintillation Detection with MMC Readouts for a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search

Author: Kim, H. L., So, J. H., Kim, Y. H., Kim, H. J., Nagorny, S. S., Kim, S. R., Kim, Y. D., Lee, M. H., and Shlegel, V. N.
Published: 2022
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35. The CUPID-Mo experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay: performance and prospects

Author: Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Briere, M., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Elkhoury, E., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Sorbino, S., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: CUPID-Mo is a bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo. In this article, we detail the CUPID-Mo detector concept, assembly, installation in the underground laboratory in Modane in 2018, and provide results from the first datasets. The demonstrator consists of an array of 20 scintillating bolometers comprised of $^{100}$Mo-enriched 0.2 kg Li$_2$MoO$_4$ crystals. The detectors are complemented by 20 thin cryogenic Ge bolometers acting as light detectors to distinguish $\alpha$ from $\gamma$/$\beta$ events by the detection of both heat and scintillation light signals. We observe good detector uniformity, facilitating the operation of a large detector array as well as excellent energy resolution of 5.3 keV (6.5 keV) FWHM at 2615 keV, in calibration (physics) data. Based on the observed energy resolutions and light yields a separation of $\alpha$ particles at much better than 99.9\% with equally high acceptance for $\gamma$/$\beta$ events is expected for events in the region of interest for $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$. We present limits on the crystals' radiopurity ($\leq$3 $\mu$Bq/kg of $^{226}$Ra and $\leq$2 $\mu$Bq/kg of $^{232}$Th). Based on these initial results we also discuss a sensitivity study for the science reach of the CUPID-Mo experiment, in particular, the ability to set the most stringent half-life limit on the $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay after half a year of livetime. The achieved results show that CUPID-Mo is a successful demonstrator of the technology - developed in the framework of the LUMINEU project - selected for the CUPID experiment, a proposed follow-up of CUORE, the currently running first tonne-scale cryogenic $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment., Comment: 15 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables; to be submitted to EPJC
Published: 2019
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36. Production and characterization of a PbMoO$_4$ cryogenic detector from archaeological Pb

Author: Pattavina, L., Nagorny, S., Nisi, S., Pagnanini, L., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Rusconi, C., Schaeffner, K., Shlegel, V. N., and Zhdankov, V. N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract: We operated a 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 the production of large volume high quality crystal. The overall characteristics of the detector operated at cryogenic temperatures makes PbMoO$_4$ an excellent compound for neutrino physics applications, especially neutrinoless double-beta studies.
Published: 2019

37. First Results from the AMoRE-Pilot neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

Author: Alenkov, V., Bae, H. W., Beyer, J., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Chernyak, D. M., Choe, J. S., Choi, S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavriljuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Grigoryeva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Gylova, O., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hahn, I. S., Jang, C. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, S. J., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, I., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. G., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J. S., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D., Li, J., Li, Y., Limkitjaroenporn, P., Makarov, E. P., Oh, S. Y., Oh, Y. M., Olsen, S. L., Pabitra, A., Panasenko, S. I., Pandey, I., Park, C. W., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, K. M., Shin, J. W., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J. H., Son, J. K., Srisittipokakun, N., Sujita, K., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yoon, Y. S., Yue, Q., and Zaman, S. U.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE) aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo with $\sim$100 kg of $^{100}$Mo-enriched molybdenum embedded in cryogenic detectors with a dual heat and light readout. At the current, pilot stage of the AMoRE project we employ six calcium molybdate crystals with a total mass of 1.9 kg, produced from $^{48}$Ca-depleted calcium and $^{100}$Mo-enriched molybdenum ($^{48\textrm{depl}}$Ca$^{100}$MoO$_4$). The simultaneous detection of heat(phonon) and scintillation (photon) signals is realized with high resolution metallic magnetic calorimeter sensors that operate at milli-Kelvin temperatures. This stage of the project is carried out in the Yangyang underground laboratory at a depth of 700 m. We report first results from the AMoRE-Pilot $0\nu\beta\beta$ search with a 111 kg$\cdot$d live exposure of $^{48\textrm{depl}}$Ca$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals. No evidence for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo is found, and a upper limit is set for the half-life of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ of $^{100}$Mo of $T^{0\nu}_{1/2} > 9.5\times10^{22}$ y at 90% C.L.. This limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass limit in the range $\langle m_{\beta\beta}\rangle\le(1.2-2.1)$ eV.
Published: 2019
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38. First results on sub-GeV spin-dependent dark matter interactions with $^{7}$Li

Author: Abdelhameed, A. H., Angloher, G., Bauer, P., Bento, A., Bertoldo, E., Bucci, C., Canonica, L., D'Addabbo, A., Defay, X., Di Lorenzo, S., Erb, A., Feilitzsch, F. v., Iachellini, N. Ferreiro, Fichtinger, S., Fuss, A., Gorla, P., Hauff, D., Jochum, J., Kinast, A., Kluck, H., Kraus, H., Langenkämper, A., Mancuso, M., Mokina, V., Mondragon, E., Münster, A., Olmi, M., Ortmann, T., Pagliarone, C., Pattavina, L., Petricca, F., Potzel, W., Pröbst, F., Reindl, F., Rothe, J., Schäffner, K., Schieck, J., Schipperges, V., Schmiedmayer, D., Schönert, S., Schwertner, C., Stahlberg, M., Stodolsky, L., Strandhagen, C., Strauss, R., Türkoglu, C., Usherov, I., Willers, M., Zema, V., Chapellier, M., Giuliani, A., Nones, C., Poda, D. V., Shlegel, V. N., Velázquez, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: In this work, we want to highlight the potential of lithium as a target for spin-dependent dark matter search in cryogenic experiments, with a special focus on the low-mass region of the parameter space. We operated a prototype detector module based on a Li$_2$MoO$_4$ target crystal in an above-ground laboratory. Despite the high background environment, the detector sets competitive limits on spin-dependent interactions of dark matter particles with protons and neutrons for masses between 0.8 GeV/c$^2$ and 1.5 GeV/c$^2$.
Published: 2019
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39. The background model of the CUPID-Mo 0νββ experiment

Author: Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X.-F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Published: 2023
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40. Final results of the Aurora experiment to study 2$\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd with enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillators

Author: Barabash, A. S., Belli, P., Bernabei, R., Cappella, F., Caracciolo, V., Cerulli, R., Chernyak, D. M., Danevich, F. A., d'Angelo, S., Incicchitti, A., Kasperovych, D. V., Kobychev, V. V., Konovalov, S. I., Laubenstein, M., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Shlegel, V. N., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., and Vasiliev, Ya. V.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The double-beta decay of $^{116}$Cd has been investigated with the help of radiopure enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillators (mass of 1.162 kg) at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. The half-life of $^{116}$Cd relatively to the $2\nu2\beta$ decay to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn was measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy as $T_{1/2}=(2.63^{+0.11}_{-0.12})\times10^{19}$ yr. A new improved limit on the 0$\nu$2$\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn was set as $T_{1/2}\geq 2.2 \times 10^{23}$ yr at 90\% C.L., which is the most stringent known restriction for this isotope. It corresponds to the effective Majorana neutrino mass limit in the range $\langle m_\nu\rangle\le(1.0-1.7)$ eV, depending on the nuclear matrix elements used in the estimations. New improved half-life limits for the 0$\nu$2$\beta$ decay with majoron(s) emission, Lorentz-violating $2\nu2\beta$ decay and $2\beta$ transitions to excited states of $^{116}$Sn were set at the level of $T_{1/2}\geq 10^{20}-10^{22}$ yr. New limits for the hypothetical lepton-number violating parameters (right-handed currents admixtures in weak interaction, the effective majoron-neutrino coupling constants, R-parity violating parameter, Lorentz-violating parameter, heavy neutrino mass) were set., Comment: 30 pages, 17 figures and 7 tables
Published: 2018
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41. Crystal Growth and Heat Capacity of Lithium Molybdate Tungstates

Author: Matskevich, N. I., Shlegel’, V. N., Grigorieva, V. D., Samoshkin, D. A., Stankus, S. V., Semerikova, A. N., Kuznetsov, V. A., and Novikov, A. Yu.
Published: 2022
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42. Radioassay of the materials for AMoRE-II experiment

Author: Agrawal, A., primary, Alenkov, V. V., additional, Aryal, P., additional, Bae, H., additional, Beyer, J., additional, Bhandari, B., additional, Boiko, R. S., additional, Boonin, K., additional, Buzanov, O., additional, Byeon, C. R., additional, Chanthima, N., additional, Cheoun, M. K., additional, Choe, J. S., additional, Choi, S., additional, Choudhury, S., additional, Chung, J. S., additional, Danevich, F. A., additional, Djamal, M., additional, Drung, D., additional, Enss, C., additional, Fleischmann, A., additional, Gangapshev, A. M., additional, Gastaldo, L., additional, Gavrilyuk, Y. M., additional, Gezhaev, A. M., additional, Gileva, O., additional, Grigorieva, V. D., additional, Gurentsov, V. I., additional, Ha, C., additional, Ha, D. H., additional, Ha, E. J., additional, Hwang, D. H., additional, Jeon, E. J., additional, Jeon, J. A., additional, Jo, H. S., additional, Kaewkhao, J., additional, Kang, C. S., additional, Kang, W. G., additional, Kazalov, V. V., additional, Kempf, S., additional, Khan, A., additional, Khan, S., additional, Kim, D. Y., additional, Kim, G. W., additional, Kim, H. B., additional, Kim, H. J., additional, Kim, H. L., additional, Kim, H. S., additional, Kim, M. B., additional, Kim, S. C., additional, Kim, S. K., additional, Kim, S. R., additional, Kim, W. T., additional, Kim, Y. D., additional, Kim, Y. H., additional, Kirdsiri, K., additional, Ko, Y. J., additional, Kobychev, V. V., additional, Kornoukhov, V., additional, Kuzminov, V. V., additional, Kwon, D. H., additional, Lee, C. H., additional, Lee, D. Y., additional, Lee, E. K., additional, Lee, H. J., additional, Lee, H. S., additional, Lee, J., additional, Lee, J. Y., additional, Lee, K. B., additional, Lee, M. H., additional, Lee, M. K., additional, Lee, S. W., additional, Lee, Y. C., additional, Leonard, D. S., additional, Lim, H. S., additional, Mailyan, B., additional, Makarov, E. P., additional, Nyanda, P., additional, Oh, Y., additional, Olsen, S. L., additional, Panasenko, S. I., additional, Park, H. K., additional, Park, H. S., additional, Park, K. S., additional, Park, S. Y., additional, Polischuk, O. G., additional, Prihtiadi, H., additional, Ra, S., additional, Ratkevich, S. S., additional, Rooh, G., additional, Sari, M. B., additional, Seo, J., additional, Seo, K. M., additional, Sharma, B., additional, Shin, K. A., additional, Shlegel, V. N., additional, Siyeon, K., additional, So, J., additional, Sokur, N. V., additional, Son, J. K., additional, Song, J. W., additional, Srisittipokakun, N., additional, Tretyak, V. I., additional, Wirawan, R., additional, Woo, K. R., additional, Yeon, H. J., additional, Yoon, Y. S., additional, and Yue, Q., additional
Published: 2024
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43. Investigation of 2$\beta$ Decay of $^{116}$Cd with the Help of Enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ Crystal Scintillators

Author: Polischuk, O. G., Barabash, A. S., Belli, P., Bernabei, R., Cappella, F., Caracciolo, V., Cerulli, R., Chernyak, D. M., Danevich, F. A., d'Angelo, S., Incicchitti, A., Kasperovych, D. V., Kobychev, V. V., Konovalov, S. I., Laubenstein, M., Mokina, V. M., Poda, D. V., Shlegel, V. N., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., and Vasiliev, Ya. V.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Double beta decay of $^{116}$Cd has been investigated with the help of radiopure enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillators in the experiment Aurora. The half-life of $^{116}$Cd relatively to the 2$\nu$2$\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd to the ground level of $^{116}$Sn is measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy as $T_{1/2}$ = [2.69 $\pm$ 0.02 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.14 (syst.)] $\times$ 10$^{19}$ yr. A new improved limit on the 0$\nu$2$\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn is set as $T_{1/2}\geq 2.4 \times 10^{23}$ yr at 90\% C.L., that corresponds to the effective Majorana neutrino mass limit in the range $\langle$$m_\nu$$\rangle$ $\le$ $(1.1-1.6)$ eV, depending on the nuclear matrix elements used in the estimations. New improved limits on other $2\beta$ processes in $^{116}$Cd (decays with majoron emission, transitions to excited levels of $^{116}$Sn) were set at the level of $T_{1/2}\geq 10^{21}-10^{22}$ yr., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2017
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44. GROWTH AND SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF Na2W2O7 SINGLE CRYSTALS DOPED WITH CERIUM AND CHROMIUM IONS

Author: Grigorieva, V. D., Rakhmanova, M. I., Kasimkin, P. V., and Shlegel, V. N.
Published: 2022
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45. Alpha backgrounds in the AMoRE-Pilot experiment

Author: Alenkov, V., Bae, H. W., Beyer, J., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choi, S. H., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A., Gastaldo, L., Gavriljuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A., Grigoryeva, V. D., Gurentsov, V., Ha, D. H., Ha, C., Ha, E. J., Hahn, I., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, S. J., Kang, W. G., Karki, S., Kazalov, V., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D.-Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, I., Kim, W. T., Kim, S. R., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuz’minov, V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. S., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. W., Lee, S. W., Leonard, D. S., Li, J., Li, Y., Limkitjaroenporn, P., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Oh, S. Y., Oh, Y. M., Gileva, O., Olsen, S., Pabitra, A., Panasenko, S., Pandey, I., Park, C. W., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Ratkevich, S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Shin, J. W., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., Sokur, N. V., Son, J.-K., Srisittipokakun, N., Toibaev, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.
Published: 2022
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46. Development of $^{100}$Mo-containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search

Author: Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Beeman, J. W., Bekker, T. B., Bellini, F., Benoît, A., Bergé, L., Bergmann, T., Billard, J., Boiko, R. S., Broniatowski, A., Brudanin, V., Camus, P., Capelli, S., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., Chernyak, D. M., de Combarieu, M., Coron, N., Danevich, F. A., Dafinei, I., De Jesus, M., Devoyon, L., Di Domizio, S., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Enss, C., Ferroni, F., Fleischmann, A., Foerster, N., Gascon, J., Gastaldo, L., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Hehn, L., Hervé, S., Humbert, V., Ivannikova, N. V., Ivanov, I. M., Jin, Y., Juillard, A., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Konovalov, S. I., Koskas, F., Kozlov, V., Kraus, H., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Laubenstein, M., Sueur, H. Le, Loidl, M., Magnier, P., Makarov, E. P., Mancuso, M., de Marcillac, P., Marnieros, S., Marrache-Kikuchi, C., Nagorny, S., Navick, X-F., Nikolaichuk, M. O., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Paul, B., Penichot, Y., Pessina, G., Piperno, G., Pirro, S., Plantevin, O., Poda, D. V., Queguiner, E., Redon, T., Rodrigues, M., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Scorza, S., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Strazzer, O., Tcherniakhovski, D., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Vasiliev, Ya. V., Velazquez, M., Vignati, M., Weber, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports on the development of a technology involving $^{100}$Mo-enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ($\sim$1~kg), high optical quality, radiopure $^{100}$Mo-containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2--0.4~kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the $Q$-value of the double-beta transition of $^{100}$Mo (3034~keV) is 4--6~keV FWHM. The rejection of the $\alpha$-induced dominant background above 2.6~MeV is better than 8$\sigma$. Less than 10~$\mu$Bq/kg activity of $^{232}$Th ($^{228}$Th) and $^{226}$Ra in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of $^{100}$Mo-enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only 10~kg$\times$d exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of $^{100}$Mo has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as $T_{1/2}$ = [6.90 $\pm$ 0.15(stat.) $\pm$ 0.37(syst.)] $\times$ 10$^{18}$~yr. Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of $^{100}$Mo., Comment: 25 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables; submitted to EPJC
Published: 2017
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47. Optimization of the first CUPID detector module

Author: Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone, III, 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., and Zucchelli, S.
Published: 2022
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48. Improvement of radiopurity level of enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ and ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillators by recrystallization

Author: Barabash, A. S., Belli, P., Bernabei, R., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cappella, F., Caracciolo, V., Cerulli, R., Danevich, F. A., Incicchitti, A., Kobychev, V. V., Konovalov, S. I., Laubenstein, M., Mokina, V. M., Polischuk, O. G., Safonova, O. E., Shlegel, V. N., Tretyak, V. I., Tupitsyna, I. A., Umatov, V. I., and Zhdankov, V. N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: As low as possible radioactive contamination of a detector plays a crucial role to improve sensitivity of a double beta decay experiment. The radioactive contamination of a sample of $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillator by thorium was reduced by a factor $\approx 10$, down to the level 0.01 mBq/kg ($^{228}$Th), by exploiting the recrystallization procedure. The total alpha activity of uranium and thorium daughters was reduced by a factor $\approx 3$, down to 1.6 mBq/kg. No change in the specific activity (the total $\alpha$ activity and $^{228}$Th) was observed in a sample of ZnWO$_4$ crystal produced by recrystallization after removing $\approx 0.4$ mm surface layer of the crystal., Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables
Published: 2016
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49. First test of an enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double-beta-decay searches

Author: Barabash, A. S., Danevich, F. A., Gimbal-Zofka, Y., Giuliani, A., Konovalov, S. I., Mancuso, M., de Marcillac, P., Marnieros, S., Novati, V., Pessina, G., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Shlegel, V. N., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., and Zolotarova, A. S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: For the first time, a cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator enriched in $^{116}$Cd has been succesfully tested as a scintillating bolometer. The measurement was performed above ground at a temperature of 18 mK. The crystal mass was 34.5 g and the enrichment level ~82 %. Despite a substantial pile-up effect due to above-ground operation, the detector demonstrated a high energy resolution (2-7 keV FWHM in 0.2-2.6 MeV $\gamma$ energy range), a powerful particle identification capability and a high level of internal radiopurity. These results prove that cadmium tungstate is an extremely promising detector material for a next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay bolometric experiment, like that proposed in the CUPID project (CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification).
Published: 2016
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50. Correction to: A Study on PbMoO4 Phonon‑Scintillation Detection with MMC Readouts for a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search

Author: Kim, H. L., So, J. H., Kim, Y. H., Kim, H. J., Nagorny, S. S., Kim, S. R., Kim, Y. D., Lee, M. H., and Shlegel, V. N.
Published: 2022
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