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20102015
most citedRadiopurity of Micromegas readout planes

68 citations · 333 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.ins-det2015★ 30 cited

Gaseous time projection chambers for rare event detection: Results from the T-REX project. I. Double beta decay

I. G. Irastorza, F. Aznar, J. Castel +13

As part of the T-REX project, a number of R&D and prototyping activities have been carried out during the last years to explore the applicability of gaseous Micromegas-read TPCs in…

physics.ins-det2015★ 23 cited

Gaseous time projection chambers for rare event detection: Results from the T-REX project. II. Dark matter

I. G. Irastorza, F. Aznar, J. Castel +13

As part of the T-REX project, a number of R&D and prototyping activities have been carried out during the last years to explore the applicability of Micromegas-read gaseous TPCs in…

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-det2014★ 27 cited

Characterisation of NEXT-DEMO using xenon K X-rays

NEXT Collaboration, D. Lorca, J. Martín-Albo +63

The NEXT experiment aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe in a high pressure gas TPC using electroluminescence (EL) to amplify the signal from ionization…

physics.ins-det2013★ 26 cited

X-ray detection with Micromegas with background levels below 10 keVcms

S. Aune, F. Aznar, D. Calvet +26

Micromegas detectors are an optimum technological choice for the detection of low energy x-rays. The low background techniques applied to these detectors yielded remarkable backgro…

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…