2016-04-19 CUORE-0 detector: design, construction and operation

Author: 

C. Alduino et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Journal: 
Journal of Instrumentation
Year: 
2016
Volume: 
11
Page: 
P07009
DOI: 
10.1088/1748-0221/11/07/P07009
arXiv: 
1604.05465
Title: 

CUORE-0 detector: design, construction and operation

Abstract (for collaboration papers): 

The CUORE experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers arranged in 19 towers. CUORE-0, the first tower assembled according to the CUORE procedures, was built and commissioned at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, and took data from March 2013 to March 2015. In this paper we describe the design, construction and operation of the CUORE-0 experiment, with an emphasis on the improvements made over a predecessor experiment, Cuoricino. In particular, we demonstrate with CUORE-0 data that the design goals of CUORE are within reach.