Status of R&D on Micromegas for Rare Event Searches: The T-REX project
Abstract
The T-REX project aims at developing novel readout techniques for Time Projection Chambers in experiments searching for rare events. The enhanced performance of the latest Micromegas readouts in issues like energy resolution, gain stability, homogeneity, material budget, combined with low background techniques, is opening new windows of opportunity for their application in this field. Here we review the latest results regarding the use and prospects of Micromegas readouts in axion physics (CAST and the future helioscope), as well as the R&D carried out within NEXT, to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay.
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@article{arxiv.1109.4021,
title = {Status of R&D on Micromegas for Rare Event Searches: The T-REX project},
author = {I. G. Irastorza and J. Castel and S. Cebrián and T. Dafni and G. Fanourakis and E. Ferrer-Ribas and D. Fortuño and L. Esteban and J. Galán and J. A. García and A. Gardikiotis and J. G. Garza and T. Geralis and I. Giomataris and H. Gómez and D. C. Herrera and F. J. Iguaz and G. Luzón and J. P. Mols and A. Ortiz and T. Papaevangelou and A. Rodríguez and J. Ruz and L. Seguí and A. Tomás and T. Vafeiadis and S. C. Yildiz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4021},
year = {2015}
}
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Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter (CYGNUS 2011), Aussois, France, 8-10 June 2011