First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via $0νββ$ Decay of $^{130}$Te
Creators: name: CUORE Collaboration
name: Alduino, C.
name: Alfonso, K.
name: Andreotti, E.
name: Arnaboldi, C.
name: Avignone, F. T.
name: Azzolini, O.
name: Bandac, I.
name: Banks, T. I.
name: Bari, G.
name: Barucci, M.
name: Beeman, J. W.
name: Bellini, F.
name: Benato, G.
name: Bersani, A.
name: Biare, D.
name: Biassoni, M.
name: Branca, A.
name: Brofferio, C.
name: Bryant, A.
name: Buccheri, A.
name: Bucci, C.
name: Bulfon, C.
name: Camacho, A.
name: Caminata, A.
name: Canonica, L.
name: Cao, X. G.
name: Capelli, S.
name: Capodiferro, M.
name: Cappelli, L.
name: Cardani, L.
name: Carniti, P.
name: Carrettoni, M.
name: Casali, N.
name: Cassina, L.
name: Ceruti, G.
name: Chiarini, A.
name: Chiesa, D.
name: Chott, N.
name: Clemenza, M.
name: Copello, S.
name: Cosmelli, C.
name: Cremonesi, O.
name: Crescentini, C.
name: Creswick, R. J.
name: Cushman, J. S.
name: D'Addabbo, A.
name: D'Aguanno, D.
name: Dafinei, I.
name: Davis, C. J.
name: Del Corso, F.
name: Dell'Oro, S.
name: Deninno, M. M.
name: Di Domizio, S.
name: Di Vacri, M. L.
name: Di Paolo, L.
name: Drobizhev, A.
name: Ejzak, L.
name: Faccini, R.
name: Fang, D. Q.
name: Faverzani, M.
name: Ferri, E.
name: Ferroni, F.
name: Fiorini, E.
name: Franceschi, M. A.
name: Freedman, S. J.
name: Fujikawa, B. K.
name: Giachero, A.
name: Gironi, L.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Gladstone, L.
name: Goett, J.
name: Gorla, P.
name: Gotti, C.
name: Guandalini, C.
name: Guerzoni, M.
name: Gutierrez, T. D.
name: Haller, E. E.
name: Han, K.
name: Hansen, E. V.
name: Heeger, K. M.
name: Hennings-Yeomans, R.
name: Hickerson, K. P.
name: Huang, H. Z.
name: Iannone, M.
name: Kadel, R.
name: Keppel, G.
name: Kogler, L.
name: Kolomensky, Yu. G.
name: Leder, A.
name: Ligi, C.
name: Lim, K. E.
name: Ma, Y. G.
name: Maiano, C.
name: Marini, L.
name: Martinez, M.
name: Amaya, C. Martinez
name: Maruyama, R. H.
name: Mei, Y.
name: Moggi, N.
name: Morganti, S.
name: Mosteiro, P. J.
name: Nagorny, S. S.
name: Napolitano, T.
name: Nastasi, M.
name: Nones, C.
name: Norman, E. B.
name: Novati, V.
name: Nucciotti, A.
name: Nutini, I.
name: O'Donnell, T.
name: Olivieri, E.
name: Orio, F.
name: Ouellet, J. L.
name: Pagliarone, C. E.
name: Pallavicini, M.
name: Palmieri, V.
name: Pattavina, L.
name: Pavan, M.
name: Pedretti, M.
name: Pelosi, A.
name: Pessina, G.
name: Pettinacci, V.
name: Piperno, G.
name: Pira, C.
name: Pirro, S.
name: Pozzi, S.
name: Previtali, E.
name: Reindl, F.
name: Rimondi, F.
name: Risegari, L.
name: Rosenfeld, C.
name: Rusconi, C.
name: Sakai, M.
name: Sala, E.
name: Salvioni, C.
name: Sangiorgio, S.
name: Santone, D.
name: Schaeffer, D.
name: Schmidt, B.
name: Schmidt, J.
name: Scielzo, N. D.
name: Singh, V.
name: Sisti, M.
name: Smith, A. R.
name: Stivanello, F.
name: Taffarello, L.
name: Tenconi, M.
name: Terranova, F.
name: Tomei, C.
name: Ventura, G.
name: Vignati, M.
name: Wagaarachchi, S. L.
name: Wang, B. S.
name: Wang, H. W.
name: Welliver, B.
name: Wilson, J.
name: Wilson, K.
name: Winslow, L. A.
name: Wise, T.
name: Zanotti, L.
name: Zhang, G. Q.
name: Zhu, B. X.
name: Zimmermann, S.
name: Zucchelli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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$\cdot$yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of (7.7 $\pm$ 0.5) keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of (0.014 $\pm$ 0.002) counts/(keV$\cdot$kg$\cdot$yr), we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay. The median statistical sensitivity of this search is $7.0\times10^{24}$ yr. Including systematic uncertainties, we place a lower limit on the decay half-life of $T^{0ν}_{1/2}$($^{130}$Te) &gt; $1.3\times 10^{25}$ yr (90% C.L.). Combining this result with those of two earlier experiments, Cuoricino and CUORE-0, we find $T^{0ν}_{1/2}$($^{130}$Te) &gt; $1.5\times 10^{25}$ 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}
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