出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：CUORE is an experiment intended to investigate rare events like the double
beta decay and the interaction of cold dark matter and solar axions. It consists of a
tightly packed array of 1000 TeO2 bolometers, having a mass of 750 g each, operating in
the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. A rst step towards CUORE
is CUORICINO, an experiment with 40.7 kg of TeO2 running since the beginning of
2003 in Gran Sasso. In this paper, the CUORE project is described, the rst results of
CUORICINO for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te are given, and the physics
potential and prospects of both CUORICINO and CUORE are presented.
