Madison Maino (Austin Community College): Publications

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Austin Community College

Undergraduate

Austin, Texas, United States of America

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The projected background for the CUORE experiment
with Cuore Collaboration, C. Alduino, Alfonso K., Dr Artusa, Fta Iii, O. Azzolini, Ti Banks, G. Bari, Jw Beeman, F. Bellini, G. Benato, A. Bersani, M. Biassoni, A. Branca, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, A. Camacho, A. Caminata, L. Canonica, Xg Cao, S. Capelli, L. Cappelli, L. Carbone, L. Cardani, P. Carniti, N. Casali, L. Cassina, D. Chiesa, N. Chott, M. Clemenza, S. Copello, C. Cosmelli, O. Cremonesi, Rj Creswick, Js Cushman, A. D'addabbo, I. Dafinei, Cj Davis, S. Dell'oro, Mm Deninno, Sd Domizio, Mld Vacri, A. Drobizhev, Dq Fang, M. Faverzani, G. Fernandes, E. Ferri, F. Ferroni, E. Fiorini, Ma Franceschi, Sj Freedman, Bk Fujikawa, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, L. Gladstone, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, Td Gutierrez, Ee Haller, K. Han, E. Hansen, Km Heeger, R. Hennings-Yeomans, Kp Hickerson, Hz Huang, R. Kadel, G. Keppel, Yg Kolomensky, A. Leder, C. Ligi, Ke Lim, Ma Yg, L. Marini, M. Martinez, Rh Maruyama, Y. Mei, N. Moggi, S. Morganti, Pj Mosteiro, T. Napolitano, M. Nastasi, C. Nones, Norman Eb, V. Novati, A. Nucciotti, T. O'donnell, Jl Ouellet, Ce Pagliarone, and M. Pallavicini

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events is designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers operating at temperatures around 10 mK. The experiment is currently being commissioned in Hall A of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The goal of CUORE is to reach a 90\% C.L. exclusion sensitivity on the \tect decay half-life of 9$\times$10$^{25}$ years after 5\,years of data taking. The main issue to be addressed to accomplish th…Read more
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events is designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers operating at temperatures around 10 mK. The experiment is currently being commissioned in Hall A of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The goal of CUORE is to reach a 90\% C.L. exclusion sensitivity on the \tect decay half-life of 9$\times$10$^{25}$ years after 5\,years of data taking. The main issue to be addressed to accomplish this aim is the rate of background events in the region of interest, which must not be higher than 10$^{-2}$\,counts/keV/kg/y. We developed a detailed Monte Carlo simulation, based on results from a campaign of material screening, radioassays, and bolometric measurements, to evaluate the expected background. This was used over the years to guide the construction strategies of the experiment and we use it here to project a background model for CUORE. In this paper we report the results of our study and our expectations for the background rate in the energy region where the peak signature of neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te is expected.
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Results from the CUORE-0 experiment
with L. Canonica, C. Alduino, Alfonso K., D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone, O. Azzolini, T. I. Banks, G. Bari, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini, A. Bersani, M. Biassoni, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, A. Caminata, X. G. Cao, S. Capelli, L. Cappelli, L. Carbone, L. Cardani, P. Carniti, N. Casali, L. Cassina, D. Chiesa, N. Chott, M. Clemenza, S. Copello, C. Cosmelli, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, J. S. Cushman, I. Dafinei, A. Dally, C. J. Davis, S. Dell'Oro, M. M. Deninno, S. Di Domizio, M. L. Di Vacri, A. Drobizhev, D. Q. Fang, M. Faverzani, G. Fernandes, E. Ferri, F. Ferroni, E. Fiorini, B. K. Fujikawa, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, L. Gladstone, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, T. D. Gutierrez, E. E. Haller, K. Han, E. Hansen, K. M. Heeger, R. Hennings-Yeomans, K. P. Hickerson, H. Z. Huang, R. Kadel, G. Keppel, G. Yu Kolomensky, K. E. Lim, X. Liu, and Y. G. Ma

The CUORE-0 experiment searched for neutrinoless double beta decay in130Te using an array of 52 tellurium dioxide crystals, operated as bolometers at a temperature of 10 mK. It took data in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory since March 2013 to March 2015. We present the results of a search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 9.8 kg-years130Te exposure that allowed us to set the most stringent limit to date on this half-life. The performance of the detector in terms of background and energy re…Read more
The CUORE-0 experiment searched for neutrinoless double beta decay in130Te using an array of 52 tellurium dioxide crystals, operated as bolometers at a temperature of 10 mK. It took data in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory since March 2013 to March 2015. We present the results of a search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 9.8 kg-years130Te exposure that allowed us to set the most stringent limit to date on this half-life. The performance of the detector in terms of background and energy resolution is also reported.