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PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.93.045503
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- National Science Foundation [NSF-PHY-0605119, NSF-PHY-0500337, NSF-PHY-0855314, NSF-PHY-0902171, NSF-PHY-0969852, NSF-PHY-1307204, NSF-PHY-1314881, NSF-PHY-1401832, NSF-PHY-1404205]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- University of Wisconsin Foundation
- Yale University
- US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science [DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC52-07NA27344, DE-SC0012654]
- DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics [DE-FG02-08ER41551, DE-FG03-00ER41138]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1404205] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1401832] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We describe in detail the methods used to obtain the lower bound on the lifetime of neutrinoless double-beta (0 nu beta beta) decay in Te-130 and the associated limit on the effective Majorana mass of the neutrino using the CUORE-0 detector. CUORE-0 is a bolometric detector array located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso that was designed to validate the background reduction techniques developed for CUORE, a next-generation experiment scheduled to come online in 2016. CUORE-0 is also a competitive 0 nu beta beta decay search in its own right and functions as a platform to further develop the analysis tools and procedures to be used in CUORE. These include data collection, event selection and processing, as well as an evaluation of signal efficiency. In particular, we describe the amplitude evaluation, thermal gain stabilization, energy calibration methods, and the analysis event selection used to create our final 0 nu beta beta search spectrum. We define our high level analysis procedures, with emphasis on the new insights gained and challenges encountered. We outline in detail our fitting methods near the hypothesized 0 nu beta beta decay peak and catalog the main sources of systematic uncertainty. Finally, we derive the 0 nu beta beta decay half-life limits previously reported for CUORE-0, T-1/2(0 nu) > 2.7 x 10(24) yr, and in combination with the Cuoricino limit, T-1/2(0 nu) > 4.0 x 10(24) yr.
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