The CUORE cryostat: an infrastructure for rare event searches at millikelvin temperatures

Understand

The CUORE experiment is the world's largest bolometric experiment.

• The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals, for a total mass of 742 kg.
• CUORE is presently taking data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te.
• A large custom cryogen-free cryostat allows reaching and maintaining a base temperature of about 10 mK, required for the optimal operation of the detector.