The NEXT White (NEW) detector

F Monrabal; J Gómez-Cadenas; J Toledo; A Laing; V Álvarez; J Benlloch-Rodríguez; S Cárcel; J Carrión; R Esteve; R Felkai; V Herrero; A Martínez; M Musti; M Querol; J Rodríguez; A Simón; C Sofka; J Torrent; R Webb; J White; C Adams; L Arazi; CDR Azevedo; K Bailey; FIGM Borges; A Botas; S Cebrián; CAN Conde; J Díaz; M Diesburg; J Escada; AFM Fernandes; LMP Fernandes; P Ferrario; A L Ferreira; EDC Freitas; J Generowicz; A Goldschmidt; D González-Díaz; R Guenette; R Gutiérrez; K Hafidi; J Hauptman; CAO Henriques; A I Hernandez; JA Hernando Morata; S Johnston; BJP Jones; M Kekic; L Labarga; P Lebrun; N López-March; M Losada; RDP Mano; J Martín-Albo; G Martínez-Lema; A McDonald; CMB Monteiro; F Mora; J Muñoz Vidal; M Nebot-Guinot; P Novella; D R Nygren; B Palmeiro; A Para; J Pérez; J Renner; J Repond; S Riordan; L Ripoll; L Rogers; C Romo-Luque; F Santos; JMF dos Santos; M Sorel; T Stiegler; JFCA Veloso; N Yahlali

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The NEXT White (NEW) detector

F Monrabal, J Gómez-Cadenas, J Toledo, A Laing, V Álvarez, J Benlloch-Rodríguez, S Cárcel, J Carrión, R Esteve, R Felkai, …

Journal of instrumentation, Vol.13(12), pp.P12010-P12010

12/06/2018

DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010

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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 136Xe ββ0ν 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 Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. This paper describes the detector and associated infrastructures, as well as the main aspects of its initial operation.

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Electroluminescence

Photomultiplier tubes

Scale models

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Xenon

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Title: Subtitle: The NEXT White (NEW) detector
Creators: F Monrabal - Donostia International Physics Center
J Gómez-Cadenas - Donostia International Physics Center
J Toledo - Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular
A Laing - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
V Álvarez - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
J Benlloch-Rodríguez - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
S Cárcel - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
J Carrión - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
R Esteve - Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular
R Felkai - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
V Herrero - Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular
A Martínez - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
M Musti - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
M Querol - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
J Rodríguez - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
A Simón - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
C Sofka - Texas A&M University
J Torrent - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
R Webb - Texas A&M University
J White - Texas A&M University
C Adams - Harvard University
L Arazi - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
CDR Azevedo
K Bailey - Argonne National Laboratory
FIGM Borges
A Botas
S Cebrián - Universidad de Zaragoza
CAN Conde
J Díaz - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
M Diesburg - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J Escada - University of Coimbra
AFM Fernandes
LMP Fernandes
P Ferrario - Donostia International Physics Center
A L Ferreira - University of Aveiro
EDC Freitas
J Generowicz - Donostia International Physics Center
A Goldschmidt - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
D González-Díaz
R Guenette - Harvard University
R Gutiérrez - Universidad Antonio Nariño
K Hafidi - Argonne National Laboratory
J Hauptman - Iowa State University
CAO Henriques
A I Hernandez - Universidad Antonio Nariño
JA Hernando Morata
S Johnston - Argonne National Laboratory
BJP Jones
M Kekic - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
L Labarga - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
P Lebrun - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
N López-March - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
M Losada - Universidad Antonio Nariño
RDP Mano
J Martín-Albo - Harvard University
G Martínez-Lema - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
A McDonald - The University of Texas at Arlington
CMB Monteiro
F Mora - Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular
J Muñoz Vidal - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
M Nebot-Guinot - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
P Novella - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
D R Nygren - The University of Texas at Arlington
B Palmeiro - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
A Para - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J Pérez - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
J Renner - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
J Repond - Argonne National Laboratory
S Riordan - Argonne National Laboratory
L Ripoll - Universitat de Girona
L Rogers - The University of Texas at Arlington
C Romo-Luque - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
F Santos - University of Coimbra
JMF dos Santos
M Sorel - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
T Stiegler - Texas A&M University
JFCA Veloso
N Yahlali - Instituto de Física Corpuscular
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of instrumentation, Vol.13(12), pp.P12010-P12010
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/13/12/P12010
ISSN: 1748-0221
eISSN: 1748-0221
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Language: English
Date published: 12/06/2018
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984627339802771

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