Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches

C Adams, V Álvarez, L Arazi, IJ Arnquist… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) searches for the neutrinoless
double-beta (0νββ) decay of 136 Xe using high-pressure xenon gas TPCs with …

The MIGDAL experiment: Measuring a rare atomic process to aid the search for dark matter

HM Araújo, SN Balashov, JE Borg, FM Brunbauer… - Astroparticle …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We present the Migdal In Galactic Dark mAtter expLoration (MIGDAL) experiment
aiming at the unambiguous observation and study of the so-called Migdal effect induced by …

Neutral bremsstrahlung emission in xenon unveiled

CAO Henriques, P Amedo, JMR Teixeira… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We present evidence of non-excimer-based secondary scintillation in gaseous xenon,
obtained using both the NEXT-White time projection chamber (TPC) and a dedicated setup …

High pressure gas xenon TPCs for double beta decay searches

JJ Gomez-Cadenas, F Monrabal Capilla… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
This article reviews the application of high pressure gaseous xenon time projection
chambers to neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. First, the fundamentals of the …

Electron transport in gaseous detectors with a Python-based Monte Carlo simulation code

B Al Atoum, SF Biagi, D González-Díaz… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding electron drift and diffusion in gases and gas mixtures is a topic of central
importance for the development of modern particle detection instrumentation. The industry …

Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution

A Simón, Y Ifergan, AB Redwine… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments aim for half-life
sensitivities of∼ 10 27 yr, requiring suppressing backgrounds to< 1 count/tonne/yr. For this …

Demonstration of the event identification capabilities of the NEXT-White detector

P Ferrario, JM Benlloch-Rodríguez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
A bstract In experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the possibility of
identifying the two emitted electrons is a powerful tool in rejecting background events and …

Electron drift and longitudinal diffusion in high pressure xenon-helium gas mixtures

AD McDonald, K Woodruff, B Al Atoum… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report new measurements of the drift velocity and longitudinal diffusion coefficients of
electrons in pure xenon gas and in xenon-helium gas mixtures at 1-9 bar and electric field …

Neutral bremsstrahlung in TPCs

P Amedo, D González-Díaz… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Traditionally, it has been assumed that electroluminescence (EL) in time projection
chambers was purely an excimer-based emission. This idea changed when neutral …

The dynamics of ions on phased radio-frequency carpets in high pressure gases and application for barium tagging in xenon gas time projection chambers

BJP Jones, A Raymond, K Woodruff, N Byrnes… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Radio-frequency (RF) carpets with ultra-fine pitches are examined for ion transport in gases
at atmospheric pressures and above. We develop new analytic and computational methods …