Speaker
Vivek Sharma
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$) is a hypothesized lepton number violating process, the discovery of which would lead to a greater insight into the nature of neutrino mass. CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is a bolometric search for 0$\nu \beta \beta$ in $^{130}$Te. The experiment employs TeO$_2$ crystals as both the possible sources and detectors of this decay. CUORE began data taking in 2017, and has obtained competitive limits on the effective neutrino mass since then. This talk will show the latest results from CUORE for 0$\nu \beta \beta$, as well as searches for other BSM signals.
Author
Vivek Sharma
(University of Pittsburgh)