Speaker
Vivek Sharma
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$) is a hypothesized lepton number violating process, the discovery of which would lead to a greater insight into the nature of neutrino mass. CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is a bolometric search for $0\nu \beta \beta$ in $^{130}$Te. The experiment employs 988 TeO$_2$ crystals as both the possible sources and detectors of this decay. CUORE began data taking at ~10mK in 2017, amassing over 2.5 tonne-years of TeO$_2$ exposure. This talk will show the latest results from CUORE for $0\nu \beta \beta$ with two tonne-years of exposure. The progress towards the upgrade to CUORE, called CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle Identification), will also be presented.
Primary author
Vivek Sharma
(University of Pittsburgh)
