[EN] A new method to tag the barium daughter in the double-beta decay of Xe-136 is reported. Using the technique of single molecule fluorescent imaging (SMFI), individual barium dication (Ba++) resolution at a transparent ...
Henriques, C.A.O.; Amedo, P.; Teixeira, J. M. R.; González-Díaz, D.; Azevedo, C.D.R.; Para, A.; Martín-Albo,J.; Saa Hernandez, A.; Gómez-Cadenas, J. J.; Nygren, D. R.; Monteiro, C.M.B.; Adams, C.; Álvarez, V.; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I.J.; Lopez-March, N.; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Rodríguez, J.; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco(American Physical Society, 2022-04-07)
[EN] We present evidence of non-excimer-based secondary scintillation in gaseous xenon, obtained using both the NEXT-White time projection chamber (TPC) and a dedicated setup. Detailed comparison with first-principle ...
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 ...