Speaker
Maria Martinez
( Universita di Roma - la sapienza )
Summary
CUORE experiment aims to observe neutrinoless double beta decay with a projected sensitivity
reaching the inverted hierarchy scale, but to completely explore this region it is
mandatory to increase the source mass and a major reduction in background. The CUPID
project pursues this goal through several strategies, one of them being the rejection of alpha
background by double readout (light and heat) on a scintillating crystal. After a great
effort of the LUCIFER collaboration, the first array of Zn82Se bolometers (CUPID-0), is
starting construction at the LNGS.
I will present results in terms of background and detector performances of three of the
CUPID-0 bolometers and review the status of the experiment and its physics potential.
