@article{67a4c55faefc4837aac6e03d4d6613dc,
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 Subterr{\'a}neo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. This paper describes the detector and associated infrastructures, as well as the main aspects of its initial operation.",
keywords = "Double-beta decay detectors; Particle tracking detectors; Scintillators, Gas, Liquid scintillators); Time projection chambers, Scintillation and light emission processes (solid",
author = "{NEXT collaboration} and F. Monrabal and G{\'o}mez-Cadenas, {J. J.} and Toledo, {J. F.} and A. Laing and V. {\'A}lvarez and Benlloch-Rodr{\'i}guez, {J. M.} and S. C{\'a}rcel and Carri{\'o}n, {J. V.} and R. Esteve and R. Felkai and V. Herrero and A. Mart{\'i}nez and M. Musti and M. Querol and J. Rodr{\'i}guez and A. Sim{\'o}n and C. Sofka and J. Torrent and R. Webb and White, {J. T.} and C. Adams and L. Arazi and Azevedo, {C. D.R.} and K. Bailey and Borges, {F. I.G.M.} and A. Botas and S. Cebri{\'a}n and Conde, {C. A.N.} and J. D{\'i}az and M. Diesburg and J. Escada and Fernandes, {A. F.M.} and Fernandes, {L. M.P.} and P. Ferrario and Ferreira, {A. L.} and Freitas, {E. D.C.} and J. Generowicz and A. Goldschmidt and D. Gonz{\'a}lez-D{\'i}az and R. Guenette and Guti{\'e}rrez, {R. M.} and K. Hafidi and J. Hauptman and Henriques, {C. A.O.} and Hernandez, {A. I.} and {Hernando Morata}, {J. A.} and S. Johnston and Jones, {B. J.P.} and M. Kekic and M. Losada",
note = "Funding Information: The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union{\textquoteright}s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a y Competitividad of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2014-0398 and the Mar{\'i}a de Maetzu Program MDM-2016-0692; the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT and FEDER through the program COMPETE, projects PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and UID/FIS/04559/2013; the U.S. Department of Energy under contract numbers DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M), DE-SC0017721 (University of Texas at Arlington), and DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory); and the University of Texas at Arlington. We also warmly acknowledge the Laboratorio Nazionale di Gran Sasso (LNGS) and the Dark Side collaboration for their help with TPB coating of various parts of the NEXT-White TPC. Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterr{\'a}neo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting the NEXT experiment. Publisher Copyright: c 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
journal = "Journal of Instrumentation",
issn = "1748-0221",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "12",
}