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Cebrián, Susana
Pérez, Javier Martin Bandac, I. Labarga, Luis A. Álvarez Puerta, Vicente Barrado, A. I. Bettini, Alessandro Borges, Filipa I.G.M. Camargo, Manuel A. Cárcel García, Sara Cervera Villanueva, Anselmo Conde, Carlos A.N. Conde, E. Dafni, Theopisti Díaz Medina, José Esteve, Raúl Fernández, M. Ferrario, Paola Freitas, Elisabete D.C. Fernandes, L.M.P. Gehman, Victor M. Goldschmidt, Azriel Gómez Cadenas, Juan José González-Díaz, Diego Gutiérrez, Rafael María Hauptman, John M. Morata, J. A.Hernando Herrera, D.C. Irastorza, Igor Garcia Laing, Andrew Liubarsky, Igor López-March, N. Lorca Galindo, David Losada, Marta Luzón, Gloria Marí, A. Martín-Albo Simón, Justo Martínez Pérez, Alberto Martínez Lema, Gonzalo Miller, Tom P. Monrabal Capilla, Francesc Monserrate, M. Monteiro, Cristina M.B. Mora, Francisco José Moutinho, L.M. Muñoz Vidal, J. Nebot Guinot, Miquel Nygren, David R. Oliveira, Carlos A.B. Ortiz de Solórzano, A. Pérez Aparicio, J.L. Querol, M. Renner, Joshua Ripoll Masferrer, Lluís Rodríguez Samaniego, Javier Santos, Filomena P. dos Santos, Joaquim M.F. Serra Díaz-Cano, Luis Shuman, Derek B. Simón Estévez, Ander Sofka, C. Sorel, Michel Toledo, J. F. Torrent Collell, Jordi Tsamalaidze, Zviadi Veloso, João F.C.A. Villar, José Ángel Webb, R.C. White, James T. Yahlali Haddou, Nadia |
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| 2020 February 15 | |
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The ”Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC” (NEXT), intended to investigate the neutrinoless double beta decay using a high-pressure xenon gas TPC filled with Xe enriched in 136Xe at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Spain, requires ultra-low background conditions demanding an exhaustive control of material radiopurity and environmental radon levels. An extensive material screening process is underway for several years based mainly on gamma-ray spectroscopy using ultra-low backgroundgermanium detectors in Canfranc but also on mass spectrometry techniques like GDMS and ICPMS. Components from shielding, pressure vessel, electroluminescence and high voltage elements and energy and tracking readout planes have been analyzed, helping in the final design of the experiment and in the construction of the background model. The latest measurements carried out will be presented and the implication on NEXT of their results will be discussed. The commissioning of the NEW detector, as a first step towards NEXT, has started in Canfranc; in-situ measurements of airborne radon levels were taken there to optimize the system for radon mitigation and will be shown too The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges funding support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council under the AdvancedGrant 339787-NEXTand the T-REX Starting Grant ref. ERC-2009-StG-240054 of the IDEAS program of the 7th EU Framework Program; the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under grants CONSOLIDER-Ingenio 2010 CSD2008-0037 (CUP), FPA2009-13697-C04-04, and FIS2012-37947- C04; the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US DoE under Contract no. DE-AC02- 05CH11231; and the Portuguese FCT and FEDER through the programCOMPETE, Projects PTDC/FIS/103860/2008 and PTDC/FIS/112272/2009 |
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| http://hdl.handle.net/2072/372244 | |
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| American Institute of Physics (AIP) | |
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Detectors de radiació
Nuclear counters Cambres d’ionització Ionization chambers |
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| Radon and material radiopurity assessment for the NEXT double beta decay experiment | |
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