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most citedNEXT-100 Technical Design Report (TDR). Executive Summary

104 citations · 434 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

math.AP2024★ 1 cited

Modeling low-intensity ultrasound mechanotherapy impact on growing cancer stem cells

B. Blanco, R. Palma, M. Hurtado +7

Targeted therapeutic interventions utilizing low-inten\-sity ultrasound (LIUS) exhibit substantial potential for hindering the proliferation of cancer stem cells. This investigatio…

physics.ins-det2014★ 17 cited

Ionization and scintillation of nuclear recoils in gaseous xenon

J. Renner, V. M. Gehman, A. Goldschmidt +75

Ionization and scintillation produced by nuclear recoils in gaseous xenon at approximately 14 bar have been simultaneously observed in an electroluminescent time projection chamber…

physics.ins-det2013★ 15 cited

Description and commissioning of NEXT-MM prototype: first results from operation in a Xenon-Trimethylamine gas mixture

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. Aznar +82

A technical description of NEXT-MM and its commissioning and first performance is reported. Having an active volume of ~35 cm drift 28 cm diameter, it constitutes the larg…

physics.ins-det2013★ 29 cited

Characterization of a medium size Xe/TMA TPC instrumented with microbulk Micromegas, using low-energy -rays

The NEXT collaboration, V. Alvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +87

NEXT-MM is a general-purpose high pressure (10 bar, l active volume) Xenon-based TPC, read out in charge mode with an 8 cm 8 cm-segmented 700 cm plane (1152 ch…

physics.ins-det2013★ 10 cited

Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment

The NEXT Collaboration, J. J. Gómez-Cadenas, V. Álvarez +74

NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the Xe isotope…

physics.ins-det2013★ 39 cited

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

The NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. I. G. Borges +75

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 config…

physics.ins-det2012★ 11 cited

Near-Intrinsic Energy Resolution for 30 to 662 keV Gamma Rays in a High Pressure Xenon Electroluminescent TPC

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +75

We present the design, data and results from the NEXT prototype for Double Beta and Dark Matter (NEXT-DBDM) detector, a high-pressure gaseous natural xenon electroluminescent time…

physics.ins-det2012

In-situ calibration of a PMT inside a scintillation detector by means of primary scintillation detection

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +75

We have investigated the possibility of calibrating the PMTs of scintillation detectors, using the primary scintillation produced by X-rays to induce single photoelectron response…

physics.ins-det2012★ 60 cited

Initial results of NEXT-DEMO, a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 experiment

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +75

NEXT-DEMO is a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 detector, an electroluminescent time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 using…

physics.ins-det2012★ 40 cited

Ionization and scintillation response of high-pressure xenon gas to alpha particles

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +70

High-pressure xenon gas is an attractive detection medium for a variety of applications in fundamental and applied physics. In this paper we study the ionization and scintillation…

physics.ins-det2012★ 43 cited

Radiopurity control in the NEXT-100 double beta decay experiment: procedures and initial measurements

V. Alvarez, I. Bandac, A. Bettini +77

The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) is intended to investigate the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe, which requires a severe suppression of potential backgrounds…

physics.ins-det2012★ 3 cited

Design and characterization of the SiPM tracking system of NEXT-DEMO, a demonstrator prototype of the NEXT-100 experiment

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, M. Ball +86

NEXT-100 experiment aims at searching the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the Xe-136 isotope using a TPC filled with a 100 kg of high-pressure gaseous xenon, with 90% isotopic en…

physics.ins-det2012★ 104 cited

NEXT-100 Technical Design Report (TDR). Executive Summary

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, F. I. G. M. Borges +84

In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the NEXT-100 detector that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (bbonu) in Xe-136 at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canf…

physics.ins-det2012★ 19 cited

SiPMs coated with TPB : coating protocol and characterization for NEXT

V. Álvarez, J. Agramunt, M. Ball +91

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are the photon detectors chosen for the tracking readout in NEXT, a neutrinoless ββ decay experiment which uses a high pressure gaseous xenon time p…

physics.ins-det2011★ 43 cited

The NEXT-100 experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches (Conceptual Design Report)

NEXT Collaboration, V. Álvarez, M. Ball +80

We propose an EASY (Electroluminescent ApparatuS of high Yield) and SOFT (Separated Optimized FuncTion) time-projection chamber for the NEXT experiment, that will search for neutri…