Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay

Martín-Albo, J.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Ferrario, P.; Nebot-Guinot, M.; Gómez-Cadenas, J. J.; Álvarez, V.; Azevedo, C. D.  R.; Borges, F. I.  G.; Cárcel, S.; Carrión, J. V.; Cebrián, S.; Cervera, A.; Conde, C. A.  N.; Díaz, J.; Diesburg, M.; Esteve, R.; Fernandes, L. M.  P.; Ferreira, A. L.; Freitas, E. D.  C.; Goldschmidt, A.; González-Díaz, D.; Gutiérrez, R. M.; Hauptman, J.; Henriques, C. A.  O.; Hernando Morata, J. A.; Herrero, V.; Labarga, L.; Laing, A.; Lebrun, P.; Liubarsky, I.; López-March, N.; Lorca, D.; Losada, M.; Martínez-Lema, G.; Martínez, A.; Monrabal, F.; Monteiro, C. M.  B.; Mora, F. J.; Moutinho, L. M.; Novella, P.; Nygren, D.; Palmeiro, B.; Para, A.; Querol, M.; Renner, J.; Ripoll, L.; Rodríguez, J.; Santos, F. P.; dos Santos, J. M.  F.; Serra, L.; Shuman, D.; Simón, A.; Sofka, C.; Sorel, M.; Stiegler, T.; Toledo, J. F.; Torrent, J.; Tsamalaidze, Z.; Veloso, J. F.  C.  A.; Webb, R.; White, J. T.; Yahlali, N.; Yepes-Ramírez, H.

doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159

Title: Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay

Journal Article · Thu May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159· OSTI ID:1353390

Martín-Albo, J.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Ferrario, P.; Nebot-Guinot, M.; Gómez-Cadenas, J. J.; Álvarez, V.; Azevedo, C. D. R.; Borges, F. I. G.; Cárcel, S.; Carrión, J. V.; Cebrián, S.; Cervera, A.; Conde, C. A. N.; Díaz, J.; Diesburg, M.; Esteve, R.; Fernandes, L. M. P.; Ferreira, A. L.; Freitas, E. D. C.; Goldschmidt, A. more »

NEXT-100 is an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay of ¹³⁶Xe. The detector possesses two features of great value for 0νββ searches: energy resolution better than 1% FWHM at the Q value of ¹³⁶ Xe 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 × 10 ^-4 counts keV^-1 kg ^-1 yr ^-1 . Accordingly, the detector will reach a sensitivity to the 0νββ-decay half-life of 2.8 × 10 ²⁵ years (90% CL) for an exposure of 100 kg·year, or 6.0 × 10 ²⁵ years after a run of 3 effective years.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: The NEXT Collaboration; The NEXT collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1353390

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1379317

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1511.09246; FERMILAB-PUB-16-669-CD-ND; 1407146

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 5; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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