The NEXT White (NEW) detector

Monrabal, F. ; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. ; Toledo, J.F. ; Laing, A. ; Alvarez, V. ; Benlloch-Rodriguez, J.M. ; Carcel, S. ; Carrion, J. ; Esteve, R. ; Felkai, R. ; Herrero, V. ; Martinez, A. ; Musti, M. ; Ouero, M. ; Rodriguez, J. ; Simon, A. ; Sofka, C. ; Torrent, J. ; Webb, R. ; White, J.T. ; Adams, C. ; Arazi, L. ; Azevedo, C.D.R. ; Bailey, K. ; Borges, F.I.G.M. ; Botas, A. ; Cebrian, S. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Conde, C.A.N. ; Diaz, J. ; Diesburg, M. ; Escada, J. ; Fernandes, A.F.M. ; Fernandes, L.M.P. ; Ferrario, I.P. ; Ferreira, A.L. ; Freitas, E.D.C. ; Generowicz, J. ; Goldschmidt, A. ; Gonzalez-Daaz, D. ; Guenette, R. ; Gutierrez, R.M. ; Hafidi, K. ; Hauptman, J. ; Henriques, C.A.O. ; Hernandez, A.I. ; Morata, J.A.H. ; Johnston, S. ; Jones, B.J.P. ; Kekic, M. ; Labarga, L. ; Lebrun, P. ; Lopez-March, N. ; Losada, M. ; Mano, R.D.P. ; Martin-Albo, J. ; Martinez-Lema, G. ; McDonald, A. ; Monteiro, C.M.B. ; Mora, F.J. ; Vidal, J.M. ; Nebot-Guinot, M. ; Novella, P. ; Nygren, D.R. ; Palmeiro, B. ; Para, A. ; Perez, J. ; Renner, J. ; Repond, J. ; Riordan, S. ; Ripoll, L. ; Rogers, L. ; Romo-Luque, C. ; Santos, F.P. ; dos Santos, J.M.F. ; Sorel, M. ; Stiegler, T. ; Veloso, J.F.C.A. ; Yahlali, N.

Resumen: 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 Xe-136 beta beta 0 nu 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 Subterraneo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. This paper describes the detector and associated infrastructures, as well as the main aspects of its initial operation.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010

Año: 2018

Publicado en: Journal of Instrumentation 13 (2018), P12010 [38 pp]
ISSN: 1748-0221

Factor impacto JCR: 1.366 (2018)

Categ. JCR: INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION rank: 40 / 61 = 0.656 (2018) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.685 - Mathematical Physics (Q1) - Instrumentation (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/339787/EU/Towards the NEXT generation of bb0nu experimets/NEXT
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/674896/EU/The Elusives Enterprise: Asymmetries of the Invisible Universe/ELUSIVES
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/690575/EU/InvisiblesPlus/InvisiblesPlus
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/740055/EU/Molecule for low diffusion TPCs for rare event searches/MELODIC
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2014-53371-C04
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/MDM-2016-0692
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/SEV-2014-0398

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Atóm.Molec.y Nucl. (Dpto. Física Teórica)