Published June 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

CUORE/CUORICINO: Double Beta Decay with low temperature detectors

Creators

  • 1. Universita di Milano Bicocca e sez. INFN di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano (Italy)

Description

CUORICINO is an array of 62 TeO2 bolometers designed to search for the ββ(0ν) of 130Te. With a total mass of 40.7 kg of TeO2, corresponding to about 11 kg of 130Te, CUORICINO has collected up to now a total statistics of 8.38 kg(130Te) y. No evidence for the 2530 keV peak that should be produced by ββ(0ν) events is found. The upper limit on the half life 2.4x1024 years at 90% C.L. is converted into a lower bound on the neutrino effective Majorana mass of 0.18-0.9 eV. CUORE, a one ton scale experiment based on the CUORICINO technology and intended to push Majorana mass sensitivity for 130Te ββ(0ν) toward the inverted hierarchy region, is here discussed

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.02.007;
PII
S0920-5632(07)00112-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
168
Journal Page Range
p. 60-62
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
Neutrino oscillation workshop
Dates
9-15 Sep 2006
Place
Conca Specchiulla, Otranto (Italy)

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.