Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 2017 Oct 23
The first glimpse of data from the full array of a deeply chilled particle detector operating beneath a mountain in Italy sets the most precise limits yet on where scientists might find a theorized process to help explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.
This new result ... is based on two months of data collected from the full detector of the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics’ (INFN) Gran Sasso National Laboratories (LNGS) in Italy. CUORE means “heart” in Italian. ...
CUORE is considered one of the most promising efforts to determine whether tiny elementary particles called neutrinos, which interact only rarely with matter, are “Majorana particles” – identical to their own antiparticles. Most other particles are known to have antiparticles that have the same mass but a different charge, for example. CUORE could also help us home in on the exact masses of the three types, or “flavors,” of neutrinos – neutrinos have the unusual ability to morph into different forms. ...
Search for Neutrinoless β+EC Decay of 120Te with CUORE-0 - CUORE Collaboration
- arXiv.org > nucl-ex > arXiv:1710.07459 > 20 Oct 2017
