21–26 Jun 2026
University of California, Irvine
US/Pacific timezone

Effects of event topology on energy reconstruction in the CUORE TeO2 bolometers

Not scheduled
20m
Conference Center (University of California, Irvine)

Conference Center

University of California, Irvine

Poster Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Poster session 2

Speaker

Aaron Chizhik (University of California, Berkeley)

Description

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a tonne-scale detector designed with the primary physics goal of observing Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$). The discovery of this process would demonstrate that Lepton Number is not a fundamental conserved quantity, and bear implications on the nature of neutrinos being Dirac or Majorana and the effective Majorana mass. The CUORE detector consists of 988 TeO$_2$ crystals bolometers read out by Neutron Transmutation Doped (NTD) Germanium thermistors. Understanding the systematics of energy reconstruction in the crystal bolometers is vital for discriminating background and improving sensitivity at the $0\nu\beta\beta$ region of interest. This poster will discuss the current status of the ongoing analysis on topological dependence in the energy reconstruction and possible microphysical models using high statistics $^{56}$Co calibration data.

Authors

Aaron Chizhik (University of California, Berkeley) Anisha Yeddanapudi (University of Glasgow)

Presentation materials