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CUORE Opens the Door to Tonne-scale Cryogenics Experiments
CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino +206
The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparab…
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) radioactivity and cleanliness control programs
D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof, D. Yu. Akimov +387
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a second-generation direct dark matter experiment with spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering sensitivity above cm for a WIMP mass…
First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via Decay of Te
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +162
The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advanc…
CUORE Sensitivity to Decay
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +128
We report a study of the CUORE sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta () decay. We used a Bayesian analysis based on a toy Monte Carlo (MC) approach to extract the exclusion…
The projected background for the CUORE experiment
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +129
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers operating at te…
The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at LNGS
A. D'Addabbo, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +122
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a 1-ton scale bolometric experiment devoted to the search of the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0ν\b{eta}\b{eta})…
Measurement of the Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay Half-life of Te with the CUORE-0 Experiment
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +123
We report on the measurement of the two-neutrino double beta decay half-life of Te with the CUORE-0 detector. From an exposure of 33.4 kgy of TeO, the half-life…
CUORE-0 detector: design, construction and operation
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +151
The CUORE experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Te with an array of 988 TeO bolometers arranged in 19 towers. CUORE-0, the first tower assembled…
Analysis Techniques for the Evaluation of the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Lifetime in Te with CUORE-0
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +118
We describe in detail the methods used to obtain the lower bound on the lifetime of neutrinoless double-beta () decay in Te and the associated limit on the effective…
Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Te with CUORE-0
K. Alfonso, D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone +115
We report the results of a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in a 9.8~kgyr exposure of Te using a bolometric detector array, CUORE-0. The characteristic dete…
CUORE and beyond: bolometric techniques to explore inverted neutrino mass hierarchy
D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone, O. Azzolini +117
The CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Te. With 741 kg of TeO crystals and an excell…
Exploring the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the Inverted Neutrino Hierarchy with Bolometric Detectors
D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone, O. Azzolini +116
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0nubb) is one of the most sensitive probes for physics beyond the Standard Model, providing unique information on the nature of neutrinos. In this p…
Initial performance of the CUORE-0 experiment
CUORE Collaboration, D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone +110
CUORE-0 is a cryogenic detector that uses an array of tellurium dioxide bolometers to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of ^{130}Te. We present the first data analysis with…
Measurements of Fission Products from the Fukushima Daiichi Incident in San Francisco Bay Area Air Filters, Automobile Filters, Rainwater, and Food
A. R. Smith, K. J. Thomas, E. B. Norman +5
A variety of environmental media were analyzed for fallout radionuclides resulting from the Fukushima nuclear accident by the Low Background Facility (LBF) at the Lawrence Berkeley…
Search for 14.4 keV solar axions from M1 transition of Fe-57 with CUORE crystals
The Cuore Collaboration, F. Alessandria, R. Ardito +112
We report the results of a search for axions from the 14.4 keV M1 transition from Fe-57 in the core of the sun using the axio-electric effect in TeO2 bolometers. The detectors are…
Radio-assay of Titanium samples for the LUX Experiment
D. S. Akerib, X. Bai, S. Bedikian +63
We report on the screening of samples of titanium metal for their radio-purity. The screening process described in this work led to the selection of materials used in the construct…
CUORE crystal validation runs: results on radioactive contamination and extrapolation to CUORE background
F. Alessandria, E. Andreotti, R. Ardito +116
The CUORE Crystal Validation Runs (CCVRs) have been carried out since the end of 2008 at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories, in order to test the performances and the radiopurity…
Sensitivity and Discovery Potential of CUORE to Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
F. Alessandria, R. Ardito, D. R. Artusa +118
We present a study of the sensitivity and discovery potential of CUORE, a bolometric double-beta decay experiment under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in I…
Double-beta decay of Te to the first 0 excited state of Xe with CUORICINO
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +63
The CUORICINO experiment was an array of 62 TeO single-crystal bolometers with a total Te mass of kg. The experiment finished in 2008 after more than 3 years…
130Te Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with CUORICINO
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +63
We report the final result of the CUORICINO experiment. Operated between 2003 and 2008, with a total exposure of 19.75 kg y of 130Te, CUORICINO was able to set a lower bound on the…
Search for beta plus/EC double beta decay of 120Te
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +63
We present a search for beta plus/EC double beta decay of 120Te performed with the CUORICINO experiment, an array of TeO2 cryogenic bolometers. After collecting 0.0573 kg y of 120T…
Measurements of proton-induced radionuclide production cross sections to evaluate cosmic-ray activation of tellurium
A. F. Barghouty, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli +11
We have measured a large number of proton-induced radionuclide production cross sections from tellurium targets of natural isotopic composition at incident energies of 0.80, 1.4, a…
Muon-induced backgrounds in the CUORICINO experiment
E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone +68
To better understand the contribution of cosmic ray muons to the CUORICINO background, 10 plastic scintillator detectors were installed at the CUORICINO site and operated during th…
An array of low-background He proportional counters for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
J. F. Amsbaugh, J. M. Anaya, J. Banar +71
An array of Neutral-Current Detectors (NCDs) has been built in order to make a unique measurement of the total active flux of solar neutrinos in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (S…