Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar: Reina Maruyama, Yale University, “Results from the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with CUORE-0”

Thursday Apr 16, 2015, 5:00 PM → 7:00 PM UTC

WLC 108

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers and a combined mass of 206 kg of 130Te. The discovery of this decay would demonstrate lepton number violation, establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos, and constrain the effective Majorana neutrino mass. CUORE-0, the first element of the CUORE detector array, was commissioned at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso as a standalone experiment and has been taking data since March 2013. This talk will report the first results of a search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 9.8 kg-years of 130Te exposure collected between March 2013 and February 2015, and discuss the implications for the upcoming CUORE experiment.

Maruyama_NPA_Seminar_4162015.docx