Progress on Track-like Analyses with CUORE

ORAL

Abstract

CUORE (the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is a segmented detector array, primarily searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 130Te with cryogenic calorimeters. Instrumenting approximately 1 m3 in volume, CUORE's size and geometry allow for the detection and reconstruction of through-going high-energy particles, such as cosmic ray muons which survive the journey underground. This presentation provides an overview on the analysis techniques and current status of studying muon tracks and muon-induced backgrounds in situ with CUORE. Such studies have applications towards both improving our understanding of detector response, and validating background projections for the forthcoming CUPID experiment. Additionally, these techniques enable searches for exotic track-like phenomena, and we report on a search for Beyond-the-Standard Model fractionally charged particles using the first tonne-year of CUORE's exposure.

Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12380

Presenters

  • Daniel Mayer

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Authors

  • Daniel Mayer

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT