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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
[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 ...
[EN] 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 Subterraneo de Canfranc ...
[EN] This article describes the event detection system of the NEXT-White detector, a 5 kg high pressure xenon TPC with electroluminescent amplification, located in the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), Spain. The ...