NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout
Abstract
The search for neutrinoless double beta decay () remains one of the most compelling experimental avenues for the discovery in the neutrino sector. Electroluminescent gas-phase time projection chambers are well suited to searches due to their intrinsically precise energy resolution and topological event identification capabilities. Scalability to ton- and multi-ton masses requires readout of large-area electroluminescent regions with fine spatial resolution, low radiogenic backgrounds, and a scalable data acquisition system. This paper presents a detector prototype that records event topology in an electroluminescent xenon gas TPC via VUV image-intensified cameras. This enables an extendable readout of large tracking planes with commercial devices that reside almost entirely outside of the active medium.Following further development in intermediate scale demonstrators, this technique may represent a novel and enlargeable method for topological event imaging in .
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@article{arxiv.2304.06091,
title = {NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout},
author = {NEXT Collaboration and N. K. Byrnes and I. Parmaksiz and C. Adams and J. Asaadi and J Baeza-Rubio and K. Bailey and E. Church and D. González-Díaz and A. Higley and B. J. P. Jones and K. Mistry and I. A. Moya and D. R. Nygren and P. Oyedele and L. Rogers and K. Stogsdill and H. Almazán and V. Álvarez and B. Aparicio and A. I. Aranburu and L. Arazi and I. J. Arnquist and S. Ayet and C. D. R. Azevedo and F. Ballester and M. del Barrio-Torregrosa and A. Bayo and J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez and F. I. G. M. Borges and S. Bounasser and S. Cárcel and J. V. Carrión and S. Cebrián and L. Cid and C. A. N. Conde and T. Contreras and F. P. Cossío and E. Dey and G. Díaz and T. Dickel and M. Elorza and J. Escada and R. Esteve and A. Fahs and R. Felkai and L. M. P. Fernandes and P. Ferrario and A. L. Ferreira and F. W. Foss and E. D. C. Freitas and Z. Freixa and J. Generowicz and A. Goldschmidt and J. J. Gómez-Cadenas and R. González and J. Grocott and R. Guenette and J. Haefner and K. Hafidi and J. Hauptman and C. A. O. Henriques and J. A. Hernando Morata and P. Herrero-Gómez and V. Herrero and C. Hervés Carrete and J. Ho and P. Ho and Y. Ifergan and L. Labarga and L. Larizgoitia and P. Lebrun and F Lopez and D. Lopez Gutierrez and N. López-March and R. Madigan and R. D. P. Mano and A. P. Marques and J. Martín-Albo and G. Martínez-Lema and M. Martínez-Vara and Z. E. Meziani and R. L. Miller and F. Monrabal and C. M. B. Monteiro and F. J. Mora and J. Muñoz Vidal and K. E. Navarro and P. Novella and A. Nuñez and E. Oblak and M. Odriozola-Gimeno and J. Palacio and B. Palmeiro and A. Para and J Pelegrin and M. Pérez Maneiro and M. Querol and A. B. Redwine and J. Renner and I. Rivilla and J. Rodríguez and C. Rogero and B. Romeo and C. Romo-Luque and F. P. Santos and J. M. F. dos Santos and A. Simón and S. R. Soleti and M. Sorel and C. Stanford and J. M. R. Teixeira and J. F. Toledo and J. Torrent and A. Usón and J. F. C. A. Veloso and T. T. Vuong and J. Waiton and J. T. White},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06091},
year = {2023}
}
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30 Pages, 22 figures, Updated to match current JINST submission