Operation and first results of the NEXT-DEMO prototype using a silicon photomultiplier tracking array

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Operation and first results of the NEXT-DEMO prototype using a silicon photomultiplier tracking array

D. Lorca J. A. Hernando Morata J. Muñoz Vidal J. T. White J.l. Pérez Aparicio P Evtoukhovitch L. Labarga L.m. Moutinho J. Torrent C.a.n. Conde Ana M. Gil M A Jinete J. F. Castel L.m.p. Fernandes J Pérez S. Cárcel A. Martínez I. G. Irastorza Hector Gomez T. Dafni Dave Nygren J. A. M. Lopes V. M. Gehman D.c. Herrera Javier Rodríguez N. Yahlali A. Tomás F.p. Santos J F Toledo D. Shuman J Renner H. Natal Da Luz J. Hauptman Romain Esteve A. Goldschmidt J. S. Díaz J. Martín-albo J.j. Gómez-cadenas T.h.v.t. Dias A. Moiseenko C. Sofka F. Monrabal Roberto Gutiérrez Víctor H. Alvarez I. Liubarsky Roberto Palma Zviad Tsamalaidze F.j. Mora S. Cebrián R. C. Webb M. Sorel A.l. Ferreira L. Ripoll M. Monserrate L. Segui J.f.c.a. Veloso E.d.c. Freitas M. Nebot-guinot Gabriela Navarro Carlos R. Oliveira M. Losada J.m.f. Dos Santos T. Miller José Villar A Rodríguez G. Luzón M. Egorov Paola Ferrario A. Marí F.i.g.m. Borges G Martínez A. Laing F.j. Iguaz A. Cervera Luis M. Serra C.m.b. Monteiro Diego González-díaz A. Simón

subject

Photomultiplier MECANICA DE LOS MEDIOS CONTINUOS Y TEORIA DE ESTRUCTURAS Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Physical measurements Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors)Time projection chambers Pattern recognition Systems Física -- Mesuraments chemistry.chemical_element FOS: Physical sciences Tracking (particle physics)01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA Xenon Silicon photomultiplier Optics Cluster analysis Double beta decay Pattern recognition 0103 physical sciences Calibration Reconeixement de formes (Informàtica)Calibratge 010306 general physics Instrumentation Image resolution Mathematical Physics Detectors de radiació Physics Calibration and fitting methods 010308 nuclear & particles physics business.industry Detector Cluster finding Física Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)Double-beta decay detectors Anàlisi de conglomerats chemistry Nuclear counters Calibration business

description

NEXT-DEMO is a high-pressure xenon gas TPC which acts as a technological test-bed and demonstrator for the NEXT-100 neutrinoless double beta decay experiment. In its current configuration the apparatus fully implements the NEXT-100 design concept. This is an asymmetric TPC, with an energy plane made of photomultipliers and a tracking plane made of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) coated with TPB. The detector in this new configuration has been used to reconstruct the characteristic signature of electrons in dense gas, demonstrating the ability to identify the MIP and "blob" regions. Moreover, the SiPM tracking plane allows for the definition of a large fiducial region in which an excellent energy resolution of 1.82% FWHM at 511 keV has been measured (a value which extrapolates to 0.83% at the xenon Q(beta beta)).© 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2013-01-01

10.1088/1748-0221/8/09/p09011 https://hdl.handle.net/10251/44310