@Article{NEXTCollaborationMonrabal_etal2018, author="NEXT Collaboration (Monrabal, F. et al and Laing, A. and Alvarez, V. and Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M. and Carcel, S. and Carrion, J. V. and Felkai, R. and Martinez, A. and Musti, M. and Querol, M. and Rodriguez, J. and Simon, A. and Torrent, J. and Botas, A. and Diaz, J. and Kekic, M. and Lopez-March, N. and Martinez-Lema, G. and Mu{\~{n}}oz Vidal, J. and Nebot-Guinot, M. and Novella, P. and Palmeiro, B. and Perez, J. and Renner, J. and Romo-Luque, C. and Sorel, M. and Yahlali, N.", title="The NEXT White (NEW) detector", journal="Journal of Instrumentation", year="2018", publisher="Iop Publishing Ltd", volume="13", pages="P12010 - 38pp", optkeywords="Double-beta decay detectors; Particle tracking detectors; Scintillators; scintillation and light emission processes (solid gas and liquid scintillators); Time projection chambers", abstract="Conceived to host 5 kg of xenon at a pressure of 15 bar in the fiducial volume, the NEXT-White apparatus is currently the largest high pressure xenon gas TPC using electroluminescent amplification in the world. It is also a 1:2 scale model of the NEXT-100 detector for Xe-136 beta beta 0 nu decay searches, scheduled to start operations in 2019. Both detectors measure the energy of the event using a plane of photomultipliers located behind a transparent cathode. They can also reconstruct the trajectories of charged tracks in the dense gas of the TPC with the help of a plane of silicon photomultipliers located behind the anode. A sophisticated gas system, common to both detectors, allows the high gas purity needed to guarantee a long electron lifetime. NEXT-White has been operating since October 2016 at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. This paper describes the detector and associated infrastructures, as well as the main aspects of its initial operation.", optnote="WOS:000452463500001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3833), last updated on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:35:42 +0000", issn="1748-0221", doi="10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02409", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1804.02409", language="English" }