Conveners
Rare Events: Dark Matter
- Florian Reindl (Vienna University of Technology (AT))
Rare Events: Neutrino
- Manfred Jeitler (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
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...
The search for neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay is considered the most promising method to prove the Majorana nature of neutrinos, and its discovery would provide insight on the mass hierarchy and on the absolute mass scale of the neutrino. The discovery of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay would inform theories predicting the observed matter anti-matter asymmetry of the Universe being a...
We present the latest developments of the LIME underground data taking campaign at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The LIME detector is the largest 50 L prototype of the CYGNO/INITIUM project, whose aim is to build a large gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with optical readout using a He:CF4 gas mixture for directional Dark Matter spin-dependent and spin-independent searches....
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) has among its primary goals the determination of the neutrino mass ordering and the CP-violating phase in the PMNS mixing matrix.
An important component of the DUNE Near Detector complex is the System for On-Axis Neutrino Detection (SAND), which includes GRAIN, a novel Liquid Argon (LAr) detector designed to image neutrino interactions using...
The RES-NOVA project detects cosmic neutrinos (e.g., Sun, Supernovae) via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) using archaeological Pb-based cryogenic detectors. The high CEνNS cross-section and ultra-high radiopurity of archaeological Pb enable a highly sensitive, cm-scale observatory equally sensitive to all neutrino flavors. In its first phase, RES-NOVA plans to operate a...
Gravitational waves are distortions of spacetime generated by extremely violent astrophysical events, as predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. In 2015, groundbreaking technologies in gravitational wave detectors (GW) opened a new window for observing the universe, marking the beginning of the GW era. Building on the success of the second-generation detectors, Advanced...
