• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.065503
• Corpus ID: 67854591

Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double- β decay

@article{Albert2018SensitivityAD,
  title={Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double-
$\beta$
 decay},
  author={nEXO Collaboration J.B. Albert and Gisela Anton and Isaac J. Arnquist and I. Badhrees and P. S. Barbeau and Dominic Beck and Vyacheslav Belov and F. Bourque and J. P. Brodsky and Ethan Brown and T. Brunner and A. A. Burenkov and G. F. Cao and L. Cao and W. R. Cen and Christopher Chambers and Serge A. Charlebois and M. Chiu and Bruce Cleveland and Matthew Coon and Michel Cot'e and Adam Craycraft and W. James Chesterfield Cree and J. Dalmasson and Timothy V. Daniels and S. J. Daugherty and Jacob Daughhetee and Ralph G. DeVoe and S. Delaquis and A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian and Tamar Didberidze and Jens Dilling and Y. Y. Ding and M J Dolinski and Angelo Dragone and Lorenzo Fabris and William M. Fairbank and Jacques Farine and Soheyla Feyzbakhsh and R{\'e}jean Fontaine and D. Fudenberg and Gabriele Giacomini and Razvan Gornea and K. Graham and Giorgio Gratta and Erin V. Hansen and D. Harris and Mohammed Adnan Hasan and Michael Heffner and Eric W. Hoppe and J. Hossl and Allan House and Peter W. Hufschmidt and Michael Hughes and Y. Ito and A. Iverson and A. Jamil and M. J. Jewell and X. S. Jiang and Tessa N. Johnson and Sereres Johnston and A. K. Karelin and Lisa J. Kaufman and Ryan Killick and Thomas Koffas and Scott Kravitz and Reiner Krucken and A. V. Kuchenkov and K. S. Kumar and Yang Lan and Douglas S. Leonard and G. S. Li and S. Li and Z. Li and Caio Licciardi and Y. H. Lin and Ryan Maclellan and Thilo Michel and Brian Mong and David C. Moore and K. Murray and Robert Jason Newby and Z. Ning and Oumarou Njoya and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Nolet and Kelly Odgers and Allen C. Odian and Marco Oriunno and John L. Orrell and G. S. Ortega and I. Ostrovskiy and Cory T. Overman and Samuel Parent and Andreas Piepke and Andrea Pocar and Jean-François Pratte and Da Qiu and Veljko Radeka and E. Raguzin and Triveni Rao and Sergio Rescia and Fabrice Reti{\`e}re and A. L. Robinson and Tommy Rossignol and Peter C. Rowson and Nicolas Roy and R. Saldanha and Samuele Sangiorgio and S{\o}ren Schmidt and Julia Schneider and Alexis G. Schubert and David A. Sinclair and K Skarpaas Viii and Arun Kumar Soma and Gabrielle St-Hilaire and V. N. Stekhanov and T. Stiegler and X. L. Sun and M Tarka and J. Todd and T. Tolba and R. H. M. Tsang and Thomas Tsang and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Vachon and Venkatesh Veeraraghavan and Gerard Visser and Petr Vogel and J-L. Vuilleumier and Michael Wagenpfeil and Q. Wang and M. Weber and W. Wei and Liangjian Wen and Ubi F. Wichoski and Gerrit Wrede and S. Wu and W. H. Wu and L. Yang and Yung-Ruey Yen and O. Ya. Zeldovich and J. Zettlemoyer and X. Zhang and J Zhao and Y. Zhou and T. Ziegler},
  journal={Physical Review C},
  year={2018}
}

• nEXO Collaboration J.B. Albert, G. Anton, +142 authors T. Ziegler
• Published 13 October 2017
• Physics
• Physical Review C

The next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double-β (0νββ) decay in Xe136 with a target half-life sensitivity of approximately 1028 yr using 5×103 kg of isotopically enriched liquid-xenon in a time projection chamber. This improvement of two orders of magnitude in sensitivity over current limits is obtained by a significant increase of the Xe136 mass, the monolithic and homogeneous configuration of the active medium, and the multiparameter measurements of the interactions enabled by the time projection chamber. The detector concept and anticipated performance are presented based upon demonstrated realizable background rates.