TY  - CONF
AU  - Lorca, David
TI  - The Hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT experiment
IS  - arXiv:1411.0475
CY  - Hamburg
PB  - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY
M1  - PUBDB-2015-05634
M1  - arXiv:1411.0475
SP  - 321-324
PY  - 2014
AB  - The NEXT-100 detector will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of <sup>136</sup>Xe using an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas TPC filled with 100 kg of enriched Xe. An observation of this hypothetical process would establish a Majorana nature for the neutrino and prove the violation of lepton number. A scaled-down prototype, NEXT-DEMO, has been built to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology. NEXT-DEMO includes an energy plane made of PMTs and a tracking plane made of SiPMs. X-ray energy depositions, produced by the de-excitation of xenon atoms after their interaction with gamma rays, have been used to characterize the detector response. With this method, the released energy by gammas coming from <sup>22</sup>Na source has been corrected, achieving an energy resolution of 5.691
T2  - Panic2014
CY  - 25 Aug 2014 - 29 Aug 2014, Hamburg (Germany)
Y2  - 25 Aug 2014 - 29 Aug 2014
M2  - Hamburg, Germany
KW  - double-beta decay: (0neutrino) (INSPIRE)
KW  - photomultiplier: silicon (INSPIRE)
KW  - NEXT (INSPIRE)
KW  - time projection chamber (INSPIRE)
KW  - energy resolution (INSPIRE)
KW  - gamma ray: irradiation (INSPIRE)
KW  - performance (INSPIRE)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)15
DO  - DOI:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2014-04/65
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/291900
ER  -