Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ¹³⁰Te with CUORE

Figure 1

(a) Illustration of the planned 19-tower CUORE detector array. (b) Close-up of a single tower floor showing four TeO₂ crystals held inside their copper frame by PTFE spacers. (c) Schematic diagram of an individual TeO₂ crystal bolometer. Each crystal is instrumented with a heater (H) and a thermistor (T); the PTFE spacers and sensor readout wires act as weak thermal links (L) between the crystal and the thermal bath of the copper frame.

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