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Double Beta Decay Experiments with Thermal Detectors

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Abstract

Massive low temperature particle detectors and their possible impacts on searches for neutrinoless double beta decay (Oν-DBD) are presented and discussed. In particular, the experimental work of the Milano group is described. Special relevance is given to the present status of the search for Oν-DBD of 130Te and to the possible expansion of this experiment in the near future. The most recent results obtained by the Milano-Gran Sasso collaboration with a 20 bolometer array are presented. On the basis of these results, the construction of a 42 kg array consisting of 56 TeO2 bolometers (CUORICINO project), to extend the sensitivity of the present experiment, has been proposed. CUORICINO should represent also a feasibility test for a large array of 1000 bolometers (CUORE project) aiming at the search for neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Cold Dark Matter and Solar Axions with extremely high sensitivity.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Milano e Sezione di Milano dell'INFN, I-20133, Milan, Italy

    A. Alessandrello, C. Brofferio, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, A. Giuliani, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, M. Vanzini & L. Zanotti

  2. Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100, Assergi (AQ), Italy

    C. Bucci

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Alessandrello, A., Brofferio, C., Cremonesi, O. et al. Double Beta Decay Experiments with Thermal Detectors. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 51, 449–458 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017599832230

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