@Article{NEXTCollaborationMartin-Albo_etal2016,
author="NEXT Collaboration (Martin-Albo, J. et al
and Mu{\~{n}}oz Vidal, J.
and Ferrario, P.
and Nebot-Guinot, M.
and Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
and Alvarez, V.
and Carcel, S.
and Carrion, J. V.
and Cervera-Villanueva, A.
and Diaz, J.
and Laing, A.
and Liubarsky, I.
and Lopez-March, N.
and Lorca, D.
and Martinez, A.
and Novella, P.
and Palmeiro, P.
and Querol, M.
and Renner, J.
and Rodriguez, J.
and Serra, L.
and Simon, A.
and Sorel, M.
and Yahlali, N.",
title="Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay",
journal="Journal of High Energy Physics",
year="2016",
publisher="Springer",
volume="05",
number="5",
pages="159--30pp",
optkeywords="Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments); Rare decay",
abstract="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.",
optnote="WOS:000391745200003",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2928), last updated on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:35:26 +0000",
issn="1029-8479",
doi="10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09246",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1511.09246",
language="English"
}