Speaker
Mr
Niccolo Moggi
(University of Bologna)
Description
The CUORE experiment, expected to start operations in early 2016, will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te and will be one of the most competitive neutrinoless double beta decay experiments in the near future.
Its demonstrator (CUORE-0) has reported in 2015 no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay and placed a lower bound on the decay half-life, T(0ν)1/2>2.7×10^24 yr at 90% C.L.
The CUORE projected sensitivity is 9.5×10^25 yr at the 90% confidence level, which corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass in the range of 50–130 meV.
I will discuss the status of the CUORE experiment and give a brief update on the background rejection techniques that may significantly improve the search sensitivity of bolometric detectors to fully explore the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy.
Primary author
Mr
Niccolo Moggi
(University of Bologna)
