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most citedDemonstration of Single Barium Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay using Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging

72 citations · 288 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Demonstration of Event Position Reconstruction based on Diffusion in the NEXT-White Detector

J. Haefner, K. E. Navarro, R. Guenette +108

Noble element time projection chambers are a leading technology for rare event detection in physics, such as for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay searches. Time proje…

physics.ins-det2019★ 9 cited

Radio Frequency and DC High Voltage Breakdown of High Pressure Helium, Argon, and Xenon

K. Woodruff, J. Baeza-Rubio, D. Huerta +91

Motivated by the possibility of guiding daughter ions from double beta decay events to single-ion sensors for barium tagging, the NEXT collaboration is developing a program of R&D…

physics.ins-det2018★ 15 cited

Initial results on energy resolution of the NEXT-White detector

J. Renner, P. Ferrario, G. Martínez-Lema +77

One of the major goals of the NEXT-White (NEW) detector is to demonstrate the energy resolution that an electroluminescent high pressure xenon TPC can achieve for high energy track…

physics.ins-det2018★ 13 cited

High Voltage Insulation and Gas Absorption of Polymers in High Pressure Argon and Xenon Gases

L. Rogers, R. A. Clark, B. J. P. Jones +3

High pressure gas time projection chambers (HPGTPCs) are made with a variety of materials, many of which have not been well characterized in high pressure noble gas environments. A…

physics.ins-det2018★ 28 cited

Calibration of the NEXT-White detector using decays

G. Martínez-Lema, J. A. Hernando Morata, B. Palmeiro +74

The NEXT-White (NEW) detector is currently the largest radio-pure high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber with electroluminescent readout in the world. NEXT-White has been…

physics.ins-det2017★ 72 cited

Demonstration of Single Barium Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay using Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging

A. D. McDonald, B. J. P. Jones, D. R. Nygren +71

A new method to tag the barium daughter in the double beta decay of Xe is reported. Using the technique of single molecule fluorescent imaging (SMFI), individual barium dic…

physics.ins-det2017★ 28 cited

Helium-Xenon mixtures to improve topological signature in high pressure gas Xenon TPCs

R. Felkai, F. Monrabal, D. Gonzalez-Díaz +72

Within the framework of xenon-based double beta decay experiments, we propose the possibility to improve the background rejection of an electroluminescent Time Projection Chamber (…

physics.ins-det2017★ 27 cited

Microscopic simulation of xenon-based optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives

C. D. R. Azevedo, D. Gonzalez-Diaz, S. F. Biagi +67

We introduce a simulation framework for the transport of high and low energy electrons in xenon-based gaseous optical time projection chambers (OTPCs). The simulation relies on ele…

physics.ins-det2017★ 13 cited

Application and performance of an ML-EM algorithm in NEXT

NEXT Collaboration, A. Simón, C. Lerche +67

The goal of the NEXT experiment is the observation of neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe using a gaseous xenon TPC with electroluminescent amplification and specialized p…

physics.ins-det2016★ 66 cited

Background rejection in NEXT using deep neural networks

NEXT Collaboration, J. Renner, A. Farbin +64

We investigate the potential of using deep learning techniques to reject background events in searches for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure xenon time projection c…

physics.ins-det2016★ 16 cited

Investigation of the Coincidence Resolving Time performance of a PET scanner based on liquid xenon: A Monte Carlo study

J. J Gomez-Cadenas, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, P. Ferrario +3

The measurement of the time of flight of the two 511 keV gammas recorded in coincidence in a PET scanner provides an effective way of reducing the random background and therefore i…