Speaker
Lorenzo Pagnanini
(GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute)
Description
CUPID-0 is the first large array of enriched scintillating ZnSe cryogenic calorimeters implementing active particle identification. The detector consists of an array of 24 ZnSe crystals enriched in $^{82}$Se and two natural ZnSe crystals for a total mass of 10.5 kg installed in a dilution refrigerator hosted at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.
The heat-light readout exploited in CUPID-0 provides a unique tool for $\alpha$-particle discrimination and allows to suppress the background in the region of interest to an unprecedented level for a bolometric experiment. We will report the first results of the search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in $^{82}$Se and a preliminary background reconstruction.
| Author's Name | Lorenzo Pagnanini on behalf of the CUPID-0 collaboration |
|---|---|
| Author's Institute | Università Milano Bicocca and INFN Sezione Milano Bicocca |
| Author's e-mail | lorenzo.pagnanini@lngs.infn.it |
| Abstract Title | First result on the neutrinoless double beta decay of Se-82 with CUPID-0 |
| Subject | Neutrinos |
Primary author
Lorenzo Pagnanini
(GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute)
