Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles in CUORE

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a ton-scale TeO2 bolometer array operating at a temperature of approximately 10mK. Though CUORE's primary objective is the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, its low energy thresholds and high exposures allow for searches for other rare decays, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Most recently, the development of improved track reconstruction techniques has enabled searches for exotic track-like particles in CUORE. In this talk, we present a direct detection search for a class of BSM particles known as lightly ionizing particles (LIPs), whose charge (q = e/f) is reduced by a factor of f relative to the electron charge. LIPs can be identified by their muon-like tracks but have distinctive energy signatures that result from suppressed interactions with matter. This talk discusses analysis methods and recent progress in the search for lightly ionizing particles within CUORE.