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1–7 Jun 2014
Boston University
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CALDER: cryogenic light detectors for background free searches

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Metcalf Auditorium (Boston University)

Metcalf Auditorium

Boston University

George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215
Board: 124
Poster Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Speaker

Dr Laura Cardani (Sapienza, University of Roma)

Description

The achievement of zero background has become crucial for bolometric experiments searching for neutrino-less double beta decay (0nDBD) and Dark Matter interactions. The CUORE experiment, that will study the 130Te 0nDBD, could take advantage from the measurement of the tiny Cherenkov light emitted by electrons to reject alpha interactions, that are the dominant background source for 0nDBD. The LUCIFER experiment, whose main goal is the search for the 0nDBD of 82Se, could reach a competitive sensitivity also on Dark Matter interactions if equipped with light detectors enabling the identification of the background due to electrons. The interest in sensitive cryogenic light detectors gave birth to the CALDER project, that will exploit the Kinetic Inductance Detector's technology to develop wide area devices with RMS baseline resolution lower than 20 eV, wide temperature range of operation, and multiplexed read-out, that will be essential for next generation experiments with hundreds of channels. In this poster we present the current status of CALDER and its applications.

Primary author

Dr Laura Cardani (Sapienza, University of Roma)

Co-authors

Angelo Cruciani (Sapienza, University of Roma) Antonio D'Addabbo (Institute Néel, Grenoble, France) Carlo Bucci (INFN-LNGS, Assergi, Italy) Carlo Cosmelli (INFN Roma and Sapienza, University of Roma) Claudia Tomei (INFN Rome, Italy) Davide Pinci (Sapienza, University of Roma and INFN-Roma) Dr Elia Battistelli (Sapienza, University of Roma) Fabio Bellini (INFN Roma and Sapienza, University of Roma) Marco Vignati (Sapienza, University of Roma) Maria Gabriella Castellano (IFN-CNR, Rome, Italy) Martino Calvo (Néel institute, Genoble, France) Paolo De Bernardis (Sapienza, University of Roma) Sergio di Domizio (INFN and University of Genova, Italy) Silvia Masi (Sapienza, University of Roma) alessandro coppolecchia (Sapienza, University of Roma) ivan colantoni (IFN-CNR, Rome, Italy)

Presentation materials