May 1, 2005 Conference paper Open Access

RESULTS FROM CUORICINO AND PROSPECTS FOR CUORE

Oliviero Cremonesi; A. Giuliani; S. Pirro; Edoardo Pasca; E. Guardincerri; E. Olivieri; G. Pessina; Reina H. Maruyama; I. G. Irastorza; S. Morganti; L. Torres; Stefano Toffanin; R. J. McDonald; Monica Sisti; R. J. Creswick; E. E. Haller; Simone Capelli; C. Brofferio; N. Xu; Raffaele Ardito; Jeffrey W. Beeman; Giorgio Frossati; C. Cosmelli; E. Previtali; A. Nucciotti; P. Gorla; F. Ferroni; D. R. Artusa; F. T. Avignone; M. J. Dolinski; T. D. Gutierrez; M. Pedretti; E. Longo; P. Ottonello; C. Bucci; L. Carbone; M. Balata; Marco Pallavicini; F. Bellini; A. R. Smith; G. Ventura; F. Capozzi; B. Quiter; E. Palmieri; M. Pavan; Samuele Sangiorgio; A. de Waard; C. Rosenfeld; C. Gargiulo; Marco Barucci; E. Fiorini; Eric B. Norman; Lara Risegari; S. Cebrián; Giulio Maier; C. Arnaboldi; H. A. Farach; I. C. Bandac; Stefano Nisi

CUORE will be an observatory for rare events consisting of a tightly packed array of TeO2 bolometers, with a total mass of similar to 740 kg, operating in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory. A first step towards CUORE is CUORICINO, a running experiment with 40.7 kg of TeO2. Present results from CUORICINO for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Te-130 will be presented here (T-1/2(0 nu) >= 1.0x10(24) y, < m(nu)> <= 0.26-1.4 eV at 90% C.L.). The status of CUORE preparation and its physics potential, including dark matter searches, will be shown.