Prospects of a Solar Axion Search with CUORE
ORAL
Abstract
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an array of 988 TiO2 crystal bolometers currently operating at Gran Sasso National Laboratory. The primary analysis of CUORE is to search for the ultra-rare process of neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) in Te-130, which has an energy region of interest (ROI) of 2490-2575 keV. As an extremely low background experiment with high energy resolution and exposure, CUORE has the potential to perform other rare-event searches such as for solar axions or Axion Like Particles (ALPs). Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate that also provides a solution for the QCD Strong CP problem. This talk will discuss the prospects of performing a search in CUORE data for solar axions from the Fe-57 transition, which would produce a signal at 14.4 keV. In this talk, I will also discuss the analysis tools for processing and analyzing data that have been developed to enable analyses in CUORE below 100 keV.
*We would like to acknowledge support from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science contract No. DE-SC0019368 and DE-SC0012654 and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1752134.
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Presenters
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Samantha Pagan
- Yale University