Further developments in the CUORICINO experiment

Year: 2006

Authors: Pirro S., Arnaboldi C., Artusa D.R., Avignone III F.T., Balata M., Bandac I., Barucci M., Beeman J.W., Bellini F., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Capelli S., Capozzi F., Carbone L., Cebrian S., Clemenza M., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., de Waard A., Dolinski M., Farach H.A., Fiorini E., Frossati G., Guardincerri E., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gutierrez T.D., Haller E.E., Maruyama R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Nucciotti A., Olivieri E., Pallavicini M., Palmieri V., Pasca E., Pavan M., Pedretti M., Pessina G., Previtali E., Quiter B., Risegari L., Rosenfeld C., Sangiorgio S., Sisti M., Smith A.R., Torres L., Ventura G.

Autors Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica dell\’Università di Milano-Bicocca, INFN, Sezione di Milano, I-20126 Milano, Italy; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, United States; Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi, L\’Aquila, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica dell\’Università di Firenze, Sezione di Firenze dell\’INFN, Firenze, I-50125, Italy; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Dipartimento di Fisica dell\’Università di Roma, Sezione di Roma 1 dell\’INFN, Roma, I-16146, Italy; Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Padova, Italy; Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Altas Energias, Universidàd de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; Kamerling Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RAQ Leiden, Netherlands; Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Dipartimento di Fisica dell\’Università di Genova, Sezione di Genova dell\’INFN, Genova, I-16146, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Matematica dell\’Università dell\’Insubria, Sezione di Milanodell\’INFN, Como, I-22100, Italy; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, United States

Abstract: We report the present results of the CUORICINO experiment, a cryogenic experiment on neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (DBD) of 130Te consisting of an array of 62 TeO2 crystals with a total active mass of 40.7 kg. The array is framed inside a dilution refrigerator, heavily shielded against environmental radioactivity and high-energy neutrons, and it is operated at a temperature of 8 mK in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. After several improvements the live time of the experiment is near 75%.

Journal/Review: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Volume: 559 (2)      Pages from: 352  to: 354

KeyWords: Cryogenics; Crystals; Neutrons; Particle detectors; Radioactivity; Refrigerators, Cryogenic detectors; Double beta decay; Double Beta Decay (DBD); High-energy neutrons, High energy physics
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.007

Citations: 5
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