@Article{NEXTCollaborationAlvarez_etal2013,
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 Laing, A.
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 Simon, A.
and Sorel, M.
and Yahlali, N.",
title="Initial results of NEXT-DEMO, a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 experiment",
journal="Journal of Instrumentation",
year="2013",
publisher="Iop Publishing Ltd",
volume="8",
pages="P04002 - 25pp",
optkeywords="Double-beta decay detectors; Time projection chambers; Pattern recognition; cluster finding; calibration and fitting methods",
abstract="NEXT-DEMO is a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 detector, an electroluminescent time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 using 100-150 kg of enriched xenon gas. NEXT-DEMO was built to prove the expected performance of NEXT-100, namely, energy resolution better than 1{\%} FWHM at 2.5MeV and event topological reconstruction. In this paper we describe the prototype and its initial results. A resolution of 1.75{\%} FWHM at 511 keV (which extrapolates to 0.8{\%} FWHM at 2.5 MeV) was obtained at 10 bar pressure using a gamma-ray calibration source. Also, a basic study of the event topology along the longitudinal coordinate is presented, proving that it is possible to identify the distinct dE/dx of electron tracks in high-pressure xenon using an electroluminescence TPC.",
optnote="WOS:000317462400009",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1414), last updated on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:33:21 +0000",
issn="1748-0221",
doi="10.1088/1748-0221/8/04/P04002",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4838",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/04/P04002",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1211.4838",
language="English"
}