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Summary
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is an Italian particle physics laboratory with the goal of detecting neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in 130Te. It was preceded by the CUORICINO prototype and CUORE-0 test. CUORE is located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, located in the historical Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga. CUORE was constructed so as to minimize radioactive contamination. CUORE set a record for the lowest temperature maintained over a period of 15 days. CUORE features collaboration from various institutions and funding from the US and Europe. CUORE is conducting research into the ABSuRD project and enriched crystals. CUORE holds "Open Days" to generate public interest.

Major Points
For the most part, this is a well-done article. It covers a lot of information that is relevant to the article's subject; references a number of articles; and is styled and structured appropriately for a Wikipedia article. It is clearly a massive improvement over the current Wikipedia page for CUORE.

While there are a sufficient number of links to other Wikipedia articles in the introduction, the rest of the article is severely lacking in these links. There are also some sections, such as the CUORE (under History) and Above-ground Facilities, which lack citations. Additionally, some of the citations in the article are naked URLs that must be formatted correctly.

It may be a good idea to elaborate upon the sentence "It also can search for axion signals" in the introduction to explain why this is important to CUORE's goal because, as it currently stands, it feels tacked-on and abrupt.

The author may want to consider whether or not the paragraph beginning with "In September 2014" should remain in the introduction. The rest of the introduction explains what CUORE is (i.e. what would belong in an introduction), while this one single paragraph is about one of CUORE's accomplishments. This content is also elaborated in its own section later on, so content would not be lost by removing it from the introduction.

The history of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga, while interesting, is not relevant to an article on CUORE. This information would be better off in a separate article entirely about the park, and this article could link to that article.

I am not certain whether or not identifying the CUORE spokespeople is necessary for a Wikipedia article. This may be up to the author's discretion.

Minor Points
The wording of the phrase "a process not yet ever detected" feels awkward. A possible suggestion is "a process that has yet to be detected".

The sentence beginning with "This is relevant to many topics," which serves as the bigger picture for CUORE, may be better placed at the end of the paragraph. The expletive "This is" should also be altered accordingly.

The phrase "from several countries including the US" needs a comma after "countries."

If it is not explained in the article for Roman lead shields, perhaps the article could benefit from briefly explaining why these shields are useful to CUORE experiments.

The Experiment Timeline section might be better placed as a subsection under History.

See Also is for links to other Wikipedia articles, not to other websites. The link to the LNGS Website should be moved down to the Links (possibly renamed External Links) section.

--PeabodySam (talk) 00:28, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Summary
The article is about the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE), a particle physics laboratory located in Italy. The introduction describes the main research being conducted as involving the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, using a tellurium dioxide crystal bolometer-thermistor detector. Research in this subject is important for a variety studies in particle physics.

Throughout the original article, an overview of various key topics are provided, including particle detector types present at the facility, and experimental results.

The author has made significant contributions to the section on research and development, elaborating upon the topic of ABSuRD, and describing the role of enriched crystals in the development of the research facility. The former involves the development of a scintillating bolometer, to veto ionizing background radiation. The latter is about the use of enriched crystals of tellurium dioxide to improve research performance.

Multiple other sections have also been added by the author, and provide a comprehensive overview of the facilities themselves, construction, and collaboration with other institutions and funding organizations. The author discusses the various types of facilities that are above-ground and underground, along with how construction of the facility was specially designed to reduce and isolate radioactive contamination. Both institutional collaboration and funding are internationally based, but involve primarily the United States and Italy. A timeline, which is currently in development, will give further background on the history of CUORE.

Major Points
The additions made by the author to the article on CUORE are comprehensive and follow the expected format of a Wikipedia article. Some issues that are present in the article's current state include certain sections lacking enough content, though this will likely be resolved in later edits made by the author. Examples include the section on public outreach, which only provides a brief overview of one instance of interacting with the public. The subsection of "enriched crystals" under research and development does not discuss how the crystals could potentially benefit research efficacy, and could use additional details.

Also, the section on collaboration is rather bulky, and could use additional formatting. The list of institutions could be placed in a table format, or at least be coupled with some sort of description as to how each institution contributed to research at CUORE. In its current state, this section is only a list of institutions, the significance of which is difficult to follow. As each institution has had some role in a publication in collaboration with CUORE, describing some of these findings could more effective in conveying the international nature of the research conducted.

Although the Wikipedia article on CERN (which can be used as a reference), has a section on funding, the same section in the author's article on CUORE lacks context and organization. The average reader would require additional context to understand the relevance of the provided grant and contact numbers. Possibly, describing the ways the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy have supported CUORE (which construction projects, what studies) would be more effective.

Minor Points
The sections on history and results both have the same format with regards to subheadings; it may be beneficial to combine both sections into one, for conciseness.

Also, more links to other Wikipedia articles should be present, URL references should be cited properly, and the "See Also" section should be expanded on, and include only Wikipedia links.

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