In the center of a   raft in cardinal Italy , there ’s a new neutrino demodulator that hopes to answer one of the biggest questions in the creation : why is matter a stack more common than antimatter ?

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events ( CUORE ) has been operating for just two months and researchers have now released their preliminary solution   onArXivand relegate them to the daybook Physical Review Letters .

“ This is the first trailer of what an instrument this size is able to do , ” sound out Oliviero Cremonesi , a fourth-year faculty scientist at INFN and spokesperson for the CUORE collaboration , in astatement .

The legal document   make up 19 bull cases each hosting 52 tellurium dioxide cubes and is cool down down to just 10 milliKelvins . CUORE is an unbelievably sensitive thermometer . It needs the sensitiveness to detect the rare event   it ’s design to discover , like neutrinoless two-fold genus Beta decline . The in vogue resultant intimate that in a single particle this would   only happen once every 100 septillion ( 1 pursue by 26 zeros ) years . Since we do n’t have that kind of clock time , the sensing element need to be passing large .

If neutrinoless double beta decay subsist , it intend that neutrinos are their own antiparticles . While it ’s not an unheard property in physics ( the Higgs Boson is its own antiparticle too ) , if this is the case for neutrinos , it mean that a property known as the conservation of lepton number is violated . That would in reality excuse why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter .

The polar example would also be exciting . If neutrinos   are n’t their own antiparticles , it intend we have drop two type of neutrinos in all our observations . The observations of CUORE could finally render a unequivocal answer to this interrogative sentence .

“ We are tantalizingly close to completely unexplored territory and there is capital possibility for discovery . It is an exciting time to be on the experiment . ” Lindley Winslow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , who organize the psychoanalysis of the CUORE data , said .

CUORE , which means heart in Italian , is site within the Gran   Sasso , the improbable mountain in the Appennini chain . The collaboration has 150 members from 25 external foundation .