NUCLEUS is an experiment for a precision measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) of nuclei. This process is a tool to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model and to understand the properties of its most elusive particles, neutrinos. The international collaboration developed cryogenic detectors with record-low energy threshold. The exeriment is under commissionging and is going to be operated at the Chooz nuclear power plant in France. This nuclear reactor will deliver a large flux of anti-neutrinos with energies of a few MeV, enabling the study of CEνNS with high statistics.

BULLKID is an innovative detector to search for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and GeV/sub-GeV Dark Matter interactions. It implements an unique technology to easily reach large target masses and low energy thresholds, by exploiting the high multiplexing capabilities of superconducting kinetic inductance detectors deposited on monolithic arrays of cubic absorbers carved in silicon wafers. We are currently designing a Dark Matter experiment implementing 2000+ absorbers. The program is supported by the ERC-CoG grant "DANAE".

CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) studies the possible neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) of ¹³⁰Te with a sensitivity to a half life of 1x10²⁶ yr (68% C.L.), which corresponds to an effective neutrino mass of less than 100 meV. The primary physics goal of CUORE is to determine whether 0νββ occurs and, if so, to determine the half-life of the process, the Majorana/Dirac nature of the neutrino, the neutrino mass scale, and mass hierarchy. CUORE is currently taking data in Hall A at LNGS. The CUORE detector is a tightly packed array of 988 cryogenic TeO₂ bolometers, of 750 g each, for a total mass of 741 kg of TeO₂. The CUORE detector is housed in a specially built cryostat and cooled to about 10 mK by a pulse-tube-assisted dilution refrigerator.

CALDER (Cryogenic wide-Area Light Detectors with Excellent Resolution) contributes in settling an important issues that particle physics is now facing: Is the neutrino a standard particle or is it equal to its own antiparticle, as predicted by Ettore Majorana? The answer is of fundamental importance in the global framework of particle interactions and in cosmology, and could come from the observation of a rare nuclear process called "neutrinoless double beta decay". CALDER developed high-sensitivity and fast cryogenic light detectors for the identification of double beta decay in cryogenic bolometers, for application in future experiments. The technology is based on superconducting Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) which feature the fastest response time in the field. CALDER was supported by an ERC-StG.

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