학술논문

CUORE-0 detector: design, construction and operation
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Instrumentation. 11(07)
Subject
Nuclear and Plasma Physics
Particle and High Energy Physics
Physical Sciences
Calorimeters
Cryogenics
Double-beta decay detectors
physics.ins-det
nucl-ex
J.2
Engineering
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Physical sciences
Language
Abstract
The CUORE experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers arranged in 19 towers. CUORE-0, the first tower assembled according to the CUORE procedures, was built and commissioned at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, and took data from March 2013 to March 2015. In this paper we describe the design, construction and operation of the CUORE-0 experiment, with an emphasis on the improvements made over a predecessor experiment, Cuoricino. In particular, we demonstrate with CUORE-0 data that the design goals of CUORE are within reach.