Calibration of the NEXT-White detector using $^{83m}\mathrm{Kr}$ decays
Abstract
The NEXT-White (NEW) detector is currently the largest radio-pure high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber with electroluminescent readout in the world. NEXT-White has been operating at Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc (LSC) since October 2016. This paper describes the calibrations performed with decays during a long run taken from March to November 2017 (Run II). Krypton calibrations are used to correct for the finite drift-electron lifetime as well as for the dependence of the measured energy on the event position which is mainly caused by variations in solid angle coverage. After producing calibration maps to correct for both effects we measure an excellent energy resolution for 41.5 keV point-like deposits of (4.553 0.010 (stat.) 0.324 (sys.)) % FWHM in the full chamber and (3.804 0.013 (stat.) 0.112 (sys.)) % FWHM in a restricted fiducial volume. Using naive 1/ scaling, these values translate into resolutions of (0.516 0.0014 (stat.) 0.0421 (sys.)) % FWHM and (0.4943 0.0017 (stat.) 0.0146 (sys.)) % FWHM at the energy of xenon double beta decay (2458 keV), well within range of our target value of 1%.
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@article{arxiv.1804.01780,
title = {Calibration of the NEXT-White detector using $^{83m}\mathrm{Kr}$ decays},
author = {G. Martínez-Lema and J. A. Hernando Morata and B. Palmeiro and A. Botas and P. Ferrario and F. Monrabal and A. Laing and J. Renner and A. Simón and J. J. Gómez-Cadenas and C. Adams and V. Álvarez and L. Arazi and C. D. R. Azevedo and K. Bailey and F. Ballester and J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez and F. I. G. M. Borges and S. Cárcel and J. V. Carrión and S. Cebrián and C. A. N. Conde and J. Díaz and M. Diesburg and J. Escada and R. Esteve and R. Felkai and L. M. P. Fernandes and A. L. Ferreira and E. D. C. Freitas and J. Generowicz and A. Goldschmidt and D. González-Díaz and R. Guenette and R. M. Gutiérrez and K. Hafidi and J. Hauptman and C. A. O. Henriques and A. I. Hernandez and V. Herrero and S. Johnston and B. J. P. Jones and M. Kekic and L. Labarga and P. Lebrun and N. López-March and M. Losada and J. Martín-Albo and A. Martínez and A. D. McDonald and C. M. B. Monteiro and F. J. Mora and J. Muñoz Vidal and M. Musti and M. Nebot-Guinot and P. Novella and D. R. Nygren and A. Para and J. Pérez and M. Querol and J. Repond and S. Riordan and L. Ripoll and J. Rodríguez and L. Rogers and C. Romo and F. P. Santos and J. M. F. dos Santos and C. Sofka and M. Sorel and T. Stiegler and J. F. Toledo and J. Torrent and J. F. C. A. Veloso and R. Webb and J. T. White and N. Yahlalib},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01780},
year = {2018}
}
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20 pages, 18 figures