20–27 juil. 2011
Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Direct Dark Matter and Axion Detection with CUORE

21 juil. 2011, 15:15
15m
Berlioz (Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo)

Berlioz

Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo

Parallel session talk Astroparticle Physics Astroparticle Physics

Orateur

Mme Cecilia Maiano (University of Milano Bicocca and INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca)

Description

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Te-130 and other rare processes. CUORE is a bolometric detector composed of 988 TeO2 crystals, with the total mass of about 1 tonne. The large detector mass, low backgrounds, and the low energy threshold of a few keV make the experiment well suited for direct detection of galactic dark matter particles and solar axions. We discuss the development of a novel low-energy trigger that enables such searches, and present the preliminary results from a test run with four CUORE-like crystals at Gran Sasso National Laboratories in Italy.

Auteur principal

Prof. Yury Kolomensky (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

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