@article{beb7a762276d408a9c92fc63c83683cc,
title = "Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay",
abstract = "Abstract: NEXT-100 is an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay of 136Xe. The detector possesses two features of great value for 0νββ searches: energy resolution better than 1% FWHM at the Q value of 136Xe and track reconstruction for the discrimination of signal and background events. This combination results in excellent sensitivity, as discussed in this paper. Material-screening measurements and a detailed Monte Carlo detector simulation predict a background rate for NEXT-100 of at most 4 × 10−4 counts keV−1 kg−1 yr−1. Accordingly, the detector will reach a sensitivity to the 0νββ-decay half-life of 2.8 × 1025 years (90% CL) for an exposure of 100 kg·year, or 6.0 × 1025 years after a run of 3 effective years.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]",
keywords = "Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), Rare decay",
author = "{The NEXT collaboration} and J. Mart{\'i}n-Albo and {Mu{\~n}oz Vidal}, J. and P. Ferrario and M. Nebot-Guinot and G{\'o}mez-Cadenas, {J. J.} and V. {\'A}lvarez and Azevedo, {C. D.R.} and Borges, {F. I.G.} and S. C{\'a}rcel and Carri{\'o}n, {J. V.} and S. Cebri{\'a}n and A. Cervera and Conde, {C. A.N.} and J. D{\'i}az and M. Diesburg and R. Esteve and Fernandes, {L. M.P.} and Ferreira, {A. L.} and Freitas, {E. D.C.} and A. Goldschmidt and D. Gonz{\'a}lez-D{\'i}az and Guti{\'e}rrez, {R. M.} and J. Hauptman and Henriques, {C. A.O.} and {Hernando Morata}, {J. A.} and V. Herrero and L. Labarga and A. Laing and P. Lebrun and I. Liubarsky and N. L{\'o}pez-March and D. Lorca and M. Losada and G. Mart{\'i}nez-Lema and A. Mart{\'i}nez and F. Monrabal and Monteiro, {C. M.B.} and Mora, {F. J.} and Moutinho, {L. M.} and P. Novella and D. Nygren and B. Palmeiro and A. Para and M. Querol and J. Renner and L. Ripoll and J. Rodr{\'i}guez and Santos, {F. P.} and {dos Santos}, {J. M.F.} and L. Serra",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016, The Author(s).",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2016",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "5",
}