• DOI:10.1007/JHEP08(2021)164
• Corpus ID: 218628857

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

@article{Adams2020SensitivityOA,
  title={Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches},
  author={C. Adams and V{\'i}ctor H. {\'A}lvarez and L. Arazi and Isaac J. Arnquist and Carlos Azevedo and Kevin G. Bailey and F. Ballester and J. M. Benlloch-Rodr'iguez and F.I.G.M. Borges and N. K. Byrnes and S. C'arcel and Jos{\'e} Vincente Carri{\'o}n and Susana Cebri{\'a}n and Eric D. Church and Carlos A. N. Conde and T. Contreras and A. A. Denisenko and G. D́ıaz and Josep D{\'i}az and J. Escada and R. Esteve and Roland Felkai and Luis M P Fernandes and Paola Ferrario and A. L. Ferreira and Frederick J. Foss and E. D. C. Freitas and Zoraida Freixa and Jacek Generowicz and Azriel Goldschmidt and J. J. G'omez-Cadenas and Ricardo Gonzalez and Diego Gonz{\'a}lez-D{\'i}az and S. Gosh and Roxanne Guenette and Rafael M. Guti{\'e}rrez and Jonathan Haefner and Kawtar Hafidi and John Michael Hauptman and Carla Oliveira Henriques and J. A. Hernando Morata and Pablo Herrero and Vicente Herrero and J. Ho and Y. Ifergan and B. J. P. Jones and Marija Kekic and L. Labarga and Andrew Laing and Patrice Lebrun and N. L'opez-March and Marta Losada and Rui Daniel Passos Mano and Justo Mart{\'i}n-Albo and A. Mart́ınez and Miryam Mart{\'i}nez-Vara and G. Mart'inez-Lema and A D McDonald and Zein-Eddine Meziani and Francesco Monrabal and Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro and Francisco J. Mora and J. Mu{\~n}oz Vidal and C. Newhouse and Pau Novella and David R. Nygren and Edouard Oblak and Beatriz Palmeiro and Armando Foglio Para and J. P{\'e}rez and Marc Querol and A. B. Redwine and J. Renner and Llu{\'i}s Ripoll and Iv{\'a}n Rivilla and Y. Rodr{\'i}guez Garc{\'i}a and J. Rodŕıguez and Celia Rogero and L Rogers and B. Romeo and Carmen Romo-Luque and F.P. Santos and Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos and A. Sim'on and Michel Sorel and Chris Stanford and JOSE M. Teixeira and Pawan Thapa and Jos{\'e} F. Toledo and Jordi Torrent and A. Us'on and Jo{\~a}o Veloso and T. T. Vuong and Robert C. Webb and Ruth Weiss-Babai and J. T. White and Katherine Woodruff and Nadia Yahlali},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2020},
  volume={2021}
}

• C. Adams, V. Álvarez, +95 authors N. Yahlali
• Published 13 May 2020
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics

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.