DUGiDocsSensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches
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2021-10-15T10:29:18Z
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2021-10-15T10:29:18Z
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2021-08-30
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1126-6708
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The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) searches for the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of 136Xe using high-pressure xenon gas TPCs with electroluminescent amplification. A scaled-up version of this technology with about 1 tonne of enriched xenon could reach in less than 5 years of operation a sensitivity to the half-life of 0νββ decay better than 1027 years, improving the current limits by at least one order of magnitude. This prediction is based on a well-understood background model dominated by radiogenic sources. The detector concept presented here represents a first step on a compelling path towards sensitivity to the parameter space defined by the inverted ordering of neutrino masses, and beyond
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The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions:
the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT;
the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020
(2014–2020) under the Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio
de Economía y Competitividad and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, RTI2018-095979, the Severo Ochoa Program
grants SEV-2014-0398 and CEX2018-000867-S, and the María de Maeztu Program MDM-
2016-0692; the Generalitat Valenciana of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and
SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and under
projects UID/FIS/04559/2020 to fund the activities of LIBPhys-UC; the Pazy Foundation
(Israel) under grants 877040 and 877041; the US Department of Energy under
contracts number DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory), DE-AC02-
07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M)
and DE-SC0019223 / DE-SC0019054 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University
of Texas at Arlington. DGD acknowledges support from the Ramón y Cajal program
(Spain) under contract number RYC-2015-18820. JM-A acknowledges support from Fundación
Bancaria la Caixa (ID 100010434), grant code LCF/BQ/PI19/11690012, and from
the Plan GenT program of the Generalitat Valenciana, grant code CIDEGENT/2019/049.
Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting
the NEXT experiment
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eng
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Springer
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Reproducció digital del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2021)164
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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, art.núm. 164
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Attribution 4.0 International
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Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches
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peer-reviewed
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1029-8479