TY  - JOUR
AU  - NEXT Collaboration (Monrabal, F. et al
AU  - Laing, A.
AU  - Alvarez, V.
AU  - Benlloch-Rodriguez, J. M.
AU  - Carcel, S.
AU  - Carrion, J. V.
AU  - Felkai, R.
AU  - Martinez, A.
AU  - Musti, M.
AU  - Querol, M.
AU  - Rodriguez, J.
AU  - Simon, A.
AU  - Torrent, J.
AU  - Botas, A.
AU  - Diaz, J.
AU  - Kekic, M.
AU  - Lopez-March, N.
AU  - Martinez-Lema, G.
AU  - Muñoz Vidal, J.
AU  - Nebot-Guinot, M.
AU  - Novella, P.
AU  - Palmeiro, B.
AU  - Perez, J.
AU  - Renner, J.
AU  - Romo-Luque, C.
AU  - Sorel, M.
AU  - Yahlali, N.
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - The NEXT White (NEW) detector
T2  - J. Instrum.
JO  - Journal of Instrumentation
SP  - P12010 - 38pp
VL  - 13
PB  - Iop Publishing Ltd
KW  - Double-beta decay detectors
KW  - Particle tracking detectors
KW  - Scintillators
KW  - scintillation and light emission processes (solid gas and liquid scintillators)
KW  - Time projection chambers
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1748-0221
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02409
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010
DO  - 10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000452463500001
ID  - NEXTCollaborationMonrabal_etal2018
ER  -