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Future liquid-xenon (LXe) based observatories for rare processes, such as XLZD, require testing of large components and sub-assemblies in cryogenic liquid or gaseous xenon environments. Here we present results from the stable operation of a…

This paper describes the electronics of NEXT-White (NEW) detector PMT plane, a high pressure xenon TPC with electroluminescent amplification (HPXe-EL) currently operating at the Laboratorio Subterra\'aneo de Canfranc (LSC) in Huesca, Spain.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 V. Álvarez , V. Herrero , R. Esteve , A. Laing , J. Rodríguez , M. Querol , F. Monrabal , J. F. Toledo , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas

LEGEND, the Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ Decay, is a ton-scale experimental program to search for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in the isotope $^{76}$Ge with an unprecedented…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-02 F. Edzards , M. Willers , A. Alborini , L. Bombelli , D. Fink , M. P. Green , M. Laubenstein , S. Mertens , G. Othman , D. C. Radford , S. Schönert , G. Zuzel

AXEL is a high pressure xenon gas TPC detector being developed for neutrinoless double-beta decay search. We use the proportional scintillation mode with a new electroluminescence light detection system to achieve high energy resolution in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-27 S. Ban , K. D. Nakamura , S. Akiyama , M. Hirose , A. K. Ichikawa , Y. Ishiyama , A. Minamino , K. Miuchi , T. Nakaya , H. Sekiya , S. Tanaka , K. Ueshima , S. Yanagita

The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) is intended to investigate the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe, which requires a severe suppression of potential backgrounds. An extensive screening and material selection process is…

The NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) project is an international collaboration aimed at finding evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay using gaseous xenon. The current phase of the project involves the construction and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-26 S. R. Soleti

A high pressure xenon gas time projection chamber with electroluminescent amplification (EL HPGXe TPC) searching for the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay offers: excellent energy resolution ($0.5-0.7\%$ FWHM at the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 N. Lopez-March

Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay continue to expand our understanding of the lepton sector, with experiments now pursuing ton-scale target masses with sensitivity to $m_{\beta\beta}$ covering the allowed parameter space for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-10 A. Mastbaum , F. Psihas , J. Zennamo

Several efforts are ongoing for the development of spherical gaseous time projection chamber detectors for the observation of rare phenomena such as weakly interacting massive particles or neutrino interactions. The proposed detector,…

The International Linear Collider (ILC) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) transverse space-point resolution goal is 100 microns for all tracks including stiff 90 degree tracks with the full 2 meter drift. A Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-26 M. Dixit , D. Attie , A. Bellerive , K. Boudjemline , P. Colas , P. Giganon , I. Giomataris , V. Lepeltier , S. Liu , J. -P. Martin , K. Sachs , Y. Shin , S. Turnbull

The HERA-B Outer Tracker is a large detector with 112674 drift chamber channels. It is exposed to a particle flux of up to 2x10^5/cm^2/s thus coping with conditions similar to those expected for the LHC experiments. The front-end readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Albrecht et al.

Radial time projection chambers (TPC), already employed in the search for rare phenomena such as light Dark Matter candidate, could provide a new detection approach for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay ($\beta\beta0\nu$). The…

HPgTPCs have benefits such as low energy threshold, magnetisability, and 4$\pi$ acceptance, making them ideal for neutrino experiments such as DUNE. We present the design of an FPGA-based solution optimised for ND-GAr, which is part of the…

Micromegas is a type of micro-pattern gaseous detector currently under R&D for applications in rare event search experiments. Here we report the performance of a Micromegas structure constructed with a micromesh thermo-bonded to a readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-13 Yuehuan Wei , Liang Guan , Zhiyong Zhang , Qing Lin , Xiaolian Wang , Kaixuan Ni , Tianchi Zhao

We report the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe from the PandaX-4T experiment with a 3.7-tonne natural xenon target. The data reconstruction and the background modeling are optimized in the MeV energy region. A blind…

The surface detector (SD) array of the Pierre Auger Observatory containing at present 1680 water Cherenkov detectors spread over an area of 3000 km^2 started to operate since 2004. The currently used Front-End Boards are equipped with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-10 Zbigniew Szadkowski

Micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) with micro pixel chamber($\mu$-PIC) readout was developed for the detection of the three-dimensional fine(sub-m illimeter) tracks of charged particles. We developed a two-dimensional position…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Miuchi , Hidetoshi Kubo , Tsutomu Nagayoshi , Atsuhiko Ochi , Reiko Orito , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Masaru Ueno

We propose a major upgrade to the existing PandaX-4T experiment in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The new experiment, PandaX-xT, will be a multi-ten-tonne liquid xenon, ultra-low background, and general-purpose observatory. The…