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

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Alvarez V ^a   Borges, F I G ^b   Carcel S ^a   Castel, J ^c   Cebrian S ^c   Cervera, A ^a   Conde, C A N ^b   Dafni, T ^c   Dias, T H V T ^b   Diaz J ^a   Egorov, M ^d   Esteve, R ^e   Evtoukhovitch, P ^f   Fernandes, L M P ^b   Ferrario, P ^a   Ferreira, A L ^g   Freitas, E D C ^b   Gehman, V M ^d   Gil, A ^a   Goldschmidt, A ^d   Gomez H ^c   Gomez Cadenas J J ^a   Gonzalez Diaz D ^c   Gutierrez R M ^h   Hauptman, J ⁱ   Hernando Morata, J A ^j   Herrera, D C ^c   Iguaz, F J ^c   Irastorza, I G ^c   Jinete, M A ^h   Labarga, L ^k   Laing, A ^a   Liubarsky, I ^a   Lopes, J A M ^b   Lorca, D ^a   Losada, M ^h   Luzon G ^c   Mari A ^e   Martin Albo J ^a   Martinez A ^a   Miller, T ^d   Moiseenko, A ^f   Monrabal, F ^a   Monteiro, C M B ^b   Mora, F J ^e   Moutinho, L M ^g   Munoz Vidal J ^a   Natal Da Luz, H ^b   Navarro, G ^h   Nebot Guinot, M ^a   Nygren, D ^d   Oliveira, C A B ^d   Palma, R ^l   Perez J ^k   Perez Aparicio J L ^l   Renner, J ^d   Ripoll, L ^m   Rodriguez A ^c   Rodriguez J ^a   Santos, F P ^b   Dos Santos, J M F ^b   Segui L ^c   Serra, L ^a   Shuman, D ^d   Simon A ^a   Sofka, C ⁿ   Sorel, M ^a   Toledo, J F ^d   Tomas A ^c   Torrent, J ^m   Tsamalaidze, Z ^f   Vazquez D ^j   Veloso, J F C A ^g   Villar, J A ^c   Webb, R ⁿ   White, J T ⁿ   Yahlali, N ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE INSTRUMENTACIÓN PARA IMAGEN MOLECULAR I3M   (Spain)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^h CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

ⁱ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Universidade de Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^l UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

ⁿ TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Double beta decay detectors; Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods; Time projection chambers

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION SOURCE; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FITTING METHOD; HIGH PRESSURE XENON; LARGE-SCALE PROTOTYPE; NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAYS; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS;

CALIBRATION; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84877761333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/04/P04002     Document Type: Article

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