TY  - JOUR
AU  - NEXT Collaboration (Martin-Albo, J. et al
AU  - Muñoz Vidal, J.
AU  - Ferrario, P.
AU  - Nebot-Guinot, M.
AU  - Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
AU  - Alvarez, V.
AU  - Carcel, S.
AU  - Carrion, J. V.
AU  - Cervera-Villanueva, A.
AU  - Diaz, J.
AU  - Laing, A.
AU  - Liubarsky, I.
AU  - Lopez-March, N.
AU  - Lorca, D.
AU  - Martinez, A.
AU  - Novella, P.
AU  - Palmeiro, P.
AU  - Querol, M.
AU  - Renner, J.
AU  - Rodriguez, J.
AU  - Serra, L.
AU  - Simon, A.
AU  - Sorel, M.
AU  - Yahlali, N.
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 159
EP  - 30pp
VL  - 05
IS  - 5
PB  - Springer
KW  - Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments)
KW  - Rare decay
AB  - NEXT-100 is an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta (0v beta beta) decay of Xe-136. The detector possesses two features of great value for 0v beta beta searches: energy resolution better than 1% FWHM at the Q value of Xe-136 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 x 10(-4) counts keV(-1) kg(-1) yr(-1). Accordingly, the detector will reach a sensitivity to the 0v beta beta-decay half-life of 2.8 x 10(25) years (90% CL) for an exposure of 100 kg.year, or 6.0 x 10(25) years after a run of 3 effective years.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09246
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000391745200003
ID  - NEXTCollaborationMartin-Albo_etal2016
ER  -