CUORE: The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events
Creators
- 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- 2. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- 3. Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como I-22100 (Italy)
- 4. Universita di Firenze, Florence I-50125 (Italy)
- 5. Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010, Assergi (Italy)
- 6. Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020, Legnaro (Italy)
- 7. Leiden University, 2300 RAQ, Leiden (Netherlands)
- 8. Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milan I-20126 (Italy)
Description
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) will be a large-scale, multi-purpose observatory that is planned for construction in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. Its primary focus will be on a search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 130Te. The source/detector will be composed of one thousand 5-cmx5-cmx5-cm single crystals of TeO2 all housed in a common dilution refrigerator. Attached to each crystal will be one or more neutron-transmutation-doped (NTD) germanium thermistors that will measure the small temperature rise produced in a crystal when radiation is absorbed. The high natural isotopic abundance of 130Te (33.8%) makes the use of isotopically enriched material unnecessary. In addition, the high Q-value for the double-beta decay of 130Te means that the peak in the summed electron energy spectrum expected from the neutrinoless mode will occur in an energy region of very little natural background. Once constructed, CUORE can also be used in searches for dark matter, solar axions, and other rare decay processes in nuclear physics
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1470267;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 610
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 978-979
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- International nuclear physics conference on nuclear physics in the 21st century
- Acronym
- INPC 2001
- Dates
- 30 Jul - 3 Aug 2001
- Place
- Berkeley, CA (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36062491
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AXIONS; BOLOMETERS; CRYOGENICS; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; ELECTRONS; ELEMENT ABUNDANCE; ENERGY SPECTRA; ITALY; MONOCRYSTALS; NEUTRONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; Q-VALUE; SENSITIVITY; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM 130; TELLURIUM OXIDES; THERMISTORS; UNDERGROUND
- Descriptors DEC
- ABUNDANCE; BARYONS; BETA DECAY; BETA-MINUS DECAY; BOSONS; CHALCOGENIDES; CRYSTALS; DECAY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY; EUROPE; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FERMIONS; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; HADRONS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LEPTONS; LEVELS; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEAR DECAY; NUCLEI; NUCLEONS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMIMETALS; SPECTRA; STABLE ISOTOPES; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM ISOTOPES; WESTERN EUROPE
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.