Gonzalez Diaz, Diego; Álvarez Puerta, Vicente; Borges, F. I. G.; Camargo, M.; Carcel, S.; Cebrian, S.; Cervera, A.; Conde, C. A. N.; Dafni, T.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Fernandes, L. M. P.; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Pérez Aparicio, José Luis; Rodríguez Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Elsevier, 2015-12-21)
We report the performance of a 10 atm Xenon/trimethylamine time projection chamber (TPC) for the detection of X-rays (30 keV) and gamma-rays (0.511-1.275 MeV) in conjunction with the accurate tracking of the associated ...
Kekic, M.; Adams, C.; Woodruff, K.; Renner, J.; Church, E.; Del Tutto, M.; Hernando Morata, J. A.; Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I.J.; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Bailey, K.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2021-01-28)
[EN] Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used state-of-the-art computer vision tools that are becoming increasingly popular in high-energy physics. In this paper, we attempt to understand the potential of CNNs ...
Novella, P.; Sorel, M.; Usón, A.; Adams, C.; Almazán, H.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Aparicio, B.; Aranburu, A. I.; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I.J.; Auria-Luna, F; Ayet, S.; C.D.R. Azevedo; Bailey, K.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2023-09-27)
[EN] The NEXT experiment aims at the sensitive search of the neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe-136, using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers. The NEXT-White detector is the first radiopure ...
[EN] In experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the possibility of identifying the two emitted electrons is a powerful tool in rejecting background events and therefore improving the overall sensitivity ...
[EN] Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. However, the reflectance of PTFE is a function of its thickness. In this work, ...
Henriques, C. A. O.; Monteiro, C. M. B.; Gonzalez-Diaz, D.; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Freitas, E. D. C.; Mano, R. D. P.; Jorge, M. R.; Fernandes, A. F. M.; Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.; Fernandes, L. M. P.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2019-01-03)
[EN] The NEXT experiment aims at searching for the hypothetical neutrinoless double-beta decay from the 136Xe isotope using a high-purity xenon TPC. Efficient discrimination of the events through pattern recognition of the ...
Ferrario, P.; Laing, A.; Lopez-March, N.; Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Borges, F.I.G.; Carcel, S.; Cebrian, S.; Cervera, A.; C.A.N. Conde; Dafni, T.; Diaz, J.; Diesburg, M.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Pérez-Aparicio, José L.; Querol, M.; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2016-01-19)
[EN] The NEXT experiment aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe in a high-pressure xenon gas TPC using electroluminescence (EL) to amplify the signal from ionization. One of the main advantages of this ...
[EN] High pressure xenon Time Projection Chambers (TPC) based on secondary scintillation (electroluminescence) signal amplification are being proposed for rare event detection such as directional dark matter, double electron ...
Azevedo, C.D.R.; Gonzalez-Diaz, D.; Biagi, S. F.; Oliveira, C. A. B.; Henriques, C. A. O.; Escada, J.; Monrabal, F.; Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Alvarez, V.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Querol-Segura, Marc; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] We introduce a simulation framework for the transport of high and low energy electrons in xenon-based optical time projection chambers (OTPCs). The simulation relies on elementary cross sections (electron-atom and ...
Rogers, L.; Jones, B. J. P.; Laing, A.; Pingulkar, S.; Smithers, B.; Woodruff, K.; Adams, C.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I. J.; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Bailey, K.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Benlloch-Rodríguez, J. M.; Borges, F. I. G. M.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(IOP Publishing, 2020-07)
[EN] Xe-136 is used as the target medium for many experiments searching for 0 nu beta beta. Despite underground operation, cosmic muons that reach the laboratory can produce spallation neutrons causing activation of detector ...
[EN] New detector approaches in Positron Emission Tomography imaging will play an important role in reducing costs, lowering administered radiation doses, and improving overall performance. PETALO employs liquid xenon as ...
Freitas, E. D. C.; Fernandes, L. M. P.; Yahlali, N.; Perez, J.; Alvarez, V.; Borges, F. I. G.; Camargo, M.; Carcel, S.; Cebrian, S.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Marí Romero, Antonio Francisco; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Pérez Aparicio, José Luis; Rodríguez Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(IOP Publishing, 2015-02)
We have studied the calibration of PMTs in scintillation detectors, inducing single electron response on the PMT from primary scintillation produced by x-ray interaction. The results agree with those obtained by the commonly ...
Woodruff, K.; Baeza-Rubio, J.; Huerta, D.; Jones, B. J. P.; McDonald, A. D.; Norman, L.; Nygren, D. R.; Adams, C.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I. J.; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Bailey, K.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(IOP Publishing, 2020-04)
[EN] Motivated by the possibility of guiding daughter ions from double beta decay events to single-ion sensors for barium tagging, the NEXT collaboration is developing a program of R&D to test radio frequency (RF) carpets ...
Novella, P.; Palmeiro, B.; Sorel, M.; Usón, A.; Ferrario, P.; Gómez-Cadenas, J. J.; Adams, C.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I.J.; Azevedo, C.D.R.; Bailey, K.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Benlloch-Rodríguez, J. M.; Borges, F. I. G. M.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2019-10-04)
[EN] Natural radioactivity represents one of the main backgrounds in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Within the NEXT physics program, the radioactivity- induced backgrounds are measured with the NEXT-White ...
Cebrian, S.; Perez, J.; Bandac, I.; Labarga, L.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M.; Borges, F. I. G. M.; Botas, A.; Carcel, S.; Carrión, J.V.; Conde, C. A. N.; Diaz, J.; Diesburg, M.; Escada, J.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Querol-Segura, Marc; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(IOP Publishing, 2017-08-21)
[EN] The "Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon Time-Projection Chamber" (NEXT) experiment intends to investigate the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe, and therefore requires a severe suppression of potential backgrounds. ...
Dafni, T.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Bandac, I.; Bettini, A.; Borges, F. I. G. M.; Camargo, M.; Carcel, S.; Cebrian, S.; Cervera, A.; Conde, C. A. N.; Diaz, J.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Fernandes, L. M. P.; Fernandez, M.; Ferrario, P.; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Pérez-Aparicio, José L.; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT), intended to investigate neutrinoless double beta decay, requires extremely low background levels. An extensive material screening and selection process to assess the ...
[EN] Xe-CO2 mixtures are important alternatives to pure xenon in Time Projection Chambers (TPC) based on secondary scintillation (electroluminescence) signal amplification with applications in the important field of rare ...
Martín-Albo, J.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Ferrario, P.; Nebot-Guinot, M.; Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Azevedo, C.D.R.; Borges, F.I.G.; Carcel, S.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Querol, M.; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2016-05-26)
[EN] NEXT-100 is an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta (0¿ßß) decay of 136Xe. The detector possesses two features of great value for 0¿ßß ...
Martinez-Lema, G.; Martinez-Vara, M.; Sorel, M.; Adams, C.; Álvarez-Puerta, Vicente; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I.J.; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Bailey, K.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M.; Borges, F. I. G. M.; Byrnes, N.; Carcel, S.; Carrión, J. V.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Rodriguez-Samaniego, Javier; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(Springer-Verlag, 2021-02-24)
[EN] Double electron capture by proton-rich nuclei is a second-order nuclear process analogous to double beta decay. Despite their similarities, the decay signature is quite di erent, potentially providing a new channel ...