The CUPID-0 detector hosted at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, is the first large array of enriched scintillating cryogenic detectors for the investigation of 82Se neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ). CUPID-0 aims at measuring a background index in the region of interest (RoI) for 0νββ at the level of 10−3 c/keV/kg/y, the lowest value ever measured using cryogenic detectors. This result can be achieved by a state of the art technology for background suppression and thorough protocols and procedures for detector preparation and construction. In this paper, the different phases of the detector design and construction will be presented, from the material selection (for the absorber production) to the new and innovative detector structure. The successful construction of the detector lead to promising detector performance which are here preliminarily discussed
@article{arxiv.1802.06562,
title = {CUPID-0: the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for 0\nu\beta\beta decay investigations},
author = {O. Azzolini and M. T. Barrera and J. W. Beeman and F. Bellini and M. Beretta and M. Biassoni and C. Brofferio and C. Bucci and L. Canonica and S. Capelli and L. Cardani and P. Carniti and N. Casali and L. Cassina and M. Clemenza and O. Cremonesi and A. Cruciani and A. D'Addabbo and I. Dafinei and S. Di Domizio and F. Ferroni and L. Gironi and A. Giuliani and P. Gorla and C. Gotti and G. Keppel and M. Martinez and S. Morganti and S. Nagorny and M. Nastasi and S. Nisi and C. Nones and D. Orlandi and L. Pagnanini and M. Pallavicini and V. Palmieri and L. Pattavina and M. Pavan and G. Pessina and V. Pettinacci and S. Pirro and S. Pozzi and E. Previtali and A. Puiu and F. Reindl and C. Rusconi and K. Schaeffner and C. Tomei and M. Vignati and A. Zolotarova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06562},
year = {2018}
}