Michelle Dolinski
University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
1:00 pm in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge
Cuoricino update and progress toward CUORE
Abstract: The Cuoricino experiment has been running at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories since 2003. I will present the current limit on the half-life for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Te-130, corresponding to 15.53 kg-yr of Te-130. I will also report on the status of CUORE, a next generation experiment consisting of 19 Cuoricino-like towers. I will discuss my work on the measurement of gamma-production cross sections for neutron-induced interactions on the stable Te isotopes. This measurement will be used to estimate the rates for neutron-induced backgrounds in CUORE.