First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via 0 nu ss ss Decay of Te-130
Year: 2018
Authors: Alduino C., Alessandria F., Alfonso K., Andreotti E., Arnaboldi C., Avignone FT., Azzolini O., Balata M., Bandac I., Banks TI., Bari G., Barucci M., Beeman JW., Bellini F., Benato G., Bersani A., Biare D., Biassoni M., Bragazzi F., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bryant A., Buccheri A., Bucci C., Bulfon C., Camacho A., Caminata A., Canonica L., Cao XG., Capelli S., Capodiferro M., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Cariello M., Carniti P., Carrettoni M., Casali N., Cassina L., Cereseto R., Ceruti G., Chiarini A., Chiesa D., Chott N., Clemenza M., Conventi D., Copello S., Cosmelli C., Cremonesi O., Crescentini C., Creswick RJ., Cushman JS., D’Addabbo A., D’Aguanno D., Dafinei I., Datskov V., Davis CJ., Del Corso F., Dell’Oro S., Deninno MM., Di Domizio S., Di Vacri ML., Di Paolo L., Drobizhev A., Ejzak L., Faccini R., Fang DQ., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferroni F., Fiorini E., Franceschi MA., Freedman SJ., Fujikawa BK., Gaigher R., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gladstone L., Goett J., Gorla P., Gotti C., Guandalini C., Guerzoni M., Gutierrez TD., Haller EE., Han K., Hansen EV., Heeger KM., Hennings-Yeomans R., Hickerson KP., Huang HZ., Iannone M., Ioannucci L., Kadel R., Keppel G., Kogler L., Kolomensky YG., Leder A., Ligi C., Lim KE., Liu X., Ma YG., Maiano C., Maino M., Marini L., Martinez M., Amaya CM., Maruyama RH., Mei Y., Moggi N., Morganti S., Mosteiro PJ., Nagorny SS., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman EB., Novati V., Nucciotti A., Nutini I., O’Donnell T., Olcese M., Olivieri E., Orio F., Orlandi D., Ouellet JL., Pagliarone CE., Pallavicini M., Palmieri V., Pattavina L., Pavan M., Pedretti M., Pedrotta R., Pelosi A., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Piperno G., Pira C., Pirro S., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Reindl F., Rimondi F., Risegari L., Rosenfeld C., Rossi C., Rusconi C., Sakai M., Sala E., Salvioni C., Sangiorgio S., Santone D., Schaeffer D., Schmidt B., Schmidt J., Scielzo ND., Singh V., Sisti M., Smith AR., Stivanello F., Taffarello L., Tatananni L., Tenconi M., Terranova F., Tessaro M., Tomei C., Ventura G., Vignati M., Wagaarachchi SL., Wallig J., Wang BS., Wang HW., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow LA., Wise T., Zanotti L., Zarra C., Zhang GQ., Zhu BX., Zimmermann S., Zucchelli S.
Autors Affiliation: Univ South Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy; Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA; Univ Insubria, Dipartimento Fis & Matemat, I-22100 Como, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milan, Italy; Univ Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento Fis, I-20126 Milan, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, I-67100 Asser gi, Laquila, Italy; Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Nucl Sci Div, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy; Univ Firenze, Dipartimento Fis, I-50125 Florence, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy; Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Mat Sci Div, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Sapienza Univ Roma, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy; MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Appl Phys, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China; Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy; Yale Univ, Dept Phys, Wright Lab, New Haven, CT 06520 USA; Univ Cassino & Lazio Meridionale, Dipartimento Ingn Civile & Meccan, I-03043 Cassino, Italy; Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Ctr Neutrino Phys, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Gran Sasso Sci Inst, I-67100 Laquila, Italy; Univ Aquila, Dipartimento Sci Fis & Chim, I-67100 Laquila, Italy; Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, 1150 Univ Ave, Madison, WI 53706 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy; Univ Paris Saclay, CNRS IN2P3, Univ Paris Sud, CSNSM, F-91405 Orsay, France; Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, Phys Dept, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA; Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, INPAC, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China; Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China; Shanghai Lab Particle Phys & Cosmol, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China; Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Phys Div, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Univ Zaragoza, Lab Fis Nucl & Astroparticulas, Zaragoza 50009, Spain; Alma Mater Studiorum Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-40127 Bologna, Italy; CEA Saclay, Serv Phys Particules, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France; Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA; Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Nucl Engn, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Engn Div, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Univ Coll Leuven Limburg, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; INO CNR, I-50125 Florence 50125, Italy; Johns Hopkins Univ, Appl Phys Lab, Baltimore, MD 20723 USA; Res Sq, Durham, NC 27701 USA; Los Alamos Natl Lab, Phys Div, P-23, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA; Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA; ESS, S-22592 Lund, Sweden; ITER Org, F-13067 St Paul Les Durance, France; LNE CNAM, Lab Commun Metrol, F-93210 La Plaine St Denis, France; Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany; ABB Corp Res Ctr, S-72226 Vasteras, Sweden; CryoVac GmbH & Co KG, D-53842 Troisdorf, Germany; Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.
Abstract: The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advancement in this technology, and in this work we apply it for the first time to a high-sensitivity search for a lepton-number-violating process: Te-130 neutrinoless double-beta decay. Examining a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3 kg yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of (7.7 +/- 0.5) keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of (0.014 +/- 0.002) counts/(keV kg yr), we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Including systematic uncertainties, we place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T-1/2(0 nu) (Te-130) > 1.3 x 10(25) yr (90% C.L.); the median statistical sensitivity of this search is 7.0 x 10(24) yr. Combining this result with those of two earlier experiments, Cuoricino and CUORE-0, we find T-1/2(0 nu) (Te-130) > 1.5 x 10(25) yr (90% C.L.), which is the most stringent limit to date on this decay. Interpreting this result as a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass, we find m(ss ss) < (110 - 520) meV, where the range reflects the nuclear matrix element estimates employed. Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume: 120 (13) Pages from: 132501-1 to: 132501-8
More Information: The CUORE Collaboration thanks the directors and staff of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and our technical staff for their valuable contribution to building and operating the detector. We thank Danielle Speller for contributions to detector calibration, data analysis, and discussion of the manuscript. We thank Giorgio Frossati for his crucial support in the commissioning of the dilution unit. This work was supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); the National Science Foundation under Grants No. NSF-PHY-0605119, No. NSF-PHY-0500337, No. NSF-PHY-0855314, No. NSF-PHY-0902171, No. NSF-PHY-0969852, No. NSF-PHY-1307204, and No. NSF-PHY-1404205; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and Yale University. This material is also based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contracts No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and No. DE-AC52-07NA27344; and by the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contracts No. DE-FG02-08ER41551, No. DE-FG03-00ER41138, No. DE-SC0011091, and No. DE-SC0012654. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).KeyWords: Image segmentation; Neutrons, Effective energy resolution; Lepton number violations; Majorana neutrino mass; Neutrinoless double-beta decays; Nuclear matrix elements; Region of interest; Statistical sensitivity; Systematic uncertainties, Tellurium compoundDOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.132501Citations: 247data from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) are update at: 2024-10-27References taken from IsiWeb of Knowledge: (subscribers only)Connecting to view paper tab on IsiWeb: Click hereConnecting to view citations from IsiWeb: Click here