Speaker
Mrs
Maria Martinez
(University of Rome - La Sapienza)
Description
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a ton-scale double beta decay experiment based on TeO2 cryogenic bolometers that is currently in the last construction stage at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). Its primary goal is to observe neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te, with a projected sensitivity reaching the inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass. Furthermore, thanks to the ultra-low background and large projected exposure, CUORE could also be suitable to other rare event searches, as the detection of solar axions or direct detection of dark matter. CUORE-0, a single-tower CUORE prototype consisting of 52 TeO2 bolometers and recently concluded, has served as a proof-of-concept of the CUORE technology.
In this talk I will present the final results from CUORE-0 neutrinoless double beta decay search with a 9.8 kg·yr exposure of 130Te,
and discuss the status and the physics potential of CUORE on different rare event searches.
Primary author
Mrs
Maria Martinez
(University of Rome - La Sapienza)
