@Article{NEXTCollaborationAlvarez_etal2014,
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="Description and commissioning of NEXT-MM prototype: first results from operation in a Xenon-Trimethylamine gas mixture",
journal="Journal of Instrumentation",
year="2014",
publisher="Iop Publishing Ltd",
volume="9",
pages="P03010 - 22pp",
optkeywords="Time projection chambers; Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors); Double-beta decay detectors",
abstract="A technical description of NEXT-MM and its commissioning and first performance is reported. Having an active volume of similar to 35 cm drift x 28 cm diameter, it constitutes the largest Micromegas-read TPC operated in Xenon ever constructed, made by a sectorial arrangement of the 4 largest single wafers manufactured with the Microbulk technique to date. It is equipped with a suitably pixelized readout and with a sufficiently large sensitive volume (similar to 23 l) so as to contain long (similar to 20 cm) electron tracks. First results obtained at 1 bar for Xenon and Trymethylamine (Xe-(2{\%}) TMA) mixture are presented. The TPC can accurately reconstruct extended background tracks. An encouraging full-width half-maximum of 11.6{\%} was obtained for similar to 29 keV gammas without resorting to any data post-processing.",
optnote="WOS:000336123200070",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1800), last updated on Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:56:38 +0000",
issn="1748-0221",
doi="10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/P03010",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3242",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/P03010",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1311.3242",
language="English"
}