Study of Rare Nuclear Processes with CUORE
Abstract
TeO2 bolometers have been used for many years to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 130-Te. CUORE, a tonne-scale TeO2 detector array, recently published the most sensitive limit on the half-life, yr, which corresponds to an upper bound of ~meV on the effective Majorana mass of the neutrino. While it makes CUORE a world-leading experiment looking for neutrinoless double beta decay, it is not the only study that CUORE will contribute to in the field of nuclear and particle physics. As already done over the years with many small-scale experiments, CUORE will investigate both rare decays (such as the two-neutrino double beta decay of 130-Te and the hypothesized electron capture in 123-Te), and rare processes (e.g., dark matter and axion interactions). This paper describes some of the achievements of past experiments that used TeO2 bolometers, and perspectives for CUORE.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.05403,
title = {Study of Rare Nuclear Processes with CUORE},
author = {CUORE Collaboration and C. Alduino and K. Alfonso and F. T. Avignone and O. Azzolini and G. Bari and F. Bellini and G. Benato and A. Bersani and M. Biassoni and A. Branca and C. Brofferio and C. Bucci and A. Caminata and A. Campani and L. Canonica and X. G. Cao and S. Capelli and L. Cappelli and L. Cardani and P. Carniti and N. Casali and L. Cassina and D. Chiesa and N. Chott and M. Clemenza and S. Copello and C. Cosmelli and O. Cremonesi and R. J. Creswick and J. S. Cushman and A. D'Addabbo and D. D'Aguanno and I. Dafinei and C. J. Davis and S. Dell'Oro and M. M. Deninno and S. Di Domizio and M. L. Di Vacri and V. Dompè and A. Drobizhev and D. Q. Fang and M. Faverzani and E. Ferri and F. Ferroni and E. Fiorini and M. A. Franceschi and S. J. Freedman and B. K. Fujikawa and A. Giachero and L. Gironi and A. Giuliani and L. Gladstone and P. Gorla and C. Gotti and T. D. Gutierrez and K. Han and K. M. Heeger and R. Hennings-Yeomans and H. Z. Huang and G. Keppel and Yu. G. Kolomensky and A. Leder and C. Ligi and K. E. Lim and Y. G. Ma and L. Marini and M. Martinez and R. H. Maruyama and Y. Mei and N. Moggi and S. Morganti and S. S. Nagorny and T. Napolitano and M. Nastasi and C. Nones and E. B. Norman and V. Novati and A. Nucciotti and I. Nutini and T. O'Donnell and J. L. Ouellet and C. E. Pagliarone and M. Pallavicini and V. Palmieri and L. Pattavina and M. Pavan and G. Pessina and C. Pira and S. Pirro and S. Pozzi and E. Previtali and F. Reindl and C. Rosenfeld and C. Rusconi and M. Sakai and S. Sangiorgio and D. Santone and B. Schmidt and J. Schmidt and N. D. Scielzo and V. Singh and M. Sisti and L. Taffarello and F. Terranova and C. Tomei and M. Vignati and S. L. Wagaarachchi and B. S. Wang and H. W. Wang and B. Welliver and J. Wilson and K. Wilson and L. A. Winslow and T. Wise and L. Zanotti and G. Q. Zhang and S. Zimmermann and S. Zucchelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05403},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
36 pages, 13 figures, sumbitted to IJMPA Special Issue "Results and Developments in the investigation of rare nuclear decays and processes"