The NEXT White (NEW) detector

NEXT collaboration

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The NEXT White (NEW) detector

NEXT collaboration

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	P12010
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	13
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010
State	Published - Dec 6 2018

Keywords

Double-beta decay detectors; Particle tracking detectors; Scintillators
Gas
Liquid scintillators); Time projection chambers
Scintillation and light emission processes (solid

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Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics

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