Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay
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2017-05-16T07:47:10Z
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2017-05-16T07:47:10Z
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2016-05-26
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1029-8479
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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 136Xe 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 × 1025 years (90% CL) for an exposure of 100 kg·year, or 6.0 × 1025 years after a run of 3 effective years
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eng
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Springer Nature
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Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)159
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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, núm. 159
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Articles publicats (D-EMCI)
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Attribution 4.0 Spain
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Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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025212
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1126-6708