CUORE: A Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events
Abstract
CUORE is a proposed tightly packed array of 1000 TeO2 bolometers, each being a cube 5 cm on a side with a mass of 760 g. The array consists of 25 vertical towers, arranged in a square of 5 towers by 5 towers, each containing 10 layers of 4 crystals. The design of the detector is optimized for ultralow-background searches: for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te (33.8% abundance), cold dark matter, solar axions, and rare nuclear decays. A preliminary experiment involving 20 crystals 3x3x6 cm3 of 340 g has been completed, and a single CUORE tower is being constructed as a smaller scale experiment called CUORICINO. The expected performance and sensitivity, based on Monte Carlo simulations and extrapolations of present results, are reported.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0212053,
title = {CUORE: A Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events},
author = {C. Arnaboldi and F. T. Avignone and J. Beeman and M. Barucci and M. Balata and C. Brofferio and C. Bucci and S. Cebrian and R. J. Creswick and S. Capelli and L. Carbone and O. Cremonesi and A. de Ward and E. Fiorini and H. A. Farach and G. Frossati and A. Giuliani and D. Giugni and P. Gorla and E. E. Haller and I. G. Irastorza and R. J. McDonald and A. Morales and E. B. Norman and P. Negri and A. Nucciotti and M. Pedretti and C. Pobes and V. Palmieri and M. Pavan and G. Pessina and S. Pirro and E. Previtali and C. Rosenfeld and A. R. Smith and M. Sisti and G. Ventura and M. Vanzini and L. Zanotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0212053},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
39 pages, 12 figures, submitted to NIM