CUORICINO is being operated successfully at Gran Sasso As an independent experiment: first CUORICINO results (90% CL) with data taken in 2003: As a first step towards CUORE: background analysis and technical performance results are essential to prepare CUORE CUORE R&D is going on, with special attention to the surface contamination problem CUORE will be a next generation DBD experiment able to explore neutrino masses of some tens of meV having a good sensitivity for other rare event searches like the detection of WIMPs S.
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