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Lowering the Energy Threshold of the CUORE Experiment: Benefits in the Surface Alpha Events Reconstruction

Comparison Between Optimum Trigger and Derivative Trigger Performance in the Search for \(0 \nu \beta \beta\)

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CUORE is a tonne-scale cryogenic experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso that exploits bolometric technique to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of \(^{130}{\hbox {Te}}\). Thanks to its very low background and large mass, CUORE is also a powerful tool to study a broad class of phenomena, such as solar axions and WIMP scattering. The ability to conduct such sensitive searches crucially depends on the energy threshold, which has to be kept as low as possible. In this contribution, we show how the trigger algorithm affects the sensitivity to low-energy phenomena and the interpretation of the energy spectrum. In particular, we focus on the impact that the trigger algorithm has on the identification of the coincidence events among different crystals and, consequently, on the reconstruction of the background.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Genova, 16146, Genoa, Italy

    Alice Campani, S. Di Domizio & M. Pallavicini

  2. INFN – Sezione di Genova, 16146, Genoa, Italy

    Alice Campani, A. Caminata, S. Di Domizio & M. Pallavicini

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino, F. T. Avignone III, N. Chott, R. J. Creswick, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, J. Wilson & K. Wilson

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    K. Alfonso & H. Z. Huang

  5. INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020, Legnaro, Padova, Italy

    O. Azzolini, G. Keppel & C. Pira

  6. INFN – Sezione di Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy

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  10. INFN – Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy

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Campani, A., Adams, D.Q., Alduino, C. et al. Lowering the Energy Threshold of the CUORE Experiment: Benefits in the Surface Alpha Events Reconstruction. J Low Temp Phys 200, 321–330 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-020-02487-2

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