TY - JOUR
T1 - The NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
AU - Simón, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain and FEDER under grants CONSOLIDER-Ingenio 2010 CSD2008-0037 (CUP), FIS2014-53371-C04 and the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2014-0398; GVA under grant PROMETEO/2016/120. Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2020/1/20
Y1 - 2020/1/20
N2 - The goal of the NEXT experiment is the observation of the neutrinoless double beta decay in 136Xe using a gaseous xenon TPC with electroluminescent amplification and specialized photodetector arrays for calorimetry and tracking. After a prototyping period (2009-2014) where the technique was demonstrated, the Collaboration has completed the construction and started the operation of its first phase (NEXT-White or NEW) in the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc, in the Spanish Pyrenees, with the objectives of measuring in-situ the NEXT background model and the two-neutrino mode of the double beta decay under a radiopure regime. After running NEW, the Collaboration will operate a bigger detector, NEXT-100, which will look for the neutrinoless decay mode.
AB - The goal of the NEXT experiment is the observation of the neutrinoless double beta decay in 136Xe using a gaseous xenon TPC with electroluminescent amplification and specialized photodetector arrays for calorimetry and tracking. After a prototyping period (2009-2014) where the technique was demonstrated, the Collaboration has completed the construction and started the operation of its first phase (NEXT-White or NEW) in the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc, in the Spanish Pyrenees, with the objectives of measuring in-situ the NEXT background model and the two-neutrino mode of the double beta decay under a radiopure regime. After running NEW, the Collaboration will operate a bigger detector, NEXT-100, which will look for the neutrinoless decay mode.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012046
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012046
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85079090920
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 1342
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012046
T2 - 15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2017
Y2 - 24 June 2017 through 28 June 2017
ER -