7–13 Sept 2025
Hermitage Hotel, Isola D'Elba
Europe/Rome timezone

Exploring keV-scale physics with CUORE: a new window for dark matter searches

11 Sept 2025, 16:30
30m
Hermitage Hotel, Isola D'Elba

Hermitage Hotel, Isola D'Elba

57037 Portoferraio Isola d’Elba (Li) Italy
Talk Dark Matter (Its nature: Theory, Observations, Detection, Production at accelerators) Afternoon session

Speaker

Anastasiia Shaikina (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Initially designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay, the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment also offers a unique opportunity to explore potential dark matter signals at the keV-scale. Leveraging over 2 tonne·yr of TeO$_2$ exposure, we optimized data processing and event-selection techniques, achieving stable detector performance and effective event reconstruction down to thresholds as low as 3 keV. CUORE’s large exposure, segmented detector structure, ultra-low-background environment, and excellent energy resolution enable sensitive searches for cosmic axions originating from the galactic halo, solar axions, and WIMP-induced annual modulation signals. We present our advanced low-energy analysis methods, current status, and future prospects of these ongoing dark matter searches.

References arXiv:2505.23955

Authors

Anastasiia Shaikina (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) The CUORE Collaboration

Presentation materials