Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events
About Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) – also cuore (Italian for 'heart'; ) – is a particle physics experiment located underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Assergi, Italy. CUORE was designed primarily as a search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te, a process that has never been observed. It uses tellurium dioxide (TeO2) crystals as both the source of the decay and as bolometers to detect the resulting electrons. CUORE searches for the characteristic signal of neutrinoless double beta decay, a small peak in the observed energy spectrum around the known decay energy; for 130Te, this is Q = 2527.518 ± 0.013 keV. CUORE can also search for signals from dark matter candidates, such as axions and WIMPs.
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This is the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, also known as Cura, which is heart in the Italian language. It's a particle physics experiment. It's underground and it is trying to basically work out why it is that the universe isn't the way it is. We are missing a lot of mass in the universe.
from 582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 at 00:16:41 · read transcript
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