%0 Journal Article
%T NEXT-100 Technical Design Report (TDR). Executive summary
%A NEXT Collaboration (Alvarez, V. et al
%A Carcel, S.
%A Cervera-Villanueva, A.
%A Diaz, J.
%A Ferrario, P.
%A Gil, A.
%A Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
%A Gonzalez, K.
%A Liubarsky, I.
%A Lorca, D.
%A Martin-Albo, J.
%A Martinez, A.
%A Monrabal, F.
%A Muñoz Vidal, J.
%A Nebot-Guinot, M.
%A Rodriguez, J.
%A Serra, L.
%A Sorel, M.
%A Yahlali, N.
%J Journal of Instrumentation
%D 2012
%V 7
%I Iop Publishing Ltd
%@ 1748-0221
%G English
%F NEXTCollaborationAlvarez_etal2012
%O WOS:000306072000030
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1097), last updated on Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:56:25 +0000
%X 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.
%K Detector design and construction technologies and materials
%K Time projection chambers
%R 10.1088/1748-0221/7/06/T06001
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1202.0721
%U https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/06/T06001
%P T06001 - 34pp