Status of the NEXT project

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Status of the NEXT project

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The NEXT program is developing the technology of high-pressure Xe gas Time Projection Chambers with electroluminescent amplification (HPXe-EL) for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in ¹³⁶Xe. After completing the first phase of the program with prototypes containing ∼1 kg Xe, the collaboration presently operates the NEXT-White demonstrator. NEXT-White is a 1:2 model NEXT-100, planned for construction in 2020, which will serve as a 100 kg-scale demonstrator of the HPXe-EL technology towards detector masses on the ton-scale. This contribution focuses on the latest results from NEXT-White on energy resolution, topology and background rate, and briefly discusses the future plans of the collaboration.

Original language	American English
Article number	162126
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	958
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.04.080
State	Published - 1 Apr 2020

Keywords

Neutrinoless double beta decay
Rare-event searches
TPC

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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