The CUORE Detectors use beta decaying TeO 2 crystals as low heat capacity bolometers, contained in copper towers, chilled in cryostats to ≈ 10 mK, isolated from environmental thermal, electromagnetic, and particle influences by ultrapure low-radioactivity shielding.
The CUORE Detectors use beta decaying TeO 2 crystals as low heat capacity bolometers, contained in copper towers, chilled in cryostats (dilution refrigerators) to approximately 10 mK. The detectors are isolated from environmental thermal, electromagnetic, and other particle backgrounds by ultrapure low-radioactivity shielding.