CUORE: The first bolometric experiment at the ton scale for rare decay searches

Author(s): Adams, DQ; Alduino, C; Alfonso, K; Avignone, FT; Azzolini, O; Bari, G; Bellini, F; Benato, G; Bersani, A; Biassoni, M; Branca, A; Brofferio, C; Bucci, C; Caminata, A; Campani, A; Canonica, L; Cao, XG; Capelli, S; Cappelli, L; Cardani, L; Carniti, P; Casali, N; Cassina, L; Chiesa, D; Chott, N; Clemenza, M; Copello, S; Cosmelli, C; Cremonesi, O; Creswick, RJ; Cushman, JS; D'Addabbo, A; D'Aguanno, D; Dafinei, I; Davis, CJ; Dell'Oro, S; Deninno, MM; Domizio, SD; Vacri, MLD; Dompe, V; Drobizhev, A; Fang, DQ; Faverzani, M; Ferri, E; Ferroni, F; Fiorini, E; Franceschi, MA; Freedman, SJ; Fujikawa, BK; Giachero, A; Gironi, L; Giuliani, A; Gladstone, L; Gorla, P; Gotti, C; Gutierrez, TD; Han, K; Heeger, KM; Hennings-Yeomans, R; Huang, RG; Huang, HZ; Johnston, J; Keppel, G; Kolomensky, YG; Leder, A; Ligi, C; Ma, YG; Marini, L; Martinez, M | Abstract: © 2018 Elsevier B.V. The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay that has been able to reach the 1-ton scale. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers. The construction of the experiment and, in particular, the installation of all towers in the cryostat was completed in August 2016 and data taking started in spring 2017. In this contribution the achievement of the commissioning phase and the performance of the detector and the cryostat during the first physics run will be presented.