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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camilleri J, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fu SH, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Ligi C, Ma L, Ma YG, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mayer D, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Ouellet JL, Pagan S, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vetter KJ, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. Erratum: Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of ^{130}Te with CUORE [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171801 (2021)]. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:249902. [PMID: 38181163 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.249902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.171801.
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Caracciolo V, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Celi E, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Colantoni I, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fantini G, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Kotila J, Martinez M, Nagorny SS, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Ressa A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of ^{82}Se with the Global CUPID-0 Background Model. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:222501. [PMID: 38101385 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.222501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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We report on the results obtained with the global CUPID-0 background model, which combines the data collected in the two measurement campaigns for a total exposure of 8.82 kg×yr of ^{82}Se. We identify with improved precision the background sources within the 3 MeV energy region, where neutrinoless double β decay of ^{82}Se and ^{100}Mo is expected, making more solid the foundations for the background budget of the next-generation CUPID experiment. Relying on the excellent data reconstruction, we measure the two-neutrino double β-decay half-life of ^{82}Se with unprecedented accuracy: T_{1/2}^{2ν}=[8.69±0.05(stat)_{-0.06}^{+0.09}(syst)]×10^{19} yr.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, c/o Dipartimento Fisica, Sapienza Universifreference fittà di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CNRS/CSNSM, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- University of Jyväskylä, Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), Jyväskylä FI-40014, Finland
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, P.O. Box 35 FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Augier C, Barabash AS, Bellini F, Benato G, Beretta M, Bergé L, Billard J, Borovlev YA, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Celi E, Chapellier M, Chiesa D, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, De Jesus M, Dixon T, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Ferri F, Fujikawa BK, Gascon J, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Helis DL, Huang HZ, Huang R, Imbert L, Johnston J, Juillard A, Khalife H, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Kolomensky YG, Konovalov SI, Kotila J, Loaiza P, Ma L, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Mariam R, Marini L, Marnieros S, Navick XF, Nones C, Norman EB, Olivieri E, Ouellet JL, Pagnanini L, Pattavina L, Paul B, Pavan M, Peng H, Pessina G, Pirro S, Poda DV, Polischuk OG, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Redon T, Rojas A, Rozov S, Sanglard V, Scarpaci JA, Schmidt B, Shen Y, Shlegel VN, Šimkovic F, Singh V, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Velázquez M, Ware B, Welliver B, Winslow L, Xue M, Yakushev E, Zarytskyy M, Zolotarova AS. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Rate and Spectral Shape of ^{100}Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:162501. [PMID: 37925694 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.162501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
Abstract
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a yet unobserved nuclear process that would demonstrate Lepton number violation, a clear evidence of beyond standard model physics. The process two neutrino double beta decay (2νββ) is allowed by the standard model and has been measured in numerous experiments. In this Letter, we report a measurement of 2νββ decay half-life of ^{100}Mo to the ground state of ^{100}Ru of [7.07±0.02(stat)±0.11(syst)]×10^{18} yr by the CUPID-Mo experiment. With a relative precision of ±1.6% this is the most precise measurement to date of a 2νββ decay rate in ^{100}Mo. In addition, we constrain higher-order corrections to the spectral shape, which provides complementary nuclear structure information. We report a novel measurement of the shape factor ξ_{3,1}=0.45±0.03(stat)±0.05(syst) based on a constraint on the ratio of higher-order terms from theory, which can be reliably calculated. This is compared to theoretical predictions for different nuclear models. We also extract the first value for the effective axial vector coupling constant obtained from a spectral shape study of 2νββ decay.
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- C Augier
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute," Kurchatov Complex of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyvaäskylä, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LSM, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, 73500 Modane, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SIMAP, 38420 Saint Martin d'Hères, France
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- John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, GPO Box U 1987, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Abele H, Angloher G, Bento A, Canonica L, Cappella F, Cardani L, Casali N, Cerulli R, Chalil A, Chebboubi A, Colantoni I, Crocombette JP, Cruciani A, Del Castello G, Del Gallo Roccagiovine M, Desforge D, Doblhammer A, Dumonteil E, Dorer S, Erhart A, Fuss A, Friedl M, Garai A, Ghete VM, Giuliani A, Goupy C, Gunsing F, Hauff D, Jeanneau F, Jericha E, Kaznacheeva M, Kinast A, Kluck H, Langenkämper A, Lasserre T, Letourneau A, Lhuillier D, Litaize O, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Materna T, Mauri B, Mazzolari A, Mazzucato E, Neyrial H, Nones C, Oberauer L, Ortmann T, Ouzriat A, Pattavina L, Peters L, Petricca F, Poda DV, Potzel W, Pröbst F, Reindl F, Rogly R, Romagnoni M, Rothe J, Schermer N, Schieck J, Schönert S, Schwertner C, Scola L, Serot O, Soum-Sidikov G, Stodolsky L, Strauss R, Tamisari M, Thulliez L, Tomei C, Vignati M, Vivier M, Wagner V, Wex A. Observation of a Nuclear Recoil Peak at the 100 eV Scale Induced by Neutron Capture. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:211802. [PMID: 37295094 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.211802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and low-mass dark matter detectors rely crucially on the understanding of their response to nuclear recoils. We report the first observation of a nuclear recoil peak at around 112 eV induced by neutron capture. The measurement was performed with a CaWO_{4} cryogenic detector from the NUCLEUS experiment exposed to a ^{252}Cf source placed in a compact moderator. We identify the expected peak structure from the single-γ de-excitation of ^{183}W with 3σ and its origin by neutron capture with 6σ significance. This result demonstrates a new method for precise, in situ, and nonintrusive calibration of low-threshold experiments.
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- H Abele
- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
- LIBPhys-UC, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, P3004 516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma I-00133, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma I-00133, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- CEA, DES, SRMP, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, Italy
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camilleri J, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Capelli C, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Celi E, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Del Corso F, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Di Lorenzo S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fu SH, Fujikawa BK, Ghislandi S, Giachero A, Gianvecchio A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Hansen EV, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Kowalski R, Liu R, Ma L, Ma YG, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mayer D, Mei Y, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Olmi M, Ouellet JL, Pagan S, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Quitadamo S, Ressa A, Rosenfeld C, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vetter KJ, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. New Direct Limit on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Half-Life of ^{128}Te with CUORE. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:222501. [PMID: 36493444 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.222501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN in Italy is an experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay. Its main goal is to investigate this decay in ^{130}Te, but its ton-scale mass and low background make CUORE sensitive to other rare processes as well. In this Letter, we present our first results on the search for 0νββ decay of ^{128}Te, the Te isotope with the second highest natural isotopic abundance. We find no evidence for this decay, and using a Bayesian analysis we set a lower limit on the ^{128}Te 0νββ decay half-life of T_{1/2}>3.6×10^{24} yr (90% CI). This represents the most stringent limit on the half-life of this isotope, improving by over a factor of 30 the previous direct search results, and exceeding those from geochemical experiments for the first time.
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- D Q Adams
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Universit Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- IRFU, CEA, Universit Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Caracciolo V, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Colantoni I, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, De Dominicis F, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. Final Result on the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ^{82}Se with CUPID-0. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:111801. [PMID: 36154394 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.111801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
CUPID-0, an array of Zn^{82}Se cryogenic calorimeters, was the first medium-scale demonstrator of the scintillating bolometers' technology. The first project phase (March 2017-December 2018) allowed the most stringent limit on the neutrinoless double beta decay half-life of the isotope of interest, ^{82}Se, to be set. After a six month long detector upgrade, CUPID-0 began its second and last phase (June 2019-February 2020). In this Letter, we describe the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{82}Se with a total exposure (phase I+II) of 8.82 kg yr^{-1} of isotope. We set a limit on the half-life of ^{82}Se to the ground state of ^{82}Kr of T_{1/2}^{0ν}(^{82}Se)>4.6×10^{24} yr (90% credible interval), corresponding to an effective Majorana neutrino mass m_{ββ}<(263-545) meV. We also set the most stringent lower limits on the neutrinoless decays of ^{82}Se to the 0_{1}^{+}, 2_{1}^{+}, and 2_{2}^{+} excited states of ^{82}Kr, finding 1.8×10^{23} yr, 3.0×10^{23} yr, and 3.2×10^{23} yr (90% credible interval) respectively.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CNRS/CSNSM, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, Dafinei I, D’Addabbo A, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Background identification in cryogenic calorimeters through α - α delayed coincidences. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2021; 81:722. [PMID: 34720725 PMCID: PMC8550008 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09476-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Localization and modeling of radioactive contaminations is a challenge that ultra-low background experiments are constantly facing. These are fundamental steps both to extract scientific results and to further reduce the background of the detectors. Here we present an innovative technique based on the analysis of α - α delayed coincidences in 232 Th and 238 U decay chains, developed to investigate the contaminations of the ZnSe crystals in the CUPID-0 experiment. This method allows to disentangle surface and bulk contaminations of the detectors relying on the different probability to tag delayed coincidences as function of the α decay position.
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- Present Address: : Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Present Address: : Fundación ARAID and Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Astropartículas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: : Physics Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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Burdett A, Toumazou C, Sahoo R, Mujan A, Hon TK, Bedzo-Nutakor J, Casali N, Karvela M, Sohbati M, Cooke GS, Davies GW, Moore LSP. Pooled sputum to optimise the efficiency and utility of rapid, point-of-care molecular SARS-CoV-2 testing. BMC Infect Dis 2021; 21:665. [PMID: 34238234 PMCID: PMC8265726 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-021-06316-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background As SARS-CoV-2 testing expands, particularly to widespread asymptomatic testing, high sensitivity point-of-care PCR platforms may optimise potential benefits from pooling multiple patients’ samples. Method We tested patients and asymptomatic citizens for SARS-CoV-2, exploring the efficiency and utility of CovidNudge (i) for detection in individuals’ sputum (compared to nasopharyngeal swabs), (ii) for detection in pooled sputum samples, and (iii) by modelling roll out scenarios for pooled sputum testing. Results Across 295 paired samples, we find no difference (p = 0.1236) in signal strength for sputum (mean amplified replicates (MAR) 25.2, standard deviation (SD) 14.2, range 0–60) compared to nasopharyngeal swabs (MAR 27.8, SD 12.4, range 6–56). At 10-sample pool size we find some drop in absolute strength of signal (individual sputum MAR 42.1, SD 11.8, range 13–60 vs. pooled sputum MAR 25.3, SD 14.6, range 1–54; p < 0.0001), but only marginal drop in sensitivity (51/53,96%). We determine a limit of detection of 250 copies/ml for an individual test, rising only four-fold to 1000copies/ml for a 10-sample pool. We find optimal pooled testing efficiency to be a 12–3-1-sample model, yet as prevalence increases, pool size should decrease; at 5% prevalence to maintain a 75% probability of negative first test, 5-sample pools are optimal. Conclusion We describe for the first time the use of sequentially dipped sputum samples for rapid pooled point of care SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing. The potential to screen asymptomatic cohorts rapidly, at the point-of-care, with PCR, offers the potential to quickly identify and isolate positive individuals within a population “bubble”. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12879-021-06316-z.
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- Alison Burdett
- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK.,Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- DnaNudge Ltd, Imperial College White City Campus, The Translation and Innovation Hub, Level 11, 84 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- North West London Pathology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK.,NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH, UK
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- North West London Pathology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK. .,NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK. .,Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, 369 Fulham Road, London, SW10 9NH, UK.
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Cardani L, Valenti F, Casali N, Catelani G, Charpentier T, Clemenza M, Colantoni I, Cruciani A, D'Imperio G, Gironi L, Grünhaupt L, Gusenkova D, Henriques F, Lagoin M, Martinez M, Pettinari G, Rusconi C, Sander O, Tomei C, Ustinov AV, Weber M, Wernsdorfer W, Vignati M, Pirro S, Pop IM. Reducing the impact of radioactivity on quantum circuits in a deep-underground facility. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2733. [PMID: 33980835 PMCID: PMC8115287 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23032-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
As quantum coherence times of superconducting circuits have increased from nanoseconds to hundreds of microseconds, they are currently one of the leading platforms for quantum information processing. However, coherence needs to further improve by orders of magnitude to reduce the prohibitive hardware overhead of current error correction schemes. Reaching this goal hinges on reducing the density of broken Cooper pairs, so-called quasiparticles. Here, we show that environmental radioactivity is a significant source of nonequilibrium quasiparticles. Moreover, ionizing radiation introduces time-correlated quasiparticle bursts in resonators on the same chip, further complicating quantum error correction. Operating in a deep-underground lead-shielded cryostat decreases the quasiparticle burst rate by a factor thirty and reduces dissipation up to a factor four, showcasing the importance of radiation abatement in future solid-state quantum hardware.
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- IPE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- JARA Institute for Quantum Information, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
- Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o Dip. Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Fundación ARAID and Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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- IPE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Moscow, Russia
- Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia
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- IPE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- IQMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institut Néel, CNRS and Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy
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- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- IQMT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Bellini F, Benato G, Benoît A, Beretta M, Bergé L, Billard J, Borovlev YA, Bourgeois C, Brudanin VB, Camus P, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chiesa D, de Combarieu M, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, De Jesus M, Dixon T, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Ferri F, Fujikawa BK, Gascon J, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Guerard E, Helis DL, Huang HZ, Huang R, Johnston J, Juillard A, Khalife H, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Kolomensky YG, Konovalov SI, Leder A, Loaiza P, Ma L, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Mariam R, Marini L, Marnieros S, Misiak D, Navick XF, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Olivieri E, Ouellet JL, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Paul B, Pavan M, Peng H, Pessina G, Pirro S, Poda DV, Polischuk OG, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Redon T, Rojas A, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Scarpaci JA, Schäffner K, Schmidt B, Shen Y, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Singh V, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Velázquez M, Welliver B, Winslow L, Xue M, Yakushev E, Zarytskyy M, Zolotarova AS. New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ^{100}Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:181802. [PMID: 34018798 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.181802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-Mo experiment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) is a demonstrator for CUPID, the next-generation ton-scale bolometric 0νββ experiment. It consists of a 4.2 kg array of 20 enriched Li_{2}^{100}MoO_{4} scintillating bolometers to search for the lepton-number-violating process of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo. With more than one year of operation (^{100}Mo exposure of 1.17 kg×yr for physics data), no event in the region of interest and, hence, no evidence for 0νββ is observed. We report a new limit on the half-life of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo of T_{1/2}>1.5×10^{24} yr at 90% C.I. The limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass ⟨m_{ββ}⟩<(0.31-0.54) eV, dependent on the nuclear matrix element in the light Majorana neutrino exchange interpretation.
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- E Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LSM, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, 73500 Modane, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SIMAP, 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camilleri J, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fu SH, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Ligi C, Ma L, Ma YG, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mayer D, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Ouellet JL, Pagan S, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vetter KJ, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of ^{130}Te with CUORE. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:171801. [PMID: 33988435 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.171801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
We measured two-neutrino double beta decay of ^{130}Te using an exposure of 300.7 kg yr accumulated with the CUORE detector. Using a Bayesian analysis to fit simulated spectra to experimental data, it was possible to disentangle all the major background sources and precisely measure the two-neutrino contribution. The half-life is in agreement with past measurements with a strongly reduced uncertainty: T_{1/2}^{2ν}=7.71_{-0.06}^{+0.08}(stat)_{-0.15}^{+0.12}(syst)×10^{20} yr. This measurement is the most precise determination of the ^{130}Te 2νββ decay half-life to date.
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- D Q Adams
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - S Copello
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - C Cosmelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - O Cremonesi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - R J Creswick
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - A D'Addabbo
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - I Dafinei
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - C J Davis
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - S Dell'Oro
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - S Di Domizio
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - V Dompè
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - D Q Fang
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
| | - G Fantini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - M Faverzani
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - E Fiorini
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - M A Franceschi
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S H Fu
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - L Gironi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
| | - K M Heeger
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - R G Huang
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - H Z Huang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
| | - J Johnston
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - G Keppel
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
| | - Yu G Kolomensky
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - C Ligi
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
| | - L Ma
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
| | - Y G Ma
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
| | - L Marini
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R H Maruyama
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - D Mayer
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - Y Mei
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
| | - S Morganti
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - T Napolitano
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
| | - M Nastasi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - J Nikkel
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - C Nones
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - I Nutini
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - T O'Donnell
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
| | - J L Ouellet
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - S Pagan
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - C E Pagliarone
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
| | - L Pagnanini
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - M Pallavicini
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - L Pattavina
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - M Pavan
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - G Pessina
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | | | - C Pira
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
| | - S Pirro
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - S Pozzi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - E Previtali
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - A Puiu
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - C Rosenfeld
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - C Rusconi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - M Sakai
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Sangiorgio
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
| | - B Schmidt
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - N D Scielzo
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
| | - V Sharma
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
| | - V Singh
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - M Sisti
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - D Speller
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
| | - P T Surukuchi
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - C Tomei
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - K J Vetter
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - M Vignati
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - S L Wagaarachchi
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - B S Wang
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Wilson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - K Wilson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - L A Winslow
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - S Zimmermann
- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, D'Aguanno D, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Ligi C, Ma YG, Ma L, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zanotti L, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ^{130} Te with CUORE. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:122501. [PMID: 32281829 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.122501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
We report new results from the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in ^{130} Te with the CUORE detector. This search benefits from a fourfold increase in exposure, lower trigger thresholds, and analysis improvements relative to our previous results. We observe a background of (1.38±0.07)×10^{-2} counts/(keV kg yr)) in the 0νββ decay region of interest and, with a total exposure of 372.5 kg yr, we attain a median exclusion sensitivity of 1.7×10^{25} yr. We find no evidence for 0νββ decay and set a 90% credibility interval Bayesian lower limit of 3.2×10^{25} yr on the ^{130} Te half-life for this process. In the hypothesis that 0νββ decay is mediated by light Majorana neutrinos, this results in an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass of 75-350 meV, depending on the nuclear matrix elements used.
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Affiliation(s)
- D Q Adams
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - C Alduino
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - K Alfonso
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
| | - F T Avignone
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - O Azzolini
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
| | - G Bari
- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
| | - F Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - G Benato
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - M Biassoni
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - A Branca
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - C Brofferio
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - C Bucci
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - A Caminata
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - A Campani
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - L Canonica
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - X G Cao
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
| | - S Capelli
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - L Cappelli
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Cardani
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - P Carniti
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - N Casali
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - D Chiesa
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - N Chott
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - M Clemenza
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - S Copello
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - C Cosmelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - O Cremonesi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - R J Creswick
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - A D'Addabbo
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - D D'Aguanno
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
| | - I Dafinei
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - C J Davis
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - S Dell'Oro
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
| | - S Di Domizio
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - V Dompè
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - D Q Fang
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
| | - G Fantini
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - M Faverzani
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - E Ferri
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - F Ferroni
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - E Fiorini
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - M A Franceschi
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
| | - S J Freedman
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - B K Fujikawa
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - A Giachero
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - L Gironi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - A Giuliani
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - P Gorla
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - C Gotti
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - T D Gutierrez
- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
| | - K Han
- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
| | - K M Heeger
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - R G Huang
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - H Z Huang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
| | - J Johnston
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - G Keppel
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
| | - Yu G Kolomensky
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - C Ligi
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
| | - Y G Ma
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
| | - L Ma
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
| | - L Marini
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R H Maruyama
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - Y Mei
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - N Moggi
- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
| | - S Morganti
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - T Napolitano
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
| | - M Nastasi
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - J Nikkel
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
| | - C Nones
- Service de Physique des Particules, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - E B Norman
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - V Novati
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - A Nucciotti
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - I Nutini
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - T O'Donnell
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
| | - J L Ouellet
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - C E Pagliarone
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
| | - L Pagnanini
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Kotila J, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Evidence of Single State Dominance in the Two-Neutrino Double-β Decay of ^{82}Se with CUPID-0. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:262501. [PMID: 31951429 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.262501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
We report on the measurement of the two-neutrino double-β decay of ^{82}Se performed for the first time with cryogenic calorimeters, in the framework of the CUPID-0 experiment. With an exposure of 9.95 kg yr of Zn^{82}Se, we determine the two-neutrino double-β decay half-life of ^{82}Se with an unprecedented precision level, T_{1/2}^{2ν}=[8.60±0.03(stat) _{-0.13}^{+0.19}(syst)]×10^{19} yr. The very high signal-to-background ratio, along with the detailed reconstruction of the background sources allowed us to identify the single state dominance as the underlying mechanism of such a process, demonstrating that the higher state dominance hypothesis is disfavored at the level of 5.5σ.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CSNSM, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Black AT, Hamblion EL, Buttivant H, Anderson SR, Stone M, Casali N, Drobniewski F, Nwoguh F, Marshall BG, Booth L. Tracking and responding to an outbreak of tuberculosis using MIRU-VNTR genotyping and whole genome sequencing as epidemiological tools. J Public Health (Oxf) 2019; 40:e66-e73. [PMID: 29106587 DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdx075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background We describe an outbreak that contributed to a near doubling of the incidence of tuberculosis in Southampton, UK. We examine the importance of 24 locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) genotyping in its identification and management and the role of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in tracing the spread of the strain. Methods Outbreak cases were defined as those diagnosed between January and December 2011 with indistinguishable 24 locus-MIRU-VNTR genotypes or, cases linked epidemiologically. A cluster questionnaire was administered by TB nurses to identify contacts and social settings. Results Overall, 25 patients fulfilled the case definition. No cases with this MIRU-VNTR genotype had been detected in the UK previously. Connections were found between all cases through household contacts or social venues including a football club, Internet cafe and barber's shop. Public health actions included extended contact tracing, venue screening and TB awareness-raising. The outbreak resulted in a high rate of transmission and high incidence of clinical disease among contacts. Conclusions This outbreak illustrates the value of combining active case-finding with prospective MIRU-VNTR genotyping to identify settings to undertake public health action. In addition WGS revealed that the VNTR-defined cluster was a single outbreak and that active TB transmission not reactivation was responsible for this outbreak in non-UK born individuals.
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- Anne T Black
- Public Health England Wessex Centre, Whiteley, Hampshire, UK
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- Public Health England, Field Epidemiology Service (Victoria), London, UK
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- Health Education Wessex, Wessex School of Public Health, Winchester, Hampshire, UK
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- Public Health England, Field Epidemiology Service (Victoria), London, UK
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- National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, UK
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- University Hospital of Southampton, Faculty of Southampton, Life Sciences Building, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Public Health England Wessex Centre, Whiteley, Hampshire, UK
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. Final Result of CUPID-0 Phase-I in the Search for the ^{82}Se Neutrinoless Double-β Decay. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:032501. [PMID: 31386478 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.032501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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CUPID-0 is the first pilot experiment of CUPID, a next-generation project for the measurement of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νDBD) with scintillating bolometers. The detector, consisting of 24 enriched and 2 natural ZnSe crystals, has been taking data at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso from June 2017 to December 2018, collecting a ^{82}Se exposure of 5.29 kg×yr. In this Letter we present the phase-I results in the search for 0νDBD. We demonstrate that the technology implemented by CUPID-0 allows us to reach the lowest background for calorimetric experiments: (3.5_{-0.9}^{+1.0})×10^{-3} counts/(keV kg yr). Monitoring 3.88×10^{25} ^{82}Se nuclei×yr we reach a 90% credible interval median sensitivity of T_{1/2}^{0ν}>5.0×10^{24} yr and set the most stringent limit on the half-life of ^{82}Se 0νDBD: T_{1/2}^{0ν}>3.5×10^{24} yr (90% credible interval), corresponding to m_{ββ}<(311-638) meV depending on the nuclear matrix element calculations.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell'Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Bossio E, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Search of the neutrino-less double beta decay of 82 Se into the excited states of 82 Kr with CUPID-0. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2018; 78:888. [PMID: 30881205 PMCID: PMC6394250 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6340-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-0 experiment searches for double beta decay using cryogenic calorimeters with double (heat and light) read-out. The detector, consisting of 24 ZnSe crystals 95 % enriched in 82 Se and two natural ZnSe crystals, started data-taking in 2017 at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. We present the search for the neutrino-less double beta decay of 82 Se into the 0 1 + , 2 1 + and 2 2 + excited states of 82 Kr with an exposure of 5.74 kg · yr (2.24 × 10 25 emitters · yr). We found no evidence of the decays and set the most stringent limits on the widths of these processes: Γ ( 82 Se → 82 Kr 0 1 + )8.55 × 10 - 24 yr - 1 , Γ ( 82 Se → 82 Kr 2 1 + ) < 6.25 × 10 - 24 yr - 1 , Γ ( 82 Se → 82 Kr 2 2 + )8.25 × 10 - 24 yr - 1 (90 % credible interval).
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Affiliation(s)
- O. Azzolini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Present Address: Fundacion ARAID and U. Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Physik Department, Technische Universität München, D85748 Garching, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Bossio E, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2018; 78:734. [PMID: 30839752 PMCID: PMC6190965 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6202-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The suppression of spurious events in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay will play a major role in next generation experiments. The background of detectors based on the technology of cryogenic calorimeters is expected to be dominated by α particles, that could be disentangled from double beta decay signals by exploiting the difference in the emission of the scintillation light. CUPID-0, an array of enriched Zn 82 Se scintillating calorimeters, is the first large mass demonstrator of this technology. The detector started data-taking in 2017 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso with the aim of proving that dual read-out of light and heat allows for an efficient suppression of the α background. In this paper we describe the software tools we developed for the analysis of scintillating calorimeters and we demonstrate that this technology allows to reach an unprecedented background for cryogenic calorimeters.
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Present Address: Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Lalor MK, Casali N, Walker TM, Anderson LF, Davidson JA, Ratna N, Mullarkey C, Gent M, Foster K, Brown T, Magee J, Barrett A, Crook DW, Drobniewski F, Thomas HL, Abubakar I. The use of whole-genome sequencing in cluster investigation of a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis outbreak. Eur Respir J 2018; 51:13993003.02313-2017. [PMID: 29748309 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02313-2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to delineate transmission networks and investigate the benefits of WGS during cluster investigation.We included clustered cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB)/extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB linked by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) strain typing or epidemiological information in the national cluster B1006, notified between 2007 and 2013 in the UK. We excluded from further investigation cases whose isolates differed by greater than 12 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Data relating to patients' social networks were collected.27 cases were investigated and 22 had WGS, eight of which (36%) were excluded as their isolates differed by more than 12 SNPs to other cases. 18 cases were ruled into the transmission network based on genomic and epidemiological information. Evidence of transmission was inconclusive in seven out of 18 cases (39%) in the transmission network following WGS and epidemiological investigation.This investigation of a drug-resistant TB cluster illustrates the opportunities and limitations of WGS in understanding transmission in a setting with a high proportion of migrant cases. The use of WGS should be combined with classical epidemiological methods. However, not every cluster will be solvable, regardless of the quality of genomic data.
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- Maeve K Lalor
- Tuberculosis Section, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK.,Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Service South, Public Health England, London, UK.,Dept of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Nuffield Dept of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Tuberculosis Section, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Tuberculosis Section, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Tuberculosis Section, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK
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- TB Health Visiting Service, Leeds Community Healthcare, Leeds, UK
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- Yorkshire and the Humber Public Health England Centre, Public Health England, Leeds, UK
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- North East Public Health England Centre, Public Health England, Newcastle, UK
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- PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Service South, Public Health England, London, UK
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- PHE North of England Mycobacterium Reference Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, UK.,School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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- PHE North of England Mycobacterium Reference Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, UK
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- Nuffield Dept of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK
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- PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Service South, Public Health England, London, UK.,Dept of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Tuberculosis Section, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Tuberculosis Section, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK.,Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Marini L, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Reindl F, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. First Result on the Neutrinoless Double-β Decay of ^{82}Se with CUPID-0. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:232502. [PMID: 29932707 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.232502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
We report the result of the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{82}Se obtained with CUPID-0, the first large array of scintillating Zn^{82}Se cryogenic calorimeters implementing particle identification. We observe no signal in a 1.83 kg yr ^{82}Se exposure, and we set the most stringent lower limit on the 0νββ ^{82}Se half-life T_{1/2}^{0ν}>2.4×10^{24} yr (90% credible interval), which corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass m_{ββ}<(376-770) meV depending on the nuclear matrix element calculations. The heat-light readout provides a powerful tool for the rejection of α particles and allows us to suppress the background in the region of interest down to (3.6_{-1.4}^{+1.9})×10^{-3} counts/(keV kg yr), an unprecedented level for this technique.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CNRS/CSNSM, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell'Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Reindl F, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. CUPID-0: the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for 0 ν β β decay investigations. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2018; 78:428. [PMID: 30996670 PMCID: PMC6435222 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5896-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-0 detector hosted at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, is the first large array of enriched scintillating cryogenic detectors for the investigation of82 Se neutrinoless double-beta decay ( 0 ν β β ). CUPID-0 aims at measuring a background index in the region of interest (RoI) for 0 ν β β at the level of 10- 3 counts/(keV kg years), the lowest value ever measured using cryogenic detectors. CUPID-0 operates an array of Zn82 Se scintillating bolometers coupled with bolometric light detectors, with a state of the art technology for background suppression and thorough protocols and procedures for the detector preparation and construction. In this paper, the different phases of the detector design and construction will be presented, from the material selection (for the absorber production) to the new and innovative detector structure. The successful construction of the detector lead to promising preliminary detector performance which is discussed here.
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Institut fur Hochenergiephysik der AW, 1050 Wien, Austria
- Atominstitut, Technical University Vienna, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Alduino C, Alessandria F, Alfonso K, Andreotti E, Arnaboldi C, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Balata M, Bandac I, Banks TI, Bari G, Barucci M, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Benato G, Bersani A, Biare D, Biassoni M, Bragazzi F, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bryant A, Buccheri A, Bucci C, Bulfon C, Camacho A, Caminata A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Capodiferro M, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Cariello M, Carniti P, Carrettoni M, Casali N, Cassina L, Cereseto R, Ceruti G, Chiarini A, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Conventi D, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Crescentini C, Creswick RJ, Cushman JS, D'Addabbo A, D'Aguanno D, Dafinei I, Datskov V, Davis CJ, Del Corso F, Dell'Oro S, Deninno MM, Di Domizio S, Di Vacri ML, Di Paolo L, Drobizhev A, Ejzak L, Faccini R, Fang DQ, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Gaigher R, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gladstone L, Goett J, Gorla P, Gotti C, Guandalini C, Guerzoni M, Gutierrez TD, Haller EE, Han K, Hansen EV, Heeger KM, Hennings-Yeomans R, Hickerson KP, Huang HZ, Iannone M, Ioannucci L, Kadel R, Keppel G, Kogler L, Kolomensky YG, Leder A, Ligi C, Lim KE, Liu X, Ma YG, Maiano C, Maino M, Marini L, Martinez M, Martinez Amaya C, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Mosteiro PJ, Nagorny SS, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Olcese M, Olivieri E, Orio F, Orlandi D, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pedretti M, Pedrotta R, Pelosi A, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Piperno G, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Reindl F, Rimondi F, Risegari L, Rosenfeld C, Rossi C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sala E, Salvioni C, Sangiorgio S, Santone D, Schaeffer D, Schmidt B, Schmidt J, Scielzo ND, Singh V, Sisti M, Smith AR, Stivanello F, Taffarello L, Tatananni L, Tenconi M, Terranova F, Tessaro M, Tomei C, Ventura G, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wallig J, Wang BS, Wang HW, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Wise T, Zanotti L, Zarra C, Zhang GQ, Zhu BX, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via 0νββ Decay of ^{130}Te. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:132501. [PMID: 29694201 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.132501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advancement in this technology, and in this work we apply it for the first time to a high-sensitivity search for a lepton-number-violating process: ^{130}Te neutrinoless double-beta decay. Examining a total TeO_{2} exposure of 86.3 kg yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of (7.7±0.5) keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of (0.014±0.002) counts/(keV kg yr), we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Including systematic uncertainties, we place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T_{1/2}^{0ν}(^{130}Te)>1.3×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.); the median statistical sensitivity of this search is 7.0×10^{24} yr. Combining this result with those of two earlier experiments, Cuoricino and CUORE-0, we find T_{1/2}^{0ν}(^{130}Te)>1.5×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.), which is the most stringent limit to date on this decay. Interpreting this result as a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass, we find m_{ββ}<(110-520) meV, where the range reflects the nuclear matrix element estimates employed.
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- C Alduino
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell'Insubria, Como I-22100, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Astroparticulas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Service de Physique des Particules, CEA / Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell'Insubria, Como I-22100, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Beeman JW, Bekker TB, Bellini F, Benoît A, Bergé L, Bergmann T, Billard J, Boiko RS, Broniatowski A, Brudanin V, Camus P, Capelli S, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chernyak DM, de Combarieu M, Coron N, Danevich FA, Dafinei I, Jesus MD, Devoyon L, Domizio SD, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Enss C, Ferroni F, Fleischmann A, Foerster N, Gascon J, Gastaldo L, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Hehn L, Hervé S, Humbert V, Ivannikova NV, Ivanov IM, Jin Y, Juillard A, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Konovalov SI, Koskas F, Kozlov V, Kraus H, Kudryavtsev VA, Laubenstein M, Sueur HL, Loidl M, Magnier P, Makarov EP, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Marrache-Kikuchi C, Nagorny S, Navick XF, Nikolaichuk MO, Nones C, Novati V, Olivieri E, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Paul B, Penichot Y, Pessina G, Piperno G, Pirro S, Plantevin O, Poda DV, Queguiner E, Redon T, Rodrigues M, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Schäffner K, Scorza S, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Strazzer O, Tcherniakhovski D, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Vasiliev YV, Velázquez M, Vignati M, Weber M, Yakushev E, Zolotarova AS. Development of 100 Mo -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2017; 77:785. [PMID: 31997932 PMCID: PMC6956908 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5343-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
This paper reports on the development of a technology involving 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( ∼ 1 kg ), high optical quality, radiopure 100 Mo -containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2-0.4 kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the Q-value of the double-beta transition of 100 Mo (3034 keV) is 4-6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the α -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than 8 σ . Less than 10 μ Bq/kg activity of 232 Th ( 228 Th ) and 226 Ra in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only 10 kg × d exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of 100 Mo has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as T 1 / 2 = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] × 10 18 years . Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of 100 Mo .
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Affiliation(s)
- E. Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - C. Augier
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - A. S. Barabash
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
| | - J. W. Beeman
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
| | - T. B. Bekker
- V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - F. Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - A. Benoît
- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
| | - L. Bergé
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - T. Bergmann
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - J. Billard
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - R. S. Boiko
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
| | - A. Broniatowski
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - V. Brudanin
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
| | - P. Camus
- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
| | - S. Capelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
| | - L. Cardani
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - N. Casali
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - A. Cazes
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - M. Chapellier
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - F. Charlieux
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - D. M. Chernyak
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Present Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba Japan
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH UK
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, 00044 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Present Address: SNOLAB, Lively, ON Canada
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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D’Addabbo A, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Artusa DR, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Banks TI, Bari G, Beeman J, Bellini F, Bersani A, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camacho A, Caminata A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Carbone L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, Cushman JS, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell’Oro S, Deninno MM, Di Domizio S, Di Vacri ML, Drobizhev A, Fang DQ, Faverzani M, Fernandes G, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gladstone L, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Haller EE, Han K, Hansen E, Heeger KM, Hennings-Yeomans R, Hickerson KP, Huang HZ, Kadel R, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Leder A, Ligi C, Lim KE, Liu X, Ma YG, Maino M, Marini L, Martinez M, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Mosteiro PJ, Napolitano T, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, O’Donnell T, Orio F, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Piperno G, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sangiorgio S, Santone D, Scielzo N, Singh V, Sisti M, Smith AR, Taffarello L, Tenconi M, Terranova F, Tomei C, Trentalange S, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Wang HW, Wilson J, Winslow LA, Wise T, Woodcraft A, Zanotti L, Zhang GQ, Zhu BX, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at LNGS. EPJ Web Conf 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201716407047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Casali N, Broda A, Harris SR, Parkhill J, Brown T, Drobniewski F. Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of a Large Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis Outbreak in London: A Retrospective Observational Study. PLoS Med 2016; 13:e1002137. [PMID: 27701423 PMCID: PMC5049847 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A large isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis outbreak centred on London, United Kingdom, has been ongoing since 1995. The aim of this study was to investigate the power and value of whole genome sequencing (WGS) to resolve the transmission network compared to current molecular strain typing approaches, including analysis of intra-host diversity within a specimen, across body sites, and over time, with identification of genetic factors underlying the epidemiological success of this cluster. METHODS AND FINDINGS We sequenced 344 outbreak isolates from individual patients collected over 14 y (2 February 1998-22 June 2012). This demonstrated that 96 (27.9%) were indistinguishable, and only one differed from this major clone by more than five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The maximum number of SNPs between any pair of isolates was nine SNPs, and the modal distance between isolates was two SNPs. WGS was able to reveal the direction of transmission of tuberculosis in 16 cases within the outbreak (4.7%), including within a multidrug-resistant cluster that carried a rare rpoB mutation associated with rifampicin resistance. Eleven longitudinal pairs of patient pulmonary isolates collected up to 48 mo apart differed from each other by between zero and four SNPs. Extrapulmonary dissemination resulted in acquisition of a SNP in two of five cases. WGS analysis of 27 individual colonies cultured from a single patient specimen revealed ten loci differed amongst them, with a maximum distance between any pair of six SNPs. A limitation of this study, as in previous studies, is that indels and SNPs in repetitive regions were not assessed due to the difficulty in reliably determining this variation. CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that (1) certain paradigms need to be revised, such as the 12 SNP distance as the gold standard upper threshold to identify plausible transmissions; (2) WGS technology is helpful to rule out the possibility of direct transmission when isolates are separated by a substantial number of SNPs; (3) the concept of a transmission chain or network may not be useful in institutional or household settings; (4) the practice of isolating single colonies prior to sequencing is likely to lead to an overestimation of the number of SNPs between cases resulting from direct transmission; and (5) despite appreciable genomic diversity within a host, transmission of tuberculosis rarely results in minority variants becoming dominant. Thus, whilst WGS provided some increased resolution over variable number tandem repeat (VNTR)-based clustering, it was insufficient for inferring transmission in the majority of cases.
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- Nicola Casali
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Public Health England National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Public Health England National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
- Departments of Microbiology and Respiratory Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Papaventsis D, Casali N, Kontsevaya I, Drobniewski F, Cirillo DM, Nikolayevskyy V. Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for detection of drug resistance: a systematic review. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016; 23:61-68. [PMID: 27665704 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 09/10/2016] [Accepted: 09/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVES We conducted a systematic review to determine the diagnostic accuracy of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for the detection of resistance to first- and second-line anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs. METHODS The study was conducted according to the criteria of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews group. A total of 20 publications were included. The sensitivity, specificity, positive-predictive value and negative-predictive value of WGS using phenotypic drug susceptibility testing methods as a reference standard were determined. RESULTS Anti-TB agents tested included all first-line drugs, a variety of reserve drugs, as well as new drugs. Polymorphisms in a total of 53 genes were tested for associations with drug resistance. Pooled sensitivity and specificity values for detection of resistance to selected first-line drugs were 0.98 (95% CI 0.93-0.98) and 0.98 (95% CI 0.98-1.00) for rifampicin and 0.97 (95% CI 0.94-0.99) and 0.93 (95% CI 0.91-0.96) for isoniazid, respectively. Due to high heterogeneity in study designs, lack of data, knowledge of resistance mechanisms and clarity on exclusion of phylogenetic markers, there was a significant variation in analytical performance of WGS for the remaining first-line, reserved drugs and new drugs. CONCLUSIONS Whole genome sequencing could be considered a promising alternative to existing phenotypic and molecular drug susceptibility testing methods for rifampicin and isoniazid pending standardization of analytical pipelines. To ensure clinical relevance of WGS for detection of M. tuberculosis complex drug resistance, future studies should include information on clinical outcomes.
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- D Papaventsis
- National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; PHE National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, UK.
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Artusa DR, Balzoni A, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Camacho A, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, di Vacri ML, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gotti C, Keppel G, Maino M, Mancuso M, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orio F, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. First array of enriched Zn[Formula: see text]Se bolometers to search for double beta decay. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2016; 76:364. [PMID: 28280442 PMCID: PMC5321398 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4223-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 06/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The R&D activity performed during the last years proved the potential of ZnSe scintillating bolometers to the search for neutrino-less double beta decay, motivating the realization of the first large-mass experiment based on this technology: CUPID-0. The isotopic enrichment in [Formula: see text]Se, the Zn[Formula: see text]Se crystals growth, as well as the light detectors production have been accomplished, and the experiment is now in construction at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). In this paper we present the results obtained testing the first three Zn[Formula: see text]Se crystals operated as scintillating bolometers, and we prove that their performance in terms of energy resolution, background rejection capability and intrinsic radio-purity complies with the requirements of CUPID-0.
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- D. R. Artusa
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro (Padova), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Physics Department- Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro (Padova), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro (Padova), Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Korhonen V, Smit PW, Haanperä M, Casali N, Ruutu P, Vasankari T, Soini H. Whole genome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from recurrent episodes of tuberculosis, Finland, 1995-2013. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016; 22:549-54. [PMID: 27021423 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Revised: 02/10/2016] [Accepted: 03/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Recurrent tuberculosis (TB) is caused by an endogenous re-activation of the same strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (relapse) or exogenous infection with a new strain (re-infection). Recurrence of TB in Finland was analysed in a population-based, 19-year study, and genotyping was used to define relapse and re-infection. The M. tuberculosis isolates from patients with suspected relapse were further analysed by whole genome sequencing (WGS) to determine the number and type of mutations occurring in the bacterial genome between the first and second disease episodes. In addition, publicly available tools (PhyResSE and SpolPred) were used to predict drug resistance and spoligotype profile from the WGS data. Of the 8299 notified TB cases, 48 (0.6%) patients had episodes classified as recurrent. Forty-two patients had more than one culture-confirmed TB episode, and isolates from two episodes in 21 patients were available for genotyping. In 18 patients, the M. tuberculosis isolates obtained from the first and second TB episodes had identical spoligotypes. The WGS analysis of the 36 M. tuberculosis isolates from the 18 suspected relapse patients (average time between isolates 2.8 years) revealed 0 to 38 single nucleotide polymorphisms (median 1, mean 3.78) between the first and second isolate. There seemed to be no direct relation between the number of years between the two isolates, or treatment outcome, and the number of single nucleotide polymorphisms. The results suggest that the mutation rate may depend on multiple host-, strain- and treatment-related factors.
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- V Korhonen
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki and Turku, Finland; Tampere University Hospital, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Tampere, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, UK; Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- Finnish Lung Health Association (Filha), Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki and Turku, Finland.
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Drobniewski F, Cooke M, Jordan J, Casali N, Mugwagwa T, Broda A, Townsend C, Sivaramakrishnan A, Green N, Jit M, Lipman M, Lord J, White PJ, Abubakar I. Systematic review, meta-analysis and economic modelling of molecular diagnostic tests for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis. Health Technol Assess 2016; 19:1-188, vii-viii. [PMID: 25952553 DOI: 10.3310/hta19340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), especially multidrug-resistant (MDR, resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid) disease, is associated with a worse patient outcome. Drug resistance diagnosed using microbiological culture takes days to weeks, as TB bacteria grow slowly. Rapid molecular tests for drug resistance detection (1 day) are commercially available and may promote faster initiation of appropriate treatment. OBJECTIVES To (1) conduct a systematic review of evidence regarding diagnostic accuracy of molecular genetic tests for drug resistance, (2) conduct a health-economic evaluation of screening and diagnostic strategies, including comparison of alternative models of service provision and assessment of the value of targeting rapid testing at high-risk subgroups, and (3) construct a transmission-dynamic mathematical model that translates the estimates of diagnostic accuracy into estimates of clinical impact. REVIEW METHODS AND DATA SOURCES A standardised search strategy identified relevant studies from EMBASE, PubMed, MEDLINE, Bioscience Information Service (BIOSIS), System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe Social Policy & Practice (SIGLE) and Web of Science, published between 1 January 2000 and 15 August 2013. Additional 'grey' sources were included. Quality was assessed using quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies version 2 (QUADAS-2). For each diagnostic strategy and population subgroup, a care pathway was constructed to specify which medical treatments and health services that individuals would receive from presentation to the point where they either did or did not complete TB treatment successfully. A total cost was estimated from a health service perspective for each care pathway, and the health impact was estimated in terms of the mean discounted quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost as a result of disease and treatment. Costs and QALYs were both discounted at 3.5% per year. An integrated transmission-dynamic and economic model was used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of introducing rapid molecular testing (in addition to culture and drug sensitivity testing). Probabilistic sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate the impact on cost-effectiveness of diagnostic and treatment time delays, diagnosis and treatment costs, and associated QALYs. RESULTS A total of 8922 titles and abstracts were identified, with 557 papers being potentially eligible. Of these, 56 studies contained sufficient test information for analysis. All three commercial tests performed well when detecting drug resistance in clinical samples, although with evidence of heterogeneity between studies. Pooled sensitivity for GenoType® MTBDRplus (Hain Lifescience, Nehren, Germany) (isoniazid and rifampicin resistance), INNO-LiPA Rif.TB® (Fujirebio Europe, Ghent, Belgium) (rifampicin resistance) and Xpert® MTB/RIF (Cepheid Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) (rifampicin resistance) was 83.4%, 94.6%, 95.4% and 96.8%, respectively; equivalent pooled specificity was 99.6%, 98.2%, 99.7% and 98.4%, respectively. Results of the transmission model suggest that all of the rapid assays considered here, if added to the current diagnostic pathway, would be cost-saving and achieve a reduction in expected QALY loss compared with current practice. GenoType MTBDRplus appeared to be the most cost-effective of the rapid tests in the South Asian population, although results were similar for GeneXpert. In all other scenarios GeneXpert appeared to be the most cost-effective strategy. CONCLUSIONS Rapid molecular tests for rifampicin and isoniazid resistance were sensitive and specific. They may also be cost-effective when added to culture drug susceptibility testing in the UK. There is global interest in point-of-care testing and further work is needed to review the performance of emerging tests and the wider health-economic impact of decentralised testing in clinics and primary care, as well as non-health-care settings, such as shelters and prisons. STUDY REGISTRATION This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42011001537. FUNDING The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme.
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- Francis Drobniewski
- Public Health England National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, UK
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Modelling and Economics Unit, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Modelling and Economics Unit, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Modelling and Economics Unit, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- Modelling and Economics Unit, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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Williams OM, Abeel T, Casali N, Cohen K, Pym AS, Mungall SB, Desjardins CA, Banerjee A, Drobniewski F, Earl AM, Cooke GS. Fatal nosocomial MDR TB identified through routine genetic analysis and whole-genome sequencing. Emerg Infect Dis 2015; 21:1082-4. [PMID: 25988581 PMCID: PMC4451893 DOI: 10.3201/eid2106.141903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Beeman JW, Bellini F, Benetti P, Cardani L, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gotti C, Laubenstein M, Maino M, Nagorny S, Nisi S, Nones C, Orio F, Pagnanini L, Pattavina L, Pessina G, Piperno G, Pirro S, Previtali E, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M. Double-beta decay investigation with highly pure enriched [Formula: see text]Se for the LUCIFER experiment. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2015; 75:591. [PMID: 26705394 PMCID: PMC4681472 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3822-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
The LUCIFER project aims at deploying the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for the investigation of neutrinoless double-beta decay of [Formula: see text]Se. The matrix which embeds the source is an array of ZnSe crystals, where enriched [Formula: see text]Se is used as decay isotope. The radiopurity of the initial components employed for manufacturing crystals, that can be operated as bolometers, is crucial for achieving a null background level in the region of interest for double-beta decay investigations. In this work, we evaluated the radioactive content in 2.5 kg of 96.3 % enriched [Formula: see text]Se metal, measured with a high-purity germanium detector at the Gran Sasso deep underground laboratory. The limits on internal contaminations of primordial decay chain elements of [Formula: see text]Th, [Formula: see text]U and [Formula: see text]U are respectively: [Formula: see text]61, [Formula: see text]110 and [Formula: see text]74 [Formula: see text]Bq/kg at 90 % C.L. The extremely low-background conditions in which the measurement was carried out and the high radiopurity of the [Formula: see text]Se allowed us to establish the most stringent lower limits on the half-lives of the double-beta decay of [Formula: see text]Se to 0[Formula: see text], 2[Formula: see text] and 2[Formula: see text] excited states of [Formula: see text]Kr of 3.4[Formula: see text]10[Formula: see text], 1.3[Formula: see text]10[Formula: see text] and 1.0[Formula: see text]10[Formula: see text] y, respectively, with a 90 % C.L.
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- J. W. Beeman
- />Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- />Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16126 Genoa, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />Centre de Spectrometrié de Masse, 91405 Orsay, France
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- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- />INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- />CEA, Irfu, SPP Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- />INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- />INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- />INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Alfonso K, Artusa DR, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Balata M, Banks TI, Bari G, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Bersani A, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Caminata A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Carbone L, Cardani L, Casali N, Cassina L, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, Cushman JS, Dafinei I, Dally A, Dell'Oro S, Deninno MM, Di Domizio S, Di Vacri ML, Drobizhev A, Ejzak L, Fang DQ, Faverzani M, Fernandes G, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Haller EE, Han K, Hansen E, Heeger KM, Hennings-Yeomans R, Hickerson KP, Huang HZ, Kadel R, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Lim KE, Liu X, Ma YG, Maino M, Martinez M, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Nisi S, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, O'Donnell T, Orio F, Orlandi D, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pedretti M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Piperno G, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sala E, Sangiorgio S, Santone D, Scielzo ND, Sisti M, Smith AR, Taffarello L, Tenconi M, Terranova F, Tomei C, Trentalange S, Ventura G, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Wang HW, Wielgus L, Wilson J, Winslow LA, Wise T, Zanotti L, Zarra C, Zhang GQ, Zhu BX, Zucchelli S. Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of (130)Te with CUORE-0. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 115:102502. [PMID: 26382673 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.102502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
We report the results of a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in a 9.8 kg yr exposure of (130)Te using a bolometric detector array, CUORE-0. The characteristic detector energy resolution and background level in the region of interest are 5.1±0.3 keV FWHM and 0.058±0.004(stat)±0.002(syst)counts/(keV kg yr), respectively. The median 90% C.L. lower-limit half-life sensitivity of the experiment is 2.9×10(24) yr and surpasses the sensitivity of previous searches. We find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay of (130)Te and place a Bayesian lower bound on the decay half-life, T(1/2)(0ν)>2.7×10(24) yr at 90% C.L. Combining CUORE-0 data with the 19.75 kg yr exposure of (130)Te from the Cuoricino experiment we obtain T(1/2)(0ν)>4.0×10(24) yr at 90% C.L. (Bayesian), the most stringent limit to date on this half-life. Using a range of nuclear matrix element estimates we interpret this as a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass, m(ββ)<270-760 meV.
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- K Alfonso
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
- INFN-Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), 91405 Orsay Campus, Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Astroparticulas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze per la Qualità della Vita, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-47921, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- CEA, Centre de Saclay, Irfu/SPP, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), 91405 Orsay Campus, Orsay, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67010, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Battistelli ES, Bellini F, Bucci C, Calvo M, Cardani L, Casali N, Castellano MG, Colantoni I, Coppolecchia A, Cosmelli C, Cruciani A, de Bernardis P, Di Domizio S, D’Addabbo A, Martinez M, Masi S, Pagnanini L, Tomei C, Vignati M. CALDER: neutrinoless double-beta decay identification in TeO[Formula: see text] bolometers with kinetic inductance detectors. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2015; 75:353. [PMID: 26269692 PMCID: PMC4528268 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3575-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Next-generation experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay must be sensitive to a Majorana neutrino mass as low as 10[Formula: see text]. CUORE , an array of 988 TeO[Formula: see text] bolometers being commissioned at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, features an expected sensitivity of 50-130[Formula: see text] at 90 % C.L. The background is expected to be dominated by [Formula: see text] radioactivity, and can be in principle removed by detecting the small amount of Cherenkov light emitted by the [Formula: see text] signal. The Cryogenic wide-Area Light Detectors with Excellent Resolution project aims at developing a small prototype experiment consisting of TeO[Formula: see text] bolometers coupled to high-sensitivity light detectors based on kinetic inductance detectors. The R&D is focused on the light detectors in view of the implementation in a next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment.
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, AQ Italy
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- />Institut Néel, CNRS, Saint-Martin-d’Héres, France
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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- />INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, AQ Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, AQ Italy
- />INFN Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy
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- />INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- />Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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Moggi N, Artusa DR, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Balata M, Banks TI, Bari G, Beeman J, Bellini F, Bersani A, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Cai XZ, Camacho A, Caminata A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Carbone L, Cardani L, Casali N, Cassina L, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, Cushman JS, Dafinei I, Dally A, Datskov V, Dell’oro S, Deninno MM, Di Domizio S, Di Vacri ML, Drobizhev A, Ejzak L, Fang DQ, Farach HA, Faverzani M, Fernandes G, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Haller EE, Han K, Heeger KM, Hennings-Yeomans R, Hickerson KP, Huang HZ, Kadel R, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Li YL, Ligi C, Lim KE, Liu X, Ma YG, Maiano C, Maino M, Martinez M, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nisi S, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, O’Donnell T, Orio F, Orlandi D, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Piperno G, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sala E, Sangiorgio S, Santone D, Scielzo ND, Sisti M, Smith AR, Taffarello L, Tenconi M, Terranova F, Tian WD, Tomei C, Trentalange S, Ventura G, Vignati M, Wang BS, Wang HW, Wielgus L, Wilson J, Winslow LA, Wise T, Woodcraft A, Zanotti L, Zarra C, Zhang GQ, Zhu BX, Zucchelli S. Neutrinoless double-beta decay search with CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments. EPJ Web of Conferences 2015. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20159003004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Casali N, Vignati M, Beeman J, Bellini F, Cardani L, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Nagorny S, Orio F, Pattavina L, Pessina G, Piperno G, Pirro S, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C. TeO[Formula: see text] bolometers with Cherenkov signal tagging: towards next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2015; 75:12. [PMID: 25983645 PMCID: PMC4423896 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3225-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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CUORE, an array of 988 TeO[Formula: see text] bolometers, is about to be one of the most sensitive experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Its sensitivity could be further improved by removing the background from [Formula: see text] radioactivity. A few years ago it was pointed out that the signal from [Formula: see text]s can be tagged by detecting the emitted Cherenkov light, which is not produced by [Formula: see text]s. In this paper we confirm this possibility. For the first time we measured the Cherenkov light emitted by a CUORE crystal, and found it to be 100 eV at the [Formula: see text]-value of the decay. To completely reject the [Formula: see text] background, we compute that one needs light detectors with baseline noise below 20 eV RMS, a value which is 3-4 times smaller than the average noise of the bolometric light detectors we are using. We point out that an improved light detector technology must be developed to obtain TeO[Formula: see text] bolometric experiments able to probe the inverted hierarchy of neutrino masses.
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- N. Casali
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università degli studi dell’Aquila, 67100 Coppito (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L‘Aquila, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Giachero A, Artusa DR, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Balata M, Banks TI, Bari G, Beeman J, Bellini F, Bersani A, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Cai XZ, Camacho A, Caminata A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Carbone L, Cardani L, Casali N, Cassina L, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick R, Cushman J, Dafinei I, Dally A, Datskov V, Dell’Oro S, Deninno MM, Di Domizio S, di Vacri ML, Drobizhev A, Ejzak L, Fang DQ, Farach HA, Faverzani M, Fernandes G, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Haller EE, Han K, Heeger KM, Hennings-Yeomans R, Hickerson KP, Huang HZ, Kadel R, Kazkaz K, Keppel G, Kolomensky Y, Li Y, Ligi C, Lim KE, Liu X, Ma YG, Maiano C, Maino M, Martinez M, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, O’Donnell T, Orio F, Orlandi D, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pedretti M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Piperno G, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Rampazzo V, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sala E, Sangiorgio S, Scielzo ND, Sisti M, Smith AR, Taffarello L, Tenconi M, Terranova F, Tian WD, Tomei C, Trentalange S, Ventura G, Vignati M, Wang BS, Wang HW, Wielgus L, Wilson J, Winslow LA, Wise T, Woodcraft A, Zanotti L, Zarra C, Zhang GQ, Zhu BX, Zucchelli S. The CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments at Gran Sasso. EPJ Web of Conferences 2015. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20159504024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Smit PW, Vasankari T, Aaltonen H, Haanperä M, Casali N, Marttila H, Marttila J, Ojanen P, Ruohola A, Ruutu P, Drobniewski F, Lyytikäinen O, Soini H. Enhanced tuberculosis outbreak investigation using whole genome sequencing and IGRA. Eur Respir J 2014; 45:276-9. [PMID: 25323236 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00125914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Pieter W Smit
- European Public Health Microbiology Training Programme (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden Dept of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Respiratory Diseases, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland Finnish Lung Health Association (FILHA), Helsinki, Finland
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- Dept of Respiratory Diseases, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College, London, UK Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Dept of Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Infection Control Unit, Welfare Division, City of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Respiratory Diseases, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Imperial College, London, UK Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, London, UK
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- Dept of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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- Dept of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Turku, Finland
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Faksri K, Chaiprasert A, Pardieu C, Casali N, Palaga T, Prammananan T, Palittapongarnpim P, Prayoonwiwat N, Drobniewski F. Heterogeneity of phenotypic characteristics of the modern and ancestral Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Asian Pac J Allergy Immunol 2014; 32:124-32. [PMID: 25003725 DOI: 10.12932/ap0361.32.2.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND The Beijing strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is of great concern because this hypervirulent strain has caused numerous tuberculosis outbreaks. However, the mechanisms that allow the MTB Beijing strain to be highly pathogenic remain unclear and previous studies have revealed heterogeneity within this family. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between some phenotypic characteristics and phylogroups of the Beijing strain of MTB. METHODS Eight Beijing strains, 5 modern and 3 ancestral sublineages, were selected from the phylogroups of MTB. The selection was based on copy number of IS6110 at NTF, region of differences, and single nucleotide polymorphisms. The abilities of these strains to grow intracellularly in THP-1 macrophages, to induce apoptosis, necrosis, and cytokines production were examined using quantitative real-time PCR and commercially available ELISA kits, respectively. RESULTS There were some significant differences between the two sublineages of the Beijing strain of MTB. The ancestral Beijing sublineages showed higher intracellular growth rates (p < 0.05) and necrosis induction rates (p < 0.01) than the modern Beijing sublineages. By contrast, the modern Beijing sublineages induced lower apoptosis and protective cytokine responses, i.e., TNF-α (p < 0.05) and IL-6 (p < 0.01) and higher non-protective IL-10 response. The modern Beijing sublineages may have evolved so that they have greater ability to diminish host defense mechanisms. The slower growth rate and reduced necrosis induction in host cells might allow the bacteria to cause a persistent infection. CONCLUSION The results revealed a phylogroup-associated heterogeneity of phenotypes among MTB Beijing sublineages.
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- Kiatichai Faksri
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
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Casali N, Nikolayevskyy V, Balabanova Y, Harris SR, Ignatyeva O, Kontsevaya I, Corander J, Bryant J, Parkhill J, Nejentsev S, Horstmann RD, Brown T, Drobniewski F. Evolution and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Russian population. Nat Genet 2014; 46:279-86. [PMID: 24464101 PMCID: PMC3939361 DOI: 10.1038/ng.2878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 347] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2013] [Accepted: 01/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The molecular mechanisms determining transmissibility and prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a population were investigated through whole genome sequencing of 1,000 prospectively-obtained patient isolates from Russia. Two-thirds belonged to the Beijing lineage, which was dominated by two homogeneous clades. MDR genotypes were found in 48% of isolates overall and 87% of the major clades. The most common rifampicin-resistance rpoB mutation was associated with fitness-compensatory mutations in rpoA or rpoC, and a novel intragenic compensatory substitution was identified. The proportion of MDR cases with XDR-tuberculosis was 16% overall with 65% of MDR isolates harboring eis mutations, selected by kanamycin therapy, which may drive the expansion of strains with enhanced virulence. The combination of drug resistance and compensatory mutations displayed by the major clades confer clinical resistance without compromising fitness and transmissibility, revealing a biological contribution to the tuberculosis program weaknesses driving the persistence and spread of M/XDR-tuberculosis in Russia and beyond.
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- Nicola Casali
- Public Health England (PHE) National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Clinical TB and HIV Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Public Health England (PHE) National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Clinical TB and HIV Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Public Health England (PHE) National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Clinical TB and HIV Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russian Federation
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- Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Samara, Russian Federation
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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- Public Health England (PHE) National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Clinical TB and HIV Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- 1] Public Health England (PHE) National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Clinical TB and HIV Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. [2] Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College, London, UK
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Drobniewski F, Nikolayevskyy V, Maxeiner H, Balabanova Y, Casali N, Kontsevaya I, Ignatyeva O. Rapid diagnostics of tuberculosis and drug resistance in the industrialized world: clinical and public health benefits and barriers to implementation. BMC Med 2013; 11:190. [PMID: 23987891 PMCID: PMC3765611 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In this article, we give an overview of new technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and drug resistance, consider their advantages over existing methodologies, broad issues of cost, cost-effectiveness and programmatic implementation, and their clinical as well as public health impact, focusing on the industrialized world. Molecular nucleic-acid amplification diagnostic systems have high specificity for TB diagnosis (and rifampicin resistance) but sensitivity for TB detection is more variable. Nevertheless, it is possible to diagnose TB and rifampicin resistance within a day and commercial automated systems make this possible with minimal training. Although studies are limited, these systems appear to be cost-effective. Most of these tools are of value clinically and for public health use. For example, whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis offers a powerful new approach to the identification of drug resistance and to map transmission at a community and population level.
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- Francis Drobniewski
- Public Health England National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK.
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Pellegrino FLPC, Casali N, Dos Santos KRN, Nouér SA, Scheidegger EMD, Riley LW, Moreira BM. Pseudomonas aeruginosaEpidemic Strain CarryingblaSPMMetallo-Beta-Lactamase Detected in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. J Chemother 2013; 18:151-6. [PMID: 16736883 DOI: 10.1179/joc.2006.18.2.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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The present study was designed to characterize beta-lactamase genes and evaluate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) typing for multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) genotype A isolates from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, collected between April 1999 and March 2000 and one additional isolate collected in June 2002. As reported previously, all of the genotype A isolates produced non-characterized metallo-beta-lactamase. These isolates (22) were screened for the bla(SPM) gene by PCR and dot-blotting. Isolates were typed by PCR fingerprinting with primers RAPD-1, 272, 208, 1290, ERIC-1 and ERIC-2. The bla(SPM) gene was detected in 18 (82%) of the 22 isolates. PCR fingerprinting gave results that correlated with PFGE, except with primer 1290. In Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian states, nearly all SPM-producing P. aeruginosa isolates belong to a single PFGE type accounting for a large proportion of drug-resistant P. aeruginosa hospital infections. RAPD PCR fingerprinting may be a useful technique to screen for an epidemic multidrug-resistant strain in Brazil.
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- F L P C Pellegrino
- Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Casali N, Nikolayevskyy V, Balabanova Y, Ignatyeva O, Kontsevaya I, Harris SR, Bentley SD, Parkhill J, Nejentsev S, Hoffner SE, Horstmann RD, Brown T, Drobniewski F. Microevolution of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Russia. Genome Res 2012; 22:735-45. [PMID: 22294518 DOI: 10.1101/gr.128678.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB), which is resistant to both first- and second-line antibiotics, is an escalating problem, particularly in the Russian Federation. Molecular fingerprinting of 2348 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates collected in Samara Oblast, Russia, revealed that 72% belonged to the Beijing lineage, a genotype associated with enhanced acquisition of drug resistance and increased virulence. Whole-genome sequencing of 34 Samaran isolates, plus 25 isolates representing global M. tuberculosis complex diversity, revealed that Beijing isolates originating in Eastern Europe formed a monophyletic group. Homoplasic polymorphisms within this clade were almost invariably associated with antibiotic resistance, indicating that the evolution of this population is primarily driven by drug therapy. Resistance genotypes showed a strong correlation with drug susceptibility phenotypes. A novel homoplasic mutation in rpoC, found only in isolates carrying a common rpoB rifampicin-resistance mutation, may play a role in fitness compensation. Most multidrug-resistant (MDR) isolates also had mutations in the promoter of a virulence gene, eis, which increase its expression and confer kanamycin resistance. Kanamycin therapy may thus select for mutants with increased virulence, helping preserve bacterial fitness and promoting transmission of drug-resistant TB strains. The East European clade was dominated by two MDR clusters, each disseminated across Samara. Polymorphisms conferring fluoroquinolone resistance were independently acquired multiple times within each cluster, indicating that XDR TB is currently not widely transmitted.
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- Nicola Casali
- National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 2AT, United Kingdom
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Miyata T, Cheigh CI, Casali N, Goodridge A, Marjanovic O, Kendall LV, Riley LW. An adjunctive therapeutic vaccine against reactivation and post-treatment relapse tuberculosis. Vaccine 2011; 30:459-65. [PMID: 22079078 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.10.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Revised: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 10/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Preventing latently infected or inadequately treated individuals from progressing to active disease could make a major impact on tuberculosis (TB) control worldwide. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new approach to prevent reactivation and TB relapse that combines drug treatment and vaccination. Mycobacterium tuberculosis harbors a gene called mce1R that, in vivo, negatively regulates a 13-gene cluster called the mce1 operon. In a Cornell mouse model, BALB/c mice infected with M. tuberculosis H37Rv disrupted in mce1R consistently develop latent infection and reactivation disease. We used this new mouse model to test a recombinant M. tuberculosis cell wall protein (Mce1A), encoded by a gene in the mce1 operon, for its ability to prevent post-treatment TB. At 32 weeks of follow-up, a complete sterilizing protection was observed in lungs of the vaccinated mice. Mce1A but not phosphate-buffered saline administered intraperitoneally during the period of latent infection prevented disease progression and proliferation of M. tuberculosis mce1R mutant. The only visible lung lesions in vaccinated mice included small clusters of lymphocytes, while the unvaccinated mice showed progressively enlarging granulomas comprised of foamy macrophages surrounded by lymphocytes. The combination of anti-TB drugs and a vaccine may serve as a powerful treatment modality against TB reactivation and relapse.
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- Toshiko Miyata
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, 201 Hildebrand Hall, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Cheigh CI, Senaratne R, Uchida Y, Casali N, Kendall LV, Riley LW. Posttreatment reactivation of tuberculosis in mice caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis disrupted in mce1R. J Infect Dis 2010; 202:752-9. [PMID: 20629532 DOI: 10.1086/655224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The reactivation of tuberculosis arises in persons who are latently infected and in those who have been previously treated. The mechanism of the reactivation of tuberculosis in either situation is not well understood. A 13-gene mce1 operon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was previously shown to be associated with latent infection in mice and may also play a role in reactivation. METHODS We tested mce1 operon M. tuberculosis mutants in a Cornell mouse model to examine disease progression and reactivation. RESULTS In BALB/c mice, the wild-type, mce1 operon mutant, and mce1R (negative transcriptional regulator of the mce1 operon) mutant M. tuberculosis strains were equally susceptible to orally administered isoniazid and pyrazinamide. However, after cessation of the treatment, the mce1R mutant rapidly and progressively proliferated in mouse lungs and spleens, whereas the other strains remained latent. The reactivation of the mce1R mutant was associated with disease progression in the mouse lungs. CONCLUSION This observation demonstrates that the constitutive expression of the mce1 genes by M. tuberculosis in the latent state can cause a reactivation of tuberculosis. The constitutive expression of the mce1 genes in the mce1R mutant may allow this mutant to maintain its lipid metabolism, enabling it to survive long-term and proliferate inside granulomas.
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- Chan-Ick Cheigh
- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Pellegrino FL, Casali N, Nouér SA, Riley LW, Moreira BM. A carbapenem-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain carrying the blaSPM gene. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2008; 61:214-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2007] [Revised: 01/02/2008] [Accepted: 01/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Lima P, Sidders B, Morici L, Reader R, Senaratne R, Casali N, Riley LW. Enhanced mortality despite control of lung infection in mice aerogenically infected with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis mce1 operon mutant. Microbes Infect 2007; 9:1285-90. [PMID: 17890119 PMCID: PMC2894154 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2007] [Revised: 05/07/2007] [Accepted: 05/30/2007] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes a variety of host clinical outcomes. We previously showed that M. tuberculosis disrupted in an operon called mce1 proliferates unchecked in BALB/c mouse lungs. The observed outcome could be attributed either to the mutant bacterial burden or to the host immunopathologic response. To differentiate these possibilities, we studied the outcomes of infection in a mouse strain (C57BL/6) less susceptible to M. tuberculosis than BALB/c. We found that the mutant infection reached a plateau in the lungs at a rate similar to that of the wild type. All mice infected with the mutant, but only half of the groups of mice infected with the wild type or complemented strain, died by 40 weeks (p<0.05). At 12-21 weeks of infection, histological examination of the lungs of mice infected with the mutant showed a diffuse pattern of lymphocyte infiltration, while that of mice infected with the other strains exhibited a nodular cellular infiltration pattern. Surprisingly, the number of bacilli recovered from the lungs was similar in all three groups. These observations suggest that rather than the bacterial burden, products of the mce1 operon may directly or indirectly modulate the host immune response that is protective to both the tubercle bacilli and the host.
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- Patricia Lima
- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Comparative Pathology Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Corresponding author: Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. Phone: (510) 642-9200. Fax: (510) 642-6350.
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Uchida Y, Casali N, White A, Morici L, Kendall LV, Riley LW. Accelerated immunopathological response of mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis disrupted in the mce1 operon negative transcriptional regulator. Cell Microbiol 2007; 9:1275-83. [PMID: 17223927 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00870.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes a variety of clinical outcomes determined by host as well as bacterial factors. M. tuberculosis disrupted in the mce1 operon causes increased mortality in immunocompetent mice. This operon is negatively regulated by mce1R (Rv0165c). We studied the role of mce1R in infection outcome in mice. At 5 x 10(4) tail vein infectious dose, the median survival time (MST) of mice infected with the mce1R mutant M. tuberculosis H37Rv was 293 days, while mice infected with the wild-type H37Rv survived more than 350 days (P < 0.0001). At a higher dose (5 x 10(6)), the MST of mutant-infected mice was 32 days, compared with 127 days for wild type-infected mice (P < 0.0001). With either tail vein or aerosol infection, mutant-infected mice developed larger granulomatous lesions in their lungs than mice infected with the wild type. Mutant-infected mice were unable to control the bacterial burden in the first 4 weeks of infection, but even after achieving control later, these mice succumbed to granulomatous pneumonia. These observations suggest that the early deregulated expression of the mce1 operon products determines later granulomatous tissue response. mce1 operon may homeostatically regulate the cell wall architecture in vivo that elicits a steady-state granuloma tissue response permitting M. tuberculosis to establish a long-term infection.
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- Yujiro Uchida
- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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In the murine model of infection, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis mce1 operon mutant elicits an aberrant granulomatous response, resulting in uncontrolled replication and failure to enter a persistent state. In this study, we demonstrate that the mce1 genes can be transcribed as a 13-gene polycistronic message encompassing Rv0166 to Rv0178. Quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR and immunoblot analyses revealed that the mce1 genes and proteins are expressed during in vitro growth but are significantly down-regulated in intracellular bacilli isolated from murine macrophages. A homologue of the FadR subfamily of GntR transcriptional regulators, Rv0165c (designated Mce1R), lies upstream and is divergently transcribed from the operon. To investigate whether this gene plays a role in regulation of mce1 expression, we created an M. tuberculosis mce1R deletion mutant. There was no difference in expression of mce1 operon genes in Deltamce1R compared to expression in the wild type during logarithmic growth in vitro. However, in bacilli isolated from murine macrophages, expression of mce1 genes was significantly higher in Deltamce1R. In addition, overexpression of mce1R resulted in repression of the mce1 genes. These data demonstrate that Mce1R is a negative regulator that acts intracellularly to repress expression of the mce1 operon. We propose that Mce1R facilitates balanced temporal expression of the mce1 products required for organized granuloma formation, which is both protective to the host and necessary for the persistence of M. tuberculosis.
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- Nicola Casali
- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Nicola Casali
- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Shimono N, Morici L, Casali N, Cantrell S, Sidders B, Ehrt S, Riley LW. Hypervirulent mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resulting from disruption of the mce1 operon. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:15918-23. [PMID: 14663145 PMCID: PMC307668 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2433882100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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An estimated one-third of the world's population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiologic agent of tuberculosis. Here, we demonstrate that, unlike wild-type M. tuberculosis, a strain of M. tuberculosis disrupted in the mce1 operon was unable to enter a stable persistent state of infection in mouse lungs. Instead, the mutant continued to replicate and killed the mice more rapidly than did the wild-type strain. Histological examination of mouse lungs infected with the mutant strain revealed diffusely organized granulomas with aberrant inflammatory cell migration. Murine macrophages infected ex vivo with the mutant strain were reduced in their ability to produce tumor necrosis factor alpha, IL-6, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, and nitric oxide (NO), but not IL-4. The mce1 mutant strain complemented with the mce1 genes stimulated tumor necrosis factor alpha and NO production by murine macrophages at levels stimulated by the wild-type strain. These observations indicate that the mce1 operon mutant is unable to stimulate T helper 1-type immunity in mice. The hypervirulence of the mutant strain may have resulted from its inability to stimulate a proinflammatory response that would otherwise induce organized granuloma formation and control the infection without killing the organism. The mce1 operon of M. tuberculosis may be involved in modulating the host inflammatory response in such a way that the bacterium can enter a persistent state without being eliminated or causing disease in the host.
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- Nobuyuki Shimono
- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Parish T, Smith DA, Kendall S, Casali N, Bancroft GJ, Stoker NG. Deletion of two-component regulatory systems increases the virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infect Immun 2003; 71:1134-40. [PMID: 12595424 PMCID: PMC148821 DOI: 10.1128/iai.71.3.1134-1140.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Two-component regulatory signal transduction systems are widely distributed among bacteria and enable the organisms to make coordinated changes in gene expression in response to a variety of environmental stimuli. The genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains 11 complete two-component systems, four isolated homologous regulators, and three isolated homologous sensors. We have constructed defined mutations in six of these genes and measured virulence in a SCID mouse model. Mice infected with four of the mutants (deletions of devR, tcrXY, trcS, and kdpDE) died more rapidly than those infected with wild-type bacteria. The other two mutants (narL and Rv3220c) showed no change compared to the wild-type H37Rv strain. The most hypervirulent mutant (devRdelta) also grew more rapidly in the acute stage of infection in immunocompetent mice and in gamma interferon-activated macrophages. These results define a novel class of genes in this pathogen whose presence slows down its multiplication in vivo or increases its susceptibility to host killing mechanisms. Thus, M. tuberculosis actively maintains a balance between its own survival and that of the host.
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- Tanya Parish
- Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
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