The Hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT experiment
Abstract
The NEXT-100 detector will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe using an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas TPC filled with 100 kg of enriched Xe. An observation of this hypothetical process would establish a Majorana nature for the neutrino and prove the violation of lepton number. A scaled-down prototype, NEXT-DEMO, has been built to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology. NEXT-DEMO includes an energy plane made of PMTs and a tracking plane made of SiPMs. X-ray energy depositions, produced by the de-excitation of xenon atoms after their interaction with gamma rays, have been used to characterize the detector response. With this method, the released energy by gammas coming from Na source has been corrected, achieving an energy resolution of 5.691% FWHM and 1.62% FWHM at the 29.7 keV and 511 keV peaks respectively, which extrapolate to 0.62% FWHM and 0.73% FWHM at Q value of Xenon.
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@article{arxiv.1411.0475,
title = {The Hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT experiment},
author = {D. Lorca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0475},
year = {2019}
}
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Proceedings for the 20th Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2014