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    Hybrid Architecture for Engineering Magnonic Quantum Networks

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    We show theoretically that a network of superconducting loops and magnetic particles can be used to implement magnonic crystals with tunable magnonic band structures. In our approach, the loops mediate interactions between the particles and allow magnetic excitations to tunnel over long distances. As a result, different arrangements of loops and particles allow one to engineer the band structure for the magnonic excitations. Furthermore, we show how magnons in such crystals can serve as a quantum bus for long-distance magnetic coupling of spin qubits. The qubits are coupled to the magnets in the network by their local magnetic-dipole interaction and provide an integrated way to measure the state of the magnonic quantum network.Comment: Manuscript: 4 pages, 3 figures. Supplemental Material: 9 pages, 4 figures. V2: Published version in PRA: 14 pages + 8 figures. Substantial rearrangement of the content of the previous versio

    Cryogenic light detectors with enhanced performance for rare events physics

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    We have developed and tested a new way of coupling bolometric light detectors to scintillating crystal bolometers based upon simply resting the light detector on the crystal surface, held in position only by gravity. This straightforward mounting results in three important improvements: (1) it decreases the amount of non-active materials needed to assemble the detector, (2) it substantially increases the light collection efficiency by minimizing the light losses induced by the mounting structure, and (3) it enhances the thermal signal induced in the light detector thanks to the extremely weak thermal link to the thermal bath. We tested this new technique with a 16 cm2^2 Ge light detector with thermistor readout sitting on the surface of a large TeO2_2 bolometer. The light collection efficiency was increased by greater than 50\% compared to previously tested alternative mountings. We obtained a baseline energy resolution on the light detector of 20~eV RMS that, together with increased light collection, enabled us to obtain the best α\alpha vs β/γ\beta/\gamma discrimination ever obtained with massive TeO2_2 crystals. At the same time we achieved rise and decay times of 0.8 and 1.6 ms, respectively. This superb performance meets all of the requirements for the CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification) experiment, which is a 1-ton scintillating bolometer follow up to CUORE.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

    TeO2_2 bolometers with Cherenkov signal tagging: towards next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments

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    CUORE, an array of 988 TeO2_2 bolometers, is about to be one of the most sensitive experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Its sensitivity could be further improved by removing the background from α\alpha radioactivity. A few years ago it has been pointed out that the signal from β\betas can be tagged by detecting the emitted Cherenkov light, which is not produced by α\alphas. In this paper we confirm this possibility. For the first time we measured the Cherenkov light emitted by a CUORE crystal, and found it to be 100 eV at the QQ-value of the decay. To completely reject the α\alpha background, we compute that one needs light detectors with baseline noise below 20 eV RMS, a value which is 3-4 times smaller than the average noise of the bolometric light detectors we are using. We point out that an improved light detector technology must be developed to obtain TeO2_2 bolometric experiments able to probe the inverted hierarchy of neutrino masses.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Added referee correction

    New experimental limits on the alpha decays of lead isotopes

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    For the first time a PbWO4 crystal was grown using ancient Roman lead and it was run as a cryogenic detector. Thanks to the simultaneous and independent read-out of heat and scintillation light, the detector was able to discriminate beta/gamma interactions with respect to alpha particles down to low energies. New more stringent limits on the alpha decays of the lead isotopes are presented. In particular a limit of T_{1/2} > 1.4*10^20 y at a 90% C.L. was evaluated for the alpha decay of 204Pb to 200Hg

    Development of a Li2MoO4 scintillating bolometer for low background physics

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    We present the performance of a 33 g Li2MoO4 crystal working as a scintillating bolometer. The crystal was tested for more than 400 h in a dilution refrigerator installed in the underground laboratory of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). This compound shows promising features in the frame of neutron detection, dark matter search (solar axions) and neutrinoless double-beta decay physics. Low temperature scintillating properties were investigated by means of different alpha, beta/gamma and neutron sources, and for the first time the Light Yield for different types of interacting particle is estimated. The detector shows great ability of tagging fast neutron interactions and high intrinsic radiopurity levels (< 90 \muBq/kg for 238-U and < 110 \muBq/kg for 232-Th).Comment: revised versio

    First bolometric measurement of the two neutrino double beta decay of 100^{100}Mo with a ZnMoO4_4 crystals array

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    The large statistics collected during the operation of a ZnMoO4_4 array, for a total exposure of 1.3 kg ⋅\cdot day of 100^{100}Mo, allowed the first bolometric observation of the two neutrino double beta decay of 100^{100}Mo. The observed spectrum of each crystal was reconstructed taking into account the different background contributions due to environmental radioactivity and internal contamination. The analysis of coincidences between the crystals allowed the assignment of constraints to the intensity of the different background sources, resulting in a reconstruction of the measured spectrum down to an energy of ∼\sim300 keV. The half-life extracted from the data is T1/22ν_{1/2}^{2\nu}= [7.15 ±\pm 0.37 (stat) ±\pm 0.66 (syst)] ⋅\cdot 1018^{18} y.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure, Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physic

    First array of enriched Zn82^{82}Se bolometers to search for double beta decay

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    The R&D activity performed during the last years proved the potential of ZnSe scintillating bolometers to the search for neutrino-less double beta decay, motivating the realization of the first large-mass experiment based on this technology: CUPID-0. The isotopic enrichment in 82^{82}Se, the Zn82^{82}Se crystals growth, as well as the light detectors production have been accomplished, and the experiment is now in construction at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). In this paper we present the results obtained testing the first three Zn82^{82}Se crystals operated as scintillating bolometers, and we prove that their performance in terms of energy resolution, background rejection capability and intrinsic radio-purity complies with the requirements of CUPID-0

    Double-beta decay of 130^{130}Te to the first 0+^{+} excited state of 130^{130}Xe with CUORICINO

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    The CUORICINO experiment was an array of 62 TeO2_{2} single-crystal bolometers with a total 130^{130}Te mass of 11.3 11.3\,kg. The experiment finished in 2008 after more than 3 years of active operating time. Searches for both 0ν0\nu and 2ν2\nu double-beta decay to the first excited 0+0^{+} state in 130^{130}Xe were performed by studying different coincidence scenarios. The analysis was based on data representing a total exposure of N(130^{130}Te)⋅\cdott=9.5×1025 9.5\times10^{25}\,y. No evidence for a signal was found. The resulting lower limits on the half lives are T1/22ν(130Te→130Xe∗)>1.3×1023 T^{2\nu}_{1/2}(^{130} Te\rightarrow^{130} Xe^{*})>1.3\times10^{23}\,y (90% C.L.), and T1/20ν(130Te→130Xe∗)>9.4×1023 T^{0\nu}_{1/2}(^{130} Te\rightarrow^{130} Xe^{*})>9.4\times10^{23}\,y (90% C.L.).Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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