Donatella Tozzi headshot.

Donatella Tozzi

Postdoctoral Associate
CUORE/CUPID
Yale Physics Department

Bio: Donatella Tozzi is working on the development, construction, and installation of the muon veto system for the CUORE/CUPID experiment, as well as on data taking analysis.

Donatella studied Physics at La Sapienza University in Rome, where she obtained her undergraduate degree and completed her Ph.D. in Physics. During her Ph.D., she worked on the CUPID and CYGNO experiments. 

For CUPID she contributed to the design and realization of the Water Cherenkov detector used as muon veto and neutron shield. She worked on GEANT4 simulations to study the performance of the system and on the assembly and testing of detector prototypes. She analyzed the data collected during dedicated test beams and cosmic rays stand. 

For the CYGNO experiment, she was responsible for the radiopurity screening of materials and components for the final prototype. 

Contact Info

donatella.tozzi@yale.edu

Experiments

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

CUORE & CUPID

Science goal: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay, which could answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.

Group involvement: Yale is responsible for detector calibration, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds, double beta decay analysis, & the search for solar axions. Maruyama and Karsten Heeger are CO-PIs of CUORE & CUPID.

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