|
Wright Lab researchers, part of an international collaboration called the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE), are searching for evidence of a rare particle process called neutrinoless double-beta decay. Finding it would have profound implications for understanding neutrinos — the ghostly, plentiful particles that pass through most matter in the universe without being affected themselves. The process might also help explain why there is more matter in the universe than antimatter (which has the same mass as matter, but an opposite electric charge). While the new result did not show evidence of neutrinoless double-beta decay, it yielded a better idea of a neutrino’s mass during such a process. The CUORE group at Yale has been responsible for the design, construction, and commissioning of the CUORE Detector Calibration System, in the analysis and simulation of CUORE and CUORE-0 data, and in research and development for CUPID, the successor to CUORE. Read more. |