Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment

JJ Gómez Cadenas, V Álvarez… - Advances in High …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 136Xe isotope. It …

Current status and future perspectives of the LUCIFER experiment

JW Beeman, F Bellini, P Benetti… - Advances in High …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In the field of fundamental particle physics, the neutrino has become more and more
important in the last few years, since the discovery of its mass. In particular, the ultimate …

Shape and Pairing Fluctuation Effects on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Nuclear<? format?> Matrix Elements

NL Vaquero, TR Rodríguez, JL Egido - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Nuclear matrix elements (NME) for the most promising candidates to detect neutrinoless
double beta decay have been computed with energy density functional methods including …

First proof of topological signature in the high pressure xenon gas TPC with electroluminescence amplification for the NEXT experiment

P Ferrario, A Laing, N López-March… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract The NEXT experiment aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136
Xe in a high-pressure xenon gas TPC using electroluminescence (EL) to amplify the signal …

The next white (new) detector

F Monrabal, JJ Gómez-Cadenas… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Conceived to host 5 kg of xenon at a pressure of 15 bar in the fiducial volume, the NEXT-
White apparatus is currently the largest high pressure xenon gas TPC using …

Background rejection in NEXT using deep neural networks

J Renner, A Farbin, JM Vidal… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the potential of using deep learning techniques to reject background events
in searches for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure xenon time projection …

Calibration of the NEXT-White detector using 83mKr decays

G Martínez-Lema, JAH Morata, B Palmeiro… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The NEXT-White (NEW) detector is currently the largest radio-pure high-pressure
xenon gas time projection chamber with electroluminescent readout in the world. It has been …

Electron drift and longitudinal diffusion in high pressure xenon-helium gas mixtures

AD McDonald, K Woodruff, B Al Atoum… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report new measurements of the drift velocity and longitudinal diffusion coefficients of
electrons in pure xenon gas and in xenon-helium gas mixtures at 1-9 bar and electric field …

Accurate γ and MeV-electron track reconstruction with an ultra-low diffusion Xenon/TMA TPC at 10 atm

D González-Díaz, V Álvarez, FIG Borges… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We report the performance of a 10 atm Xenon/trimethylamine time projection chamber (TPC)
for the detection of X-rays (30 keV) and γ-rays (0.511–1.275 MeV) in conjunction with the …

Characterisation of NEXT-DEMO using xenon Kα X-rays

D Lorca, J Martín-Albo, A Laing, P Ferrario… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The NEXT experiment aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136 Xe in a
high-pressure xenon gas TPC using electroluminescence (EL) to amplify the signal from …