2024-05-05 + With or without ν? Hunting for the seed of the matter-antimatter asymmetry
With or without ν? Hunting for the seed of the matter-antimatter
asymmetry
The matter-antimatter asymmetry underlines the incompleteness of the current understanding of particle physics. Neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay may help explain this asymmetry, while unveiling the Majorana nature of the neutrino. The CUORE experiment searches for 0νββ decay of 130Te using a tonne-scale cryogenic calorimeter operated at milli-kelvin temperatures. We report no evidence for 0νββ decay and place a lower limit on the half-life of T1/2 > 3.8 × 1025 years (90% C.I.) with over 2 tonne⋅year TeO2 exposure. The tools and techniques developed for this result and the 5 year stable operation of nearly 1000 detectors demonstrate the infrastructure for a next-generation experiment capable of searching for 0νββ decay across multiple isotopes.