%0 Journal Article
%T Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay
%A NEXT Collaboration (Martin-Albo, J. et al
%A Muñoz Vidal, J.
%A Ferrario, P.
%A Nebot-Guinot, M.
%A Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
%A Alvarez, V.
%A Carcel, S.
%A Carrion, J. V.
%A Cervera-Villanueva, A.
%A Diaz, J.
%A Laing, A.
%A Liubarsky, I.
%A Lopez-March, N.
%A Lorca, D.
%A Martinez, A.
%A Novella, P.
%A Palmeiro, P.
%A Querol, M.
%A Renner, J.
%A Rodriguez, J.
%A Serra, L.
%A Simon, A.
%A Sorel, M.
%A Yahlali, N.
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%D 2016
%V 05
%N 5
%I Springer
%@ 1029-8479
%G English
%F NEXTCollaborationMartin-Albo_etal2016
%O WOS:000391745200003
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2928), last updated on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:35:26 +0000
%X 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.
%K Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments)
%K Rare decay
%R 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09246
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159
%P 159-30pp