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physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Innovating Bolometers' Mounting: A Gravity-Based Approach

The CUPID Collaboration, K. Alfonso, A. Armatol +190

Cryogenic calorimeters, also known as bolometers, are among the leading technologies for searching for rare events. The CUPID experiment is exploiting this technology to deploy a t…

physics.ins-det2025★ 18 cited

CUPID, the CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification

The CUPID Collaboration, K. Alfonso, A. Armatol +190

CUPID, the CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification, is a next-generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay () and other rare events using enriched Li…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Development of MMC-based lithium molybdate cryogenic calorimeters for AMoRE-II

A. Agrawal, V. V. Alenkov, P. Aryal +105

The AMoRE collaboration searches for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo using molybdate scintillating crystals via low temperature thermal calorimetric detection. The ear…

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

Projected background and sensitivity of AMoRE-II

A. Agrawal, V. V. Alenkov, P. Aryal +103

AMoRE-II aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay with an array of 423 LiMoO crystals operating in the cryogenic system as the main phase of the Advanced M…

physics.ins-det2023★ 9 cited

LiMoO Scintillating Bolometers for Rare-Event Search Experiments

I. C. Bandac, A. S. Barabash, L. Bergé +35

We report on the development of scintillating bolometers based on lithium molybdate crystals containing molybdenum depleted in the double- active isotope Mo (Li$^{10…

physics.ins-det2023★ 12 cited

A first test of CUPID prototypal light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a pulse-tube cryostat

CUPID collaboration, K. Alfonso, A. Armatol +176

CUPID is a next-generation bolometric experiment aiming at searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with ~250 kg of isotopic mass of Mo. It will operate at 10 mK…

physics.ins-det2023★ 11 cited

Twelve-crystal prototype of LiMoO scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments

CUPID, CROSS collaborations, : +182

An array of twelve 0.28 kg lithium molybdate (LMO) low-temperature bolometers equipped with 16 bolometric Ge light detectors, aiming at optimization of detector structure for CROSS…

physics.ins-det2022★ 27 cited

Optical, luminescence, and scintillation properties of advanced ZnWO crystal scintillators

P. Belli, R. Bernabei, Yu. A. Borovlev +12

Zinc tungstate (ZnWO) crystal scintillators are promising detection material for the experiments searching for double beta decay, dark matter, and investigating rare alpha deca…

physics.ins-det2022

Optimization of the first CUPID detector module

CUPID collaboration, A. Armatol, C. Augier +175

CUPID will be a next generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double decay, whose discovery would establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Based on the experi…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Alpha backgrounds in the AMoRE-Pilot experiment

V. Alenkov, H. W. Bae, J. Beyer +102

The Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE)-Pilot experiment is an initial phase of the AMoRE search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo, with the purpose of…

physics.ins-det2020★ 2 cited

A CUPID LiMoO scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility

The CUPID Interest Group, A. Armatol, E. Armengaud +178

A scintillating bolometer based on a large cubic LiMoO crystal (45 mm side) and a Ge wafer (scintillation detector) has been operated in the CROSS cryogenic facil…

physics.ins-det2020★ 2 cited

Characterization of cubic LiMoO crystals for the CUPID experiment

A. Armatol, E. Armengaud, W. Armstrong +169

The CUPID Collaboration is designing a tonne-scale, background-free detector to search for double beta decay with sufficient sensitivity to fully explore the parameter space corres…

physics.ins-det2020★ 24 cited

Novel technique for the study of pile-up events in cryogenic bolometers

A. Armatol, E. Armengaud, W. Armstrong +166

Precise characterization of detector time resolution is of crucial importance for next-generation cryogenic-bolometer experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, such…

physics.ins-det2019★ 13 cited

Na-based crystal scintillators for next-generation rare event searches

S. Nagorny, C. Rusconi, S. Sorbino +9

The growing interest in clarifying the controversial situation in the Dark Matter sector has driven the experimental efforts towards new ways to investigate the long-standing DAMA/…

physics.ins-det2019★ 116 cited

The CUPID-Mo experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay: performance and prospects

E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +86

CUPID-Mo is a bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay () of Mo. In this article, we detail the CUPID-Mo detector concept, assembly, install…

physics.ins-det2019

Production and characterization of a PbMoO cryogenic detector from archaeological Pb

L. Pattavina, S. Nagorny, S. Nisi +7

We operated a PbMoO scintillating cryogenic detector of 570 g, produced with archaeological lead. This compound features excellent low temperature characteristics in terms of l…

physics.ins-det2017★ 133 cited

Development of Mo-containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search

E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +99

This paper reports on the development of a technology involving Mo-enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolomet…

physics.ins-det2016★ 50 cited

Improvement of radiopurity level of enriched CdWO and ZnWO crystal scintillators by recrystallization

A. S. Barabash, P. Belli, R. Bernabei +17

As low as possible radioactive contamination of a detector plays a crucial role to improve sensitivity of a double beta decay experiment. The radioactive contamination of a sample…

physics.ins-det2016★ 17 cited

First test of an enriched CdWO scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double-beta-decay searches

A. S. Barabash, F. A. Danevich, Y. Gimbal-Zofka +13

For the first time, a cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator enriched in Cd has been succesfully tested as a scintillating bolometer. The measurement was performed above gr…

physics.ins-det2015★ 1 cited

Proceedings of the third French-Ukrainian workshop on the instrumentation developments for HEP

F. Alessio, S. Ya. Barsuk, L. Berge +70

The reports collected in these proceedings have been presented in the third French-Ukrainian workshop on the instrumentation developments for high-energy physics held at LAL, Orsay…

physics.ins-det2015★ 9 cited

Scintillating bolometers based on ZnMoO and ZnMoO crystals to search for 02 decay of Mo (LUMINEU project): first tests at the Modane Underground Laboratory

D. V. Poda, E. Armengaud, Q. Arnaud +90

The technology of scintillating bolometers based on zinc molybdate (ZnMoO) crystals is under development within the LUMINEU project to search for 02 decay of Mo w…

physics.ins-det2014★ 3 cited

Aboveground test of an advanced LiMoO scintillating bolometer to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo

T. B. Bekker, N. Coron, F. A. Danevich +14

Large lithium molybdate (LiMoO) crystal boules were produced by using the low thermal gradient Czochralski growth technique from deeply purified molybdenum. A small sample…

physics.ins-det2014★ 53 cited

Enriched ZnMoO scintillating bolometers to search for decay of Mo with the LUMINEU experiment

A. S. Barabash, D. M. Chernyak, F. A. Danevich +16

The LUMINEU project aims at performing a demonstrator underground experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of the isotope Mo embedded in zinc molybdate (…

physics.ins-det2013★ 21 cited

Purification of molybdenum oxide, growth and characterization of medium size zinc molybdate crystals for the LUMINEU program

V. N. Shlegel, L. Berge, R. S. Boiko +45

The LUMINEU program aims at performing a pilot experiment on neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo using radiopure ZnMoO4 crystals operated as scintillating bolometers. Growth of…