scholarly journals Development of Cryogenic Detectors for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches with CUORE and CUPID

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1606
Author(s):  
Mattia Beretta ◽  
Lorenzo Pagnanini
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Cryogenic Detectors ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Signal Peak ◽  
Expected Signal ◽  
Suitable Process

Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay is a top priority in particle and astroparticle physics, being the most sensitive test of lepton number violation and the only suitable process to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos. In order to increase the experimental sensitivity for this particular search, ton-scale detectors operated at nearly zero-background conditions with a low keV energy resolution at the expected signal peak are required. In this scenario, cryogenic detectors have been proven effective in addressing many of these issues simultaneously. After long technical developments, the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment established the possibility to operate large-scale detectors based on this technology. Parallel studies pointed out that scintillating cryogenic detectors represent a suitable upgrade for the CUORE design, directed towards higher sensitivities. In this work, we review the recent development of cryogenic detectors, starting from the state-of-the-art and outlying the path toward next-generation experiments.

scholarly journals Development of Cryogenic Detectors for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Beretta ◽  
Lorenzo Pagnanini
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Cryogenic Detectors ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Status ◽  
Suitable Process

Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay is a top priority in particle and astroparticle physics, being the most sensitive test of lepton number violation and the only suitable process to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos. In order to increase the experimental sensitivity for this particular search, ton-scale detectors operated at nearly zero-background conditions with a few keV energy resolution are required. In this scenario, cryogenic detectors have proven effective in addressing many of these issues simultaneously. After long technical developments, the CUORE experiment established the possibility to operate large scale detectors based on this technology. Parallel studies pointed out that scintillating cryogenic detectors represent a suitable upgrade for the CUORE design, directed towards higher sensitivities. In this work, we review the recent development of cryogenic detectors, starting from the status of the art and outlying the path toward next-generation experiments.

scholarly journals Lepton number violation and the baryon asymmetry of the universe

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (17) ◽  
pp. 1530045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Harz ◽  
Wei-Chih Huang ◽  
Heinrich Päs
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Baryon Asymmetry ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Low Energies ◽  
Tight Connection ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Lepton Number Violating

Neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton number violating collider processes and the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) are intimately related. In particular, lepton number violating processes at low energies in combination with sphaleron transitions will typically erase any preexisting BAU. In this contribution, we briefly review the tight connection between neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton number violating processes at the LHC and constraints from successful baryogenesis. We argue that far-reaching conclusions can be drawn unless the baryon asymmetry is stabilized via some newly introduced mechanism.

scholarly journals Neutrino Mass from Cosmology

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Lesgourgues ◽  
Sergio Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
Cosmological Observations ◽  
Cosmological Data ◽  
The Universe

Neutrinos can play an important role in the evolution of the universe, modifying some of the cosmological observables. In this contribution we summarize the main aspects of cosmological relic neutrinos, and we describe how the precision of present cosmological data can be used to learn about neutrino properties, in particular their mass, providing complementary information to beta decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. We show how the analysis of current cosmological observations, such as the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background or the distribution of large-scale structure, provides an upper bound on the sum of neutrino masses of order 1 eV or less, with very good perspectives from future cosmological measurements which are expected to be sensitive to neutrino masses well into the sub-eV range.

scholarly journals SEESAW AT LHC THROUGH LEFT–RIGHT SYMMETRY

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (09) ◽  
pp. 1469-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
GORAN SENJANOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Seesaw Mechanism ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Number Violation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Masses

I argue that LHC may shed light on the nature of neutrino mass through the probe of the seesaw mechanism. The smoking gun signature is lepton number violation through the production of same sign lepton pairs, a collider analogy of the neutrinoless double beta decay. I discuss this in the context of left–right symmetric theories, which led originally to neutrino mass and the seesaw mechanism. A WR gauge boson with a mass in a few TeV region could easily dominate neutrinoless double beta decay, and its discovery at LHC would have spectacular signatures of parity restoration and lepton number violation. Moreover, LHC can measure the masses of the right-handed neutrinos and the right-handed leptonic mixing matrix, which could in turn be used to predict the rates for neutrinoless double decay and lepton flavor violating violating processes. The LR scale at the LHC energies offers great hope of observing these low energy processes in the present and upcoming experiments.

scholarly journals Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Status and Prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle J. Dolinski ◽  
Alan W.P. Poon ◽  
Werner Rodejohann
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model

Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a forbidden, lepton-number-violating nuclear transition whose observation would have fundamental implications for neutrino physics, theories beyond the Standard Model, and cosmology. In this review, we summarize the theoretical progress to understand this process, the expectations and implications under various particle physics models, and the nuclear physics challenges that affect the precise predictions of the decay half-life. We also provide a synopsis of the current and future large-scale experiments that aim to discover this process in physically well-motivated half-life ranges.

scholarly journals A Froggatt–Nielsen flavor model for neutrino physics

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (19) ◽  
pp. 1950102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheal S. Berger ◽  
Maria Dawid
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Physics ◽  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Flavor Violation

Superheavy neutrinos can, via the seesaw model, provide a mechanism for lepton number violation. If they are combined with flavor violation as characterized by the Froggatt–Nielsen mechanism, then the phenomenology for the neutrinos in oscillation experiments, neutrinoless double beta decay, and other experiments can be described by a relatively few number of parameters. We describe the low-energy neutrino mass matrix and show that the results are consistent with currently available data.

scholarly journals First results from the AMoRE-Pilot neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Alenkov ◽  
H. W. Bae ◽  
J. Beyer ◽  
R. S. Boiko ◽  
K. Boonin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Simultaneous Detection ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Majorana Neutrino ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Cryogenic Detectors ◽  
Metallic Magnetic Calorimeter ◽  
Calcium Molybdate ◽  
First Results ◽  
Majorana Neutrino Mass

Abstract The advanced molybdenum-based rare process experiment (AMoRE) aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($$0\nu \beta \beta $$0νββ) of $$^{100}$$100Mo with $$\sim 100\,\hbox {kg}$$∼100kg of $$^{100}$$100Mo-enriched molybdenum embedded in cryogenic detectors with a dual heat and light readout. At the current, pilot stage of the AMoRE project we employ six calcium molybdate crystals with a total mass of 1.9 kg, produced from $$^{48}$$48Ca-depleted calcium and $$^{100}$$100Mo-enriched molybdenum ($$^{48{{\text {depl}}}}\hbox {Ca}^{100}\hbox {MoO}_{4}$$48deplCa100MoO4). The simultaneous detection of heat (phonon) and scintillation (photon) signals is realized with high resolution metallic magnetic calorimeter sensors that operate at milli-Kelvin temperatures. This stage of the project is carried out in the Yangyang underground laboratory at a depth of 700 m. We report first results from the AMoRE-Pilot $$0\nu \beta \beta $$0νββ search with a 111 kg day live exposure of $$^{48{{\text {depl}}}}\hbox {Ca}^{100}\hbox {MoO}_{4}$$48deplCa100MoO4 crystals. No evidence for $$0\nu \beta \beta $$0νββ decay of $$^{100}$$100Mo is found, and a upper limit is set for the half-life of $$0\nu \beta \beta $$0νββ of $$^{100}$$100Mo of $$T^{0\nu }_{1/2} > 9.5\times 10^{22}~\hbox {years}$$T1/20ν>9.5×1022years at 90% C.L. This limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass limit in the range $$\langle m_{\beta \beta }\rangle \le (1.2-2.1)\,\hbox {eV}$$⟨mββ⟩≤(1.2-2.1)eV.

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