Speaker
Thomas Banks
(UC Berkeley)
Description
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an upcoming experiment whose primary goal is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0nuBB) in Te-130. The detector will consist of 988 TeO2 crystal bolometers arranged into 19 towers and cooled to 10 mK inside a custom-built cryostat at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), Italy, which provides the low-background environment necessary for high-sensitivity searches of this kind. The first tower produced by the CUORE detector assembly line, CUORE-0, is currently taking data in an existing cryostat at LNGS while the 19 CUORE towers and the new experimental facility are being prepared. I will review the basics of the bolometric technique and the physics goals and status of CUORE-0 and CUORE.
Author
Thomas Banks
(UC Berkeley)
