Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
2013-07-30 v2
Abstract
NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the Xe isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc in Spain, and it will begin operations in 2015. The NEXT detector concept provides an energy resolution better than 1% FWHM and a topological signal that can be used to reduce the background. Furthermore, the NEXT technology can be extrapolated to a 1-ton scale experiment.
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@article{arxiv.1307.3914,
title = {Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment},
author = {The NEXT Collaboration and J. J. Gómez-Cadenas and V. Álvarez and F. I. G. M. Borges and S. Cárcel and J. Castel and S. Cebrián and A. Cervera and C. A. N. Conde and T. Dafni and T. H. V. T. Dias and J. Díaz and M. Egorov and R. Esteve and P. Evtoukhovitch and L. M. P. Fernandes and P. Ferrario and A. L. Ferreira and E. D. C. Freitas and V. M. Gehman and A. Gil and A. Goldschmidt and H. Gómez and D. González-Díaz and R. M. Gutiérrez and J. Hauptman and J. A. Hernando Morata and D. C. Herrera and F. J. Iguaz and I. G. Irastorza and M. A. Jinete and L. Labarga and A. Laing and I. Liubarsky and J. A. M. Lopes and D. Lorca and M. Losada and G. Luzón and A. Marí and J. Martín-Albo and A. Martínez and T. Miller and A. Moiseenko and F. Monrabal and C. M. B. Monteiro and F. J. Mora and L. M. Moutinho and J. Muñoz Vidal and H. Natal da Luz and G. Navarro and M. Nebot-Guinot and D. Nygren and C. A. B. Oliveira and R. Palma and J. Pérez and J. L. Pérez Aparicio and J. Renner and L. Ripoll and A. Rodríguez and J. Rodríguez and F. P. Santos and J. M. F. dos Santos and L. Segui and L. Serra and D. Shuman and A. Simón and C. Sofka and M. Sorel and J. F. Toledo and A. Tomás and J. Torrent and Z. Tsamalaidze and J. F. C. A. Veloso and J. A. Villar and R. C. Webb and J. White and N. Yahlali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3914},
year = {2013}
}
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Submitted to Advances in High Energy Physics, Special Issue