@Article{NEXTCollaborationAlvarez_etal2012,
author="NEXT Collaboration (Alvarez, V. et al
and Carcel, S.
and Cervera-Villanueva, A.
and Diaz, J.
and Ferrario, P.
and Gil, A.
and Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
and Gonzalez, K.
and Liubarsky, I.
and Lorca, D.
and Martin-Albo, J.
and Martinez, A.
and Monrabal, F.
and Mu{\~{n}}oz Vidal, J.
and Nebot-Guinot, M.
and Rodriguez, J.
and Serra, L.
and Sorel, M.
and Yahlali, N.",
title="NEXT-100 Technical Design Report (TDR). Executive summary",
journal="Journal of Instrumentation",
year="2012",
publisher="Iop Publishing Ltd",
volume="7",
pages="T06001 - 34pp",
optkeywords="Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Time projection chambers",
abstract="In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the NEXT-100 detector that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (beta beta 0v) in Xe-136 at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. The document formalizes the design presented in our Conceptual Design Report (CDR): an electroluminescence time projection chamber, with separate readout planes for calorimetry and tracking, located, respectively, behind cathode and anode. The detector is designed to hold a maximum of about 150 kg of xenon at 15 bar, or 100 kg at 10 bar. This option builds in the capability to increase the total isotope mass by 50{\%} while keeping the operating pressure at a manageable level. The readout plane performing the energy measurement is composed of Hamamatsu R11410-10 photomultipliers, specially designed for operation in low-background, xenon-based detectors. Each individual PMT will be isolated from the gas by an individual, pressure resistant enclosure and will be coupled to the sensitive volume through a sapphire window. The tracking plane consists in an array of Hamamatsu S10362-11-050P MPPCs used as tracking pixels. They will be arranged in square boards holding 64 sensors (8 x 8) with a 1-cm pitch. The inner walls of the TPC, the sapphire windows and the boards holding the MPPCs will be coated with tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB), a wavelength shifter, to improve the light collection.",
optnote="WOS:000306072000030",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1097), last updated on Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:56:25 +0000",
issn="1748-0221",
doi="10.1088/1748-0221/7/06/T06001",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1202.0721",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/06/T06001",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="arXiv:1202.0721",
language="English"
}