Early in 2008, PSL began the design of a detector calibration system (DCS) for the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) in Italy, with UW-Madison Assistant Professor Karsten Heeger and others of the UW-Madison Physics Department. CUORE is intended to improve measurements of mass of the electron neutrino well beyond current bounds. PSL has been charged with building detector calibration system units, which lower and raise to known positions under independent control 12 strings of 29 weakly radioactive calibration sources through bent guide tubes.

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