Speaker
Description
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first cryogenic experiment searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay that has reached the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, consists of 988 TeO$_{2}$ crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of about 10 mK and, in March 2024, released the most recent result of the search for $0\nu\beta\beta$, corresponding to two tonne-year TeO$_{2}$ exposure. This is the most significant volume of data acquired with a solid state detector and the most sensitive measurement of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{130}$Te conducted. In this talk, we will describe the CUORE experiment, including the cryostat, the front-end electronics, the data acquisition system, and the data processing chain. Finally, we will present the current status of the CUORE search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ with the updated statistics of two tonne$\cdot$yr exposure, the CUORE background model, and the measurement of the $^{130}$Te $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life.
| Primary experiment | CUORE |
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