Detalle de: The NEXT White (NEW) detector
| Title | The NEXT White (NEW) detector |
| Abstract |
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 electroluminescent amplification in the world. It is also a 1:2 scale model of the NEXT-100 detector for 136 Xe ββ0ν decay searches, scheduled to start operations in 2019. Both detectors measure the energy of the event using a plane of photomultipliers located behind a transparent cathode. They can also reconstruct the trajectories of charged tracks in the dense gas of the TPC with the help of a plane of silicon photomultipliers located behind the anode. A sophisticated gas system, common to both detectors, allows the high gas purity needed to guarantee a long electron lifetime. NEXT-White has been operating since October 2016 at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. This paper describes the detector and associated infrastructures, as well as the main aspects of its initial operation. |
| Apa Reference | Monrabal, F., Gómez-Cadenas, J., Toledo, J., Laing, A., Álvarez, V., Benlloch-Rodríguez, J., Cárcel, S., Carrión, J., Esteve, R., Felkai, R., Herrero, V., Martínez, A., Musti, M., Querol, M., Rodríguez, J., Simón, A., Sofka, C., Torrent, J., Webb, R., White, J., Adams, C., Arazi, L., Azevedo, C., Bailey, K., Borges, F., Botas, A., Cebrián, S., Conde, C., Díaz, J., Diesburg, M., Escada, J., Fernandes, A., Fernandes, L., Ferrario, P., Ferreira, A., Freitas, E., Generowicz, J., Goldschmidt, A., González-Díaz, D., Guenette, R., Gutiérrez, R., Hafidi, K., Hauptman, J., Henriques, C., Hernandez, A., Morata, J.H., Johnston, S., Jones, B., Kekic, M., Labarga, L., Lebrun, P., López-March, N., Losada, M., Mano, R., Martín-Albo, J., Martínez-Lema, G., McDonald, A., Monteiro, C., Mora, F., Vidal, J.M., Nebot-Guinot, M., Novella, P., Nygren, D., Palmeiro, B., Para, A., Pérez, J., Renner, J., Repond, J., Riordan, S., Ripoll, L., Rogers, L., Romo-Luque, C., Santos, F., Santos, J.d., Sorel, M., Stiegler, T., Veloso, J. & Yahlali, N. (2018). The NEXT White (NEW) detector. Journal of Instrumentation, 13(12), P12010-P12010. 10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010 |
| Doi | 10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010 |
| Publication Date | 6 Dec 2018 |
| Publication Type | Article |
| Researcher | José Vicente Carrión Burguete |
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