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

Autor: R. Guenette, L. Ripoll, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, B. J. P. Jones, P. Lebrun, A. Laing, C. Adams, N. Byrnes, A. Martínez, L.M.P. Fernandes, Javier Pérez, Iván Rivilla, F. Monrabal, I. J. Arnquist, N. López-March, J.M.R. Teixeira, Javier Rodríguez, F.I.G.M. Borges, M. Kekic, T. Contreras, A.D. McDonald, Celia Rogero, M. Losada, S. Cebrián, C. Newhouse, A.A. Denisenko, C.A.N. Conde, R.D.P. Mano, B. Palmeiro, J.A. Hernando Morata, L. Rogers, C. Romo-Luque, G. Díaz, A. Simón, Z. E. Meziani, R. Felkai, Zoraida Freixa, A. Goldschmidt, A. Usón, L. Labarga, E. Church, J. Hauptman, J.M.F. dos Santos, Kevin Bailey, C.M.B. Monteiro, J. Torrent, F.P. Santos, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, P. Herrero, R. Weiss-Babai, Diego González-Díaz, Y. Rodriguez Garcia, D.R. Nygren, Paola Ferrario, J. Ho, J. Renner, T.T. Vuong, Víctor H. Alvarez, J.T. White, A. Redwine, F.J. Mora, Y. Ifergan, Lior Arazi, V. Herrero, C.A.O. Henriques, E. Oblak, N. Yahlali, G. Martínez-Lema, K. Hafidi, M. Querol, A. Para, R. González, Romain Esteve, Roberto Gutiérrez, M. Sorel, C. Stanford, J. Escada, J. Haefner, A.L. Ferreira, J.V. Carrión, B. Romeo, F. Ballester, Frank W. Foss, C.D.R. Azevedo, S. Gosh, P. Thapa, R. C. Webb, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, J. Muñoz Vidal, J. S. Díaz, M. Martínez-Vara, K. Woodruff, P. Novella, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, J. Generowicz
Přispěvatelé: European Commission, European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Generalitat Valenciana, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Fundación 'la Caixa', Department of Energy (US)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 8, Pp 1-24 (2021)
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, art.núm. 164
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ISSN: 1029-8479
Popis: The NEXT collaboration: et al.
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.
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 MDM2016-0692; 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.
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