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Papers and reviews

2023

The NEXT Collaboration (P. Novella et al.), Demonstration of neutrinoless double beta decay searches in gaseous xenon with NEXT , arXiv:2305.09435.

The NEXT Collaboration (N.K. Byrnes et al.), NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout , arXiv:2304.06091.

The NEXT Collaboration (K.E. Navarro et al.), A Compact Dication Source for Ba2+ Tagging and Heavy Metal Ion Sensor Development , arXiv:2303.01522.

The NEXT Collaboration (J. Haefner et al.), Reflectance and fluorescence characteristics of PTFE coated with TPB at visible, UV, and VUV as a function of thickness , JINST 18 (2023) P03016.

2022

The NEXT Collaboration (C. A. O. Henriques et al.), Neutral Bremsstrahlung emission in xenon unveiled, Phys. Rev. X 12, 021005 (2022).

The NEXT Collaboration (P. Herrero-Gómez et al.), Ba2+ ion trapping by organic submonolayer: towards an ultra-low background neutrinoless double beta decay detector, Nat Commun 13, 7741 (2022).

2021

The NEXT Collaboration (P. Novella et al.), Measurement of the 136Xe two-neutrino double beta decay half-life via direct background subtraction in NEXT, Phys. Rev. C 105, 055501 (2022).

The NEXT Collaboration (B.J.P. Jones et al.), The Dynamics of Ions on Phased Radio-frequency Carpets in High Pressure Gases and Application for Barium Tagging in Xenon Gas Time Projection Chambers, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A1039 (2022) 167000.

The NEXT Collaboration (A. Simón et al.), Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution, JHEP 21 (2021) 146.

The NEXT Collaboration (M. Kekic et al.), Demonstration of background rejection using deep convolutional neural networks in the NEXT experiment, JHEP 01 (2021) 189.

The NEXT Collaboration (S. Ghosh et al.), Dependence of polytetrafluoroethylene reflectance on thickness at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths in air, JINST 15 (2021) P11031.

The NEXT Collaboration (G. Martínez-Lema et al.), Sensitivity of the NEXT experiment to Xe-124 double electron capture, JHEP 02 (2021) 203.

The NEXT Collaboration (C. Adams et al.), Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, JHEP 08 (2021) 164.

P. Thapa et al., Barium Selective Chemosensing by Diazacrown Ether Naphthalimide Turn-on Fluorophores for Single Ion Barium Tagging, ACS Sens. 2021, 6, 1, 192–202 (2021).

2020

The NEXT Collaboration (L. Rogers et al.), Mitigation of Backgrounds from Cosmogenic 137Xe in Xenon Gas Experiments using 3He Neutron Capture, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 47(2020) 075001.

The NEXT Collaboration (K. Woodruff et al.), Radio Frequency and DC High Voltage Breakdown of High Pressure Helium, Argon, and Xenon, JINST 15 (2020) P04022.

The NEXT Collaboration (A.F.M. Fernandes et al.), Low-diffusion Xe-He gas mixtures for rare-event detection: Electroluminescence Yield, JHEP 04, 034 (2020).

I. Rivilla et al., Fluorescent bicolour sensor for low-background neutrinoless double β decay experiments, Nature 583, 48-54 (2020).

2019

The NEXT Collaboration (P. Novella et al.), Radiogenic backgrounds in the NEXT double beta decay experiment (2019)

I. Rivilla et al., Towards a background-free neutrinoless double beta decay experiment based on a fluorescent bicolor sensor, arXiv:1909.02782.

The NEXT Collaboration (P. Ferrario et al.), Demonstration of the event identification capabilities of the NEXT-White detector, JHEP 10, 052 (2019).

The NEXT Collaboration (J. Renner et al.), Energy calibration of the NEXT-White detector with 1% resolution near Qββ of 136Xe, JHEP 10, 230 (2019).

The NEXT Collaboration (A.D. McDonald et al.), Electron Drift and Longitudinal Diffusion in High Pressure Xenon-Helium Gas Mixtures, JINST 14 (2019) P08009.

The NEXT Collaboration (C.A.O. Henriques et al.), Electroluminescence TPCs at the Thermal Diffusion Limit, JHEP 1901 (2019) 027.

P. Thapa et al., Barium Chemosensors with Dry-Phase Fluorescence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Nature Scientific Reports 9, 15097 (2019).

2018

The NEXT Collaboration (A.M.F. Trindade et al.)Study of the loss of Xenon Scintillation in Xenon-Trimethylamine Mixtures, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A905 (2018) 22-28.

The NEXT Collaboration (J. Renner et al.)Initial results on energy resolution of the NEXT-White detector, JINST 13 (2018) no.10, P10020.

The NEXT Collaboration (F. Monrabal et al.), The Next White (NEW) Detector, JINST 13 (2018) no.12, P12010.

The NEXT Collaboration (L. Rogers et al.)High Voltage Insulation and Gas Absorption of Polymers in High Pressure Argon and Xenon Gases,  JINST 13 (2018) no.10, P10002.

The NEXT Collaboration (G. Martínez-Lema et al.)Calibration of the NEXT-White detector using 83mKr decays, JINST 13 (2018) P10014.

The NEXT Collaboration (R. Felkai et al.)Helium–Xenon mixtures to improve the topological signature in high pressure gas xenon TPCs, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A905 (2018) 82-90.

The NEXT Collaboration (A. Simón et al.), Electron drift properties in high pressure gaseous xenon, JINST 13 (2018) no.07, P07013.

The NEXT Collaboration (A.D. McDonald et al.),  Demonstration of Single Barium Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay using Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging, Phys.Rev.Lett. 120 (2018) no.13, 132504.

The NEXT Collaboration (C. Azevedo et al.)Microscopic simulation of xenon-based optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additive, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A877 (2018) 157-172.

E. Bainglass et al., Mobility and Clustering of Barium Ions and Dications in High Pressure Xenon Gas, Physical Review A 97, 062509 (2018).

2017

The NEXT Collaboration (C.A.O. Henriques et al.),  Secondary scintillation yield of xenon with sub-percent levels of CO 2 additive for rare-event detection, Phys.Lett. B773 (2017) 663-671.

The NEXT Collaboration (S. Cebrián et al.)Radiopurity assessment of the energy readout for the NEXT double beta decay experiment, JINST 12 (2017) no.08, T08003.

The NEXT Collaboration (A. Simón et al.), Application and performance of an ML-EM algorithm in NEXT, JINST 12 (2017) P08009.

The NEXT Collaboration (J. Renner et al.)Background rejection in NEXT using deep neural networks, JINST 12 (2017) no.01, T01004.

2016

The NEXT Collaboration (J. Martín-Albo et al.), Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay, JHEP 1605 (2016) 159.

The NEXT Collaboration (P. Ferrario et al.), First proof of topological signature in the high pressure xenon gas TPC with electroluminescence amplification for the NEXT experiment, JHEP 1601 (2016) 104.

B.J.P. Jones et al., Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging for Barium Tagging in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Journal of Instrumentation 11 (2016) no.12, P12011.

2015

The NEXT Collaboration (D. González et al.), Accurate gamma and MeV-electron track reconstruction with an ultra-low diffusion Xenon/TMA TPC at 10 atm, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 804 (2015) 8–24.

The NEXT Collaboration (J. Renner et al.), Ionization and scintillation of nuclear recoils in gaseous xenonNuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research A 793 (2015), 62-74.

The NEXT Collaboration (E.D.C. Freitas et al.)PMT calibration of a scintillation detector using primary scintillation, JINST 10 C02039 (2015).

The NEXT Collaboration (L. Serra et al.), An improved measurement of electron-ion recombination in high-pressure xenon gas, JINST 10 P03025 (2015).

S. Cebrián et al.Radiopurity assessment of the tracking readout for the NEXT double beta decay experimentJINST 10 P05006 (2015).

2014

The NEXT Collaboration (D. Lorca et al.), Characterisation of NEXT-DEMO using xenon Kα X-rays, JINST 9 P10007 (2014).

The NEXT Collaboration, Characterization of a medium size Xe TMA TPC instrumented with microbulk Micromegas, using low-energy gamma-rays, JINST 9, C04015 (2014).

The NEXT Collaboration, Description and commissioning of NEXT-MM prototype: first results from operation in a Xenon-Trimethylamine gas mixture, JINST 9 P0301 (2014).

The NEXT Collaboration, Present status and future perspectives of the NEXT experiment,  Advances in High Energy Physics, vol. 2014, Article ID 907067, special issue.

2013

The NEXT Collaboration, Operation and first results of the NEXT-DEMO prototype using a silicon photomultiplier tracking array, JINST 8 (2013) P09011.

The NEXT Collaboration, Ionization and scintillation response of high-pressure xenon gas to alpha particles, JINST 8 P05025 (2013).

The NEXT Collaboration, Initial results of NEXT-DEMO, a large-scale prototype for the NEXT-100 experiment, JINST 8 P04002 (2013) .

The NEXT CollaborationNear-Intrinsic Energy Resolution for 30 to 662 keV Gamma Rays in a High Pressure Xenon Electroluminescent TPC, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research A (2013), pp. 101, 114.

The NEXT Collaboration, Radiopurity control in the NEXT-100 double beta decay experiment: procedures and initial measurements, JINST 8 T01002 (2013).

The NEXT CollaborationDesign and characterization of the SiPM tracking system of the NEXT-100 demonstrator, accepted for publication as a Technical Report in JINST (2013).

J. J. Gómez-Cadenas et al., GraXe, graphene and xenon for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, JCAP 02 (2012) 037.

2012

The NEXT Collaboration, SiPMs coated with TPB: coating protocol and characterization for NEXT,  JINST 7 P02010 (2012).

J. J. Gómez-Cadenas et al., The search for neutrinoless double beta decay, Riv. Nuovo Cim. 35 (2012) 29-98.

2011

C. A.B. Oliveira et al., Energy resolution studies for NEXT, JINST 6 P05007 (2011).

J. J. Gómez-Cadenas et al., Sense and sensitivity of double beta decay experiments, JCAP 1106 (2011) 007.

S. Cebrián et al., Radiopurity of micromegas readout plane,  Astropart. Phys. 34:354-359, 2011.

2010

L. M.P. Fernandes et al., Primary and secondary scintillation measurements in a xenon Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter, JINST 5 P09066 (2010).

E.D.C. Freitas et al., Secondary scintillation yield in high-pressure xenon gas for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) search, Physics Letters B 684 (2010) 205–210.

S. Cebrián et al., Micromegas readouts for double beta decay searches, JCAP 10 (2010) 010.

 

Oral presentations at conferences

2021

C. Romo-Luque, Status of the NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, talk given at 22nd NuFact 2021, September 6th to 11th, 2021, Cagliari (Italy).

A. Usón, Measurement of the 136Xe two-neutrino double beta decay half-life with NEXT-White, talk given at 17th TAUP, August 26th to September 3rd, 2021, Valencia (Spain).

B. Jones, Barium Tagging for the NEXT Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Program, talk given at 17th TAUP, August 26th to September 3rd, 2021, Valencia (Spain).

P. Novella, Measurement of the Measurement of the 136Xe bb2v half-life in NEXT-White, talk given at EPS-HEP 2021, July 26th to 30th, 2021, Virtual Edition.

2020

M. Kekic, Demonstration of background rejection using deep neural networks in the NEXT experiment, Neutrino Physics and Machine Learning, 10-24 July 2020

L. Arazi, Breakthrough improvement in track reconstruction in the NEXT experiment, Israel Physics Society conference, February 17, 2020, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

2019

J.M. Benlloch-Rodriguez, Results of the NEXT experiment for 0νββ searches, talk given at 16th TAUP, September 9th to 13th, 2019, Toyama (Japan).

F. Monrabal , The search for Majorana neutrinos with a background-free gaseous Xenon TPC at the tonne scale, talk given at 16th TAUP, September 9th to 13th, 2019, Toyama (Japan).

B. Palmeiro, The NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, talk given at 27th WIN, June 2nd to 8th, 2019, Bari (Italy).

L. Arazi, Status of the NEXT project, 15th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, February 18th to 22nd, 2019, Vienna (Austria).

2018

M. SorelXenon TPCs for Double Beta Decay Searches, talk given at NuPhys 2018, December 19th to 21st,  2018, London (UK).

B. Jones, PROGRESS ON BARIUM TAGGING FOR NEXT, 9th symposium on large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection, December 12 to 14th, 2018, Paris (France), proceedings.

L. Arazi, Status of the NEXT project, 9th Symposium on Large TPCs for Large TPCs for Low-Energy Rare-Event Detection, December 12 to 14, 2018, Paris (France).

Justo Martin-Albo, THE NEXT EXPERIMENT FOR DOUBLE BETA DECAY SEARCHES, 2018 CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop, December 9 to 11, 2018, Rhode Island (US).

D. Nygren, NEXT, DBD18, October 21st to 23rd, 2018, Hawaii Island (US).

Sereres Johnston, Status and Future for the NEXT Collaboration in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, CIPANP 2018, May 29th to June 3rd, 2018, Indian Wells (US).

2017

A.D. McDonaldSingle Molecule Fluorescent Imaging & Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, talk given at DNP 2017, October 25th to 28th, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA (US).

N. López-MarchNEXT experiment: 0νββ search with High pressure Xe gas TPC, talk given at Lidine 2017, September 22th to 24th, 2017, SLAC, CA (US), JINST 13 (2018) no.01, C01048.

A.D. McDonaldSingle Molecule Fluorescent Imaging & Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, talk given at Lidine 2017, September 22th to 24th, 2017, SLAC, CA (US).

P. NovellaNEXT: Searching for the bb0nu decay at the LSC, talk given at PANIC2017, September 1st to 5th, 2017, Beijing (China).

F. Monrabal, TONNE SCALE NEXT AT SNOLAB, SNOLAB Future Projects Workshop, August 16-17th 2017, SNOLAB (Canada).

A. SimónThe NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, TAUP 2017, 24-28 July 2017, Sudbury, Ontario (Canada).

P. Ferrario, The NEXT double beta decay experiment, EPS-HEP 2017, July 5-12, 2017, Venice (Italy), PoS EPS_HEP2017 (2017) 105.

N. López-MarchNeutrino-less double beta decay experiments, talk given at the Gordon Research Conference in Particle Physics, June 25th to 30th, 2017, Hong Kong.

G. Martínez-LemaStatus of the NEXT experiment after the first data-taking run with the NEW prototype, WIN2017, June 18th to 24th, 2017, Irvine, CA (US).

J.J. Gómez-CadenasNeutrinoless double beta decay, talk given at the XLV International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, April 24th-28th 2017, Granada, Spain.

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas,  Status of NEXT and prospects for a future Next Array apparatUS with Improved CApAbilities (NAUSICAA), talk given at NEUTEL2017, March 13-17th, 2017, PoS NEUTEL2017 (2018) 032.

A.D. McDonaldSingle Molecule Fluorescent Imaging & Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, talk given at APS April meeting 2017, January 28th to 31st, 2017, Washington DC (US).

2016

A.D. McDonaldSingle Molecule Fluorescent Imaging & Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, talk given at the 8th symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December 2016, Paris (France).

D. González et al.Microscopic simulation of Xenon- based optical TPCs in the presence of additives, talk given at the 8th symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December 2016, Paris (France).

C.A.O. Henriques et al.Xe-Mx mixtures for the NEXT EL TPC, talk given at the 8th symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December 2016, Paris (France).

F. Monrabal et al.Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a Xenon gas TPC: The NEXT experiment, talk given at the 8th symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December 2016, Paris (France).

N. López-MarchNeutrinoless double beta decay: status and prospects of the NEXT experiment at the LSC, talk given at Renata 2016, Zaragoza, November 2016.

G. Martínez-LemaThe NEXT experiment, NOW2016, September 4th to 11th, 2016, Otranto, (Italy), PoS (NOW2016) 071.

M. Querol et al., A programmable, multichannel power supply for SIPMS with temperature compensation loop and Ethernet interface, iWoRID 2016, July 3rd to 7th, 2016, Barcelona (Spain), 2016 JINST 11 C12035.

N. López-March, for the NEXT CollaborationSensitivity of the NEXT-100 detector to neutrinoless double beta decay, Neutrino2016, July 2016, London (UK), J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 888 (2017) no.1, 012243 .

P. Ferrario, for the NEXT Collaboration, Topology signature in the NEXT high pressure xenon TPC, Neutrino2016, July 2016, London (UK), J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 888 (2017) no.1, 012242 .

M. Nebot-Guinot, for the NEXT Collaboration, The NEW detector: construction, commissioning and first results, Neutrino2016, July 2016, London (UK), J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 888 (2017) no.1, 012244.

F. Monrabal, for the NEXT Collaboration, The NEXT experiment to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136, ICHEP2016, August 2016, Chicago (US).

2015

N. Yahlali et al., Ageing studies of TPB in noble gas detectors for dark matter and neutrinoless ββ decay searches, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2015.

P. Novella, for the NEXT CollaborationNEXT: Searching for the ββ0ν decay in the Canfranc Underground LaboratoryPoS EPS-HEP2015 (2015) 082, July 2015, Vienna (Austria).

N. Yahlali et al.SiPM Readout Technique in a High Pressure Xenon Electroluminescent TPC for neutrinoless ββ decay searches, PhotoDet2015, July 6th to 9th, Moscow, Troitsk, Russia, PoS(PhotoDet2015) 034.

R. Esteve et al., Readout and data acquisition in the NEXT-NEW detector based on SRS-ATCA, Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics 2015, September 28th to October 2nd, Lisbon (Portugal), 2016 JINST 11 C01008.

J. Renner et al., for the NEXT Collaboration, Characterization of Nuclear Recoils in High Pressure Xenon Gas: Towards a Simultaneous Search for WIMP Dark Matter and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Physics Procedia 61 (2015) 766 – 773, 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2015.

A. Laing, for the NEXT Collaboration, The NEXT double beta decay experiment, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 718 (2016) no.6, 062033, 14th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2015, Torino (Italy).

S. Cebrián et al., Radon and material radiopurity assessment for the NEXT double beta decay experiment, Low Radioactivity Techniques 2015 (LRT 2015), March 18th to 20th, 2015, Seattle, (US), AIP Conference Proceedings 1672, 060002 (2015).

2014

D. González, Operation of a 10bar/1kg Penning- Fluorescent Xenon TPC: x- and gamma-ray reconstruction in charge mode, talk given at the 7th symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December 2014, Paris (France)

D. González, NEXT-generation HP Xe-TPCs for the NEXT-ββ0ν experiment, talk given at the 7th symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December 2014, Paris (France).

A. Laing, J.J. Gómez-CadenasStatus of the NEXT experiment and future perspectives for HPXe-based DBD experiments, DBD 2014, Hawaii (US), October 2014.

J. Rodríguez et al., The front-end electronics for the 1.8-kchannel SiPM tracking plane in the NEW detector, Topical workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics 2014, September 22nd to 26th, 2014, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2015 JINST 10 C01025.

D. Lorca, The Hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT experiment, PANIC 2014, August 25th to 29th 2014, Hamburg (Germany), proceedings.

T. Dafni et al., Results of the material screening program of the NEXT experiment, Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 273–275 (2016) 2666–2668, proceedings of the poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

L. Serra, D. Lorca, J. Martín-Albo, A. Laing, M. Sorel, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Latest results of NEXT-DEMO, the prototype of the NEXT 100 double beta decay experiment, proceedings of the poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

M. Nebot-Guinot, P. Ferrario, J. Martín-Albo, J. Muñoz Vidal, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Backgrounds and sensitivity of the NEXT double beta decay experiment, Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 273–275 (2016) 2612–2614, proceedings of the poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

F. Monrabal, on behalf of the NEXT Collaboration, Development of NEW, towards the first physics results of NEXT, Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 273–275 (2016) 2621–2623, proceedings of the poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

A. Simón, P. Ferrario, A. Izmaylov, on behalf of the NEXT Collaboration, Event reconstruction in NEXT using the ML-EM algorithm, Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 273-275 2624-2626, proceedings of the poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, The NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th 2014, Valencia (Spain), proceedings.

C. MonteiroThe NEXT detector: an Electroluminescence Xenon TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay detection, talk given at TIPP 2014, June 2nd to 6th, 2014, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

D. González, First results from a 10bar Xe-TPC with 1kg fiducial mass, read out with Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors, talk given at TIPP 2014, June 2nd to 6th, 2014, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

M. SorelThe NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, XLII International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Jan 26 to Feb 1, 2014, Benasque (Spain).

J.A. Hernando, Status of NEXT-100 experiment, TAUP2013, September 8th to 13th, Asilomar, California (US), Phys.Procedia 61 (2015) 251-253.

2013

D. González-Díaz, The NEXT experiment. Towards phase I, International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics (14th ICATPP Conference), September 23rd to 27th, 2013, Como (Italy), Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Radiation Interaction, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications: Volume 8.

L. Seguí, NEXT prototypes based on micromegas, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A718 (2013) 434-436.

N. Yahlali et al.Characterization of UV-enhanced SiPMs for Imaging in a High Pressure Xenon Electroluminescent TPC, Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), Marseille (France), June 23rd to 27th, 2013, submitted to the IEEE Xplore.

V. Álvarez et al., Radiopurity control in the NEXT-100 double beta decay experiment, LRT2013, April 2013, Gran Sasso (Italy), AIP Conf. Proc. 1549, 46 (2013).

J. Pérez, The NEXT-100 experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta decay: Main features, Results from Prototypes and Radio-Purity issues,  EPS-HEP, July 18th to 24th, 2013, Stockholm (Sweden), proceedings.

N.Yahlali et al., Characterization of UV-enhanced SiPMs for Imaging in a High Pressure Xenon Electroluminescent TPC, Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), Marseille (France), June 23rd to 27th, 2013.

F. MonrabalNEXT-DEMO Results, IceCube Particle Astrophysics Symposium 2013, Madison, Wisconsin (USA), May 13th to 15th, 2013.

P. FerrarioThe NEXT way to neutrinoless double beta decay, IceCube Particle Astrophysics Symposium 2013, Madison, Wisconsin (USA), May 13th to 15th, 2013.

L. Serra,  NEXT-DEMO, A high-pressure xenon gas TPC prototype for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, ANT 2013, May 9th to 12th, 2013, Lake Tahoe (US), proceedings.

M. Sorel et al.The Future of Neutrino Mass Measurements: Terrestrial, Astrophysical, and Cosmological Measurements in the Next Decade, Highlights of the νMass 2013 Workshop, February 4th to 7th , 2013, Milano (Italy), talk.

C. A. B. Oliveira, Results from the NEXT prototypes, Sixth Symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December, 17th to 19th, 2012, Paris (France), J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 460 (2013) 012011.

J.J. Gómez-CadenasStatus of NEXT, presentation for RENATA/CPAN, Granada (Spain), November 2012.

2012

J. Martín-Albo, Status and physics potential of NEXT-100, Sixth Symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, December, 17th to 19th, 2012, Paris (France), J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 460 (2013) 012010.

J. Rodríguez et al.Mass production automated test system for the NEXT SiPM tracking plane, proceedings for the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Anaheim (US), October 29th to November 3rd, 2012.

R. Esteve et al.The Trigger System in the NEXT-DEMO detector, proceedings of the poster presented at TWEPP 2012, Oxford (UK), September 17th to 21st, 2012.

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas et al., NEXT, high pressure xenon-gas experiments for ultimate sensitivity to Majorana neutrinos, iWoRID 2012, July 1st to 5th, 2012, Figueira da Foz (Portugal) - JINST 7 (2012) C11007.

N. Yahlali et al., Imaging with SiPMs in noble-gas detectors, proceedings for the iWoRID 2012, July 1st to 5th, 2012, Figueira da Foz (Portugal),  JINST 8 (20013) C01003.

T. Dafni, NEXT: a gaseous-Xe TPC for the neutrinoless double-beta decay, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 229-232 (2012) 479.

P. Ferrario, NEXT-DEMO: a prototype for the NEXT experiment, iWoRID 2012, July 1st to 5th, 2012, Figueira da Foz (Portugal) - JINST 7 (2012) C11013.

D. Lorca et al., The NEXT experiment - A high pressure xenon TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay searches., 12th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba (Italy), May 20th to 26th, 2012, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A718 (2013) 387-390.

2011

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Status of the NEXT experiment, DBD 2011, Osaka (Japan), November 14th to 17th, 2011.

J. Martín-AlboStatus of CUP-Proyecto Consolider-INGENIO 2010 "Canfranc Underground Physics", talk given at III Jornadas CPAN, Barcelona, November 2nd to 4th, 2011.

J. Toledo et al., The Front-End Concentrator card for the RD51 Scalable Readout System, presented at TWEPP 2011, Vienna (Austria), September 26th to 30th 2011 - JINST Vol. 6, Issue 11, November 2011.

Al. Gil et al., Front-end electronics for accurate energy measurement of double beta decay, proceedings for the NDIP 2011, Lyon (France), to be published in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A.

V. Herrero et al., Readout electronics for the  SiPM tracking plane in the NEXT-1 prototype, poster presented at NDIP 2011, proceedings published in Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A (2011).

J. Rodríguez et al., Programmable power supply system for SiPM bias, proceedings for the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Valencia (Spain), October 23rd to 29th, 2011.

N. Yahlali, Tracking with Silicon Photomultipliers in NEXT, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Valencia (Spain), October 23rd to 29th, 2011, proceedings.

J. Renner, High-pressure xenon gas TPC for neutrino-less double-beta decay in 136Xe: Progress toward the goal of 1% FWHM energy resolution, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Valencia (Spain), October 23rd to 29th, 2011 - proceedings.

F. Monrabal, Discovering neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT-100 detector, 12th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2011), Munich (Germany), September 05th to 09th, 2011 - J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 375 (2012) 042019.

T. Dafni et al., Rare event searches based on Micromegas detectors: T-REX, poster presented at the 12th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2011), Munich (Germany), September 05th to 09th, 2011 - to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

T. Dafni et al., The T-REX project: Micromegas for Rare Event Searches, 2nd International Conference on Particle Physics (in Memoriam Engin Arık and Her Colleagues), Istanbul (Turkey), June 20th to 25th, 2011 - to be published in Journal of Physics, Conference Series.

I. G. Irastorza et al., Status of R&D on Micromegas for Rare Event Searches: The T-REX project, 3rd International conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter (CYGNUS 2011), Aussois (France) June 8th to 10th, 2011 - to appear in EAS journal.

R. Santorelli, Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with gas-xenon TPCs: R&D for next, 19th Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC11), Cambridge, Massachusetts (US), 24–29 July 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1441, 486 (2012).

M. SorelNeutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC, XXXIX International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Canfranc (Spain), February 7h to 11th, 2011.

2010

I. Liubarsky, NEXT: The Electroluminescence Readout, Fifth Symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection and workshop on neutrinos from Supernovae, Paris (France), December 14th to 17th, 2010 - 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 309 012007.

T. Dafni, Micromegas planes for the neutrinoless double beta decay search with NEXT, Fifth Symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection and workshop on neutrinos from Supernovae, Paris (France), December 14th to 17th, 2010 - 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 309 012009.

J.Martín-Albo, The NEXT experiment - Neutrinoless double deta decay searches at the LSC, Pascos 2010 - 16th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Valencia (Spain), July 19th to 23rd, 2010 - 2010 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 259 012040.

A. Tomás Alquézar, The NEXT experiment: a high-pressure xenon gas (HPGXe) TPC for the search of neutrinoless double-beta decay, ICHEP 2010, Paris (France), July 22nd to 28th, 2010 - PoS (ICHEP 2010) 316.

H. Gómez Maluenda, The NEXT experiment in the new Canfranc Underground Laboratory, 8th International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter, Montpellier (France), July, 2010 - PoS (IDM 2010) 104.

T. Dafni, NEXT: a gaseous-Xe TPC for the neutrinoless double-beta decay, poster presented at NEUTRINO 2010, Athens (Greece), June 14th to 19th, 2010, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 229-232 (2012) 479.

N. Yahlali, I. Irastorza, First NEXT prototypes for double-beta decay search, 12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna (Austria), February 15th to 20th, 2010 - Nucl. Inst. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 628 (2011) 162–165.

2009

P. Novella, NEXT: Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a gas-xenon TPC, TAUP 2009, Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy), July 1st to 5th, 2009 - J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 203 (2010) 012068.

J. J. Gómez-Cadenas, The NEXT Project at LSC, IWDD09, Shangai (China), June 15th and 16th, 2009.

N. Yahlali, NEXT: a Neutrino Experiment with xenon Gas TPC, 11th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors: Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Isola d’Elba (Italy), May 24th to 30th, 2009 - Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A617 (2010) 520-522.

2008

F. Sánchez, NEXT 2b0nu experiment, NOW 2008, Conca Specchiulla, Otranto (Italy), September 6th to 13th, 2008 - Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 188 (2009) 71-73.

M. Ball, NEXT: A neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, Nuclear Science Symposium Conference 2008, October 19th to 25th, 2008, Dresden (Germany) - Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE

M. Ball, R&D activities towards a High Pressure Xenon TPC (NEXT), NuFact08, Valencia (Spain), June 30th to July 5th, 2008 - PoS (Nufact08) 119.

J. Martín-Albo, NEXT: a HPXe TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, NuFact 2008, Valencia (Spain), June 30th to July 5th, 2008 - Pos (Nufact08) 130.

 

Invited talks

L. Arazi, Neutrinoless double beta decay searches: gearing up for the tonne-scale era, invited review talk. INSTR20: Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics, February 24-28, Novosibirsk, Russia.

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Are neutrinos their own antiparticle? What do we talk about, when we talk about neutrinos?, Physics and Ontology conference, 2nd-6th October 2018, Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain).

B. Jones, Topic of the Week: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with Barium Tagging in High Pressure Xenon Gas, August 14th, Fermilab (US).

N. López-MarchNEXT experiment: 0νββ search with High pressure Xe gas TPC, EPFL (Switzerland), November 13th, 2017.

N. López-MarchNEXT experiment: 0νββ search with High pressure Xe gas TPC, Kyoto (Japan), July 4th, 2017.

P. Ferrario, The NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK), March 14th, 2017.

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Nausicaa's beach, Oxford University (UK), February 28th, 2017.

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Ettore Majorana through the looking glass, CERN Colloquium, CERN, January 17th, 2013.

J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Ettore Majorana through the looking glass, Harvard University (US), October 2012.

J. Martín-Albo, The NEXT experiment. A xenon gas TPC for double beta decay searches, Harvard University (US), September 7th, 2011.

Internal Reports

Freitas, E.D.C et al.In Situ calibration of a PMT inside a scintillation detector by means of primary scintillation detection.

Freitas, E.D.C et al.Electroluminescence studies on the influence of percentage quantities of CO2 added to pure xenon.

Freitas, E.D.C et al.R&D Studies on the influence of the addition of percentage quantities of CH4 to pure xenon.

Posters

M. Martínez-Vara, on behalf of the NEXT collaborationMeasurement of the 136Xe ββ2ν half-life with NEXT-White , poster presented at PANIC2021, September 5th to 10th (2021), Lisbon (Portugal).

G. Díaz-López, on behalf of the NEXT collaborationLatest results with the NEXT-White detector , poster presented at Neutrino2020, June 22th to July 2nd (2020), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Chicago (US).

P. Herrero-Gómez, on behalf of the NEXT collaborationBarium capture and identification through bi-color molecular sensors and Two-Photon Absorption microscopy, videoposter presented at Neutrino2020, June 22th to July 2nd (2020), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Chicago (US).

P. Novella, on behalf of the NEXT collaborationNEXT: NEW backgrounds and extrapolation to NEXT-100, poster presented at Neutrino 2018, June 4th to 9th, Heidelberg (Germany).

R.Felkaion behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Characterization of the electron transport properties in pure xenon with NEXT-White and study of helium-xenon mixtures as a promising alternative, poster presented at Neutrino 2018, June 4th to 9th, Heidelberg (Germany).

J. Renner, on behalf of the NEXT collaborationCharacterization of the NEXT-White Detector with Calibration Data, poster presented at Neutrino 2018, June 4th to 9th, Heidelberg (Germany).

M. Nebot-Guinot, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, The NEW detector: construction, commissioning and first results, poster presented at Neutrino 2016, July 4th to 9th, London (United Kingdom).

N. López, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Sensitivity of the NEXT100 detector to 0nubb, poster presented at Neutrino 2016, July 4th to 9th, London (United Kingdom).

P. Ferrario, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Topological signature in the NEXT high pressure xenon TPC, poster presented at Neutrino 2016, July 4th to 9th, London (United Kingdom).

F. Monrabal, V. Álvarez, S. Cárcel, R. Esteve, A. Laing, I. Liubarsky, A. Marí, A. Martínez, J. Rodríguez, M. Querol, C. Sofka, J. Toledo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Development of NEW, towards the first physics results of NEXT, poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

L. Serra, D. Lorca, J. Martín-Albo, A. Laing, M. Sorel, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Latest results of NEXT-DEMO, the prototype of the NEXT 100 double beta decay experiment, poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

M. Nebot-Guinot, P. Ferrario, J. Martín-Albo, J. Muñoz Vidal, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Backgrounds and sensitivity of the NEXT double beta decay experiment, poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

A. Simón, P. Ferrario, A. Izmaylov, A. Cervera, X. García, C. Lerche, F. Monrabal, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Event reconstruction in NEXT using the ML-EM algorithm, poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

T. Dafni, I. Bandac, A. Bettini, on behalf of the NEXT collaboration, Results of the material screening program of the NEXT experiment, poster presented at ICHEP 2014, July 2nd to 9th, Valencia (Spain).

J. Pérez, I. Bandac, S. Cebrián, L. Labarga, The NEXT-100 radiopurity campaign: measurements and resultsposter presented at Neutrino 2014, June 2nd to 7th 2014, Boston (US).

F. Monrabal, V. Álvarez, S. Cárcel, R. Esteve, A. Laing, I. Liubarsky, A. Marí, A. Martínez, J. Rodríguez, M. Querol, C. Sofka, J. Toledo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas on behalf of the NEXT experiment, Development of NEW, towards the first physics results of NEXT, poster presented at Neutrino 2014, June 2nd to 7th 2014, Boston (US).

A. Laing et al. for the NEXT collaboration, Recent results from the NEXT-DEMO prototype, poster presented at Neutrino 2014, June 2nd to 7th 2014, Boston (US).

J. Martín-Albo et al. for the NEXT collaboration, Backgrounds and sensitivity of the NEXT double beta decay experiment, poster presented at Neutrino 2014, June 2nd to 7th 2014, Boston (US).

C. A. B. Oliveira et al.First results in pure high pressure Xe towards the study of Xe+TMA mixtures with Dark Matter directionality sensitivity and supra-intrinsic energy resolution for 0nubb decay searches, poster presented at TAUP2013, September 8th to 13th, Asilomar, California (US), winner of the award for the best poster in Experimental Physics, sponsored by Hamamatsu.

F. Monrabal, A. SimónJ.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Discovering Neutrinoless Double Beta with NEXT-100, poster presented at the XV International Workshop on Neutrinos Telescope, March 11th to 15th 2013, Venice (Italy).

J. Rodríguez et al.Mass production automated test system for the NEXT SiPM tracking plane, poster presented at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Anaheim (US), October 29th to November 3rd, 2012.

R. Esteve et al.The Trigger System in the NEXT-DEMO detector, poster presented at TWEPP 2012, Oxford (UK), September 17th to 21st, 2012.

N. Yahlali et al.Imaging with SiPMs in noble-gas detectors, poster presented at iWoRID 2012, Figueira da Foz (Portugal), July 1st to 5th, 2012.

J. Rodríguez et al.Programmable power supply system for SiPM bias, poster presented at IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Valencia (Spain), October 23rd to 29th, 2011.

P. Ferrario, L. SerraNEXT: a Neutrino Experiment with a high pressure Xenon TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, poster presented at XXXIX International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Canfranc (Spain), February 7h to 11th, 2011.

P. NovellaNEXT: Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay with a gas-xenon TPC, TAUP 2009, Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy), July 1st to 5th, 2009.

J. J. Gómez-Cadenas, Justo Martín-AlboNEXT A HPXe TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay searches , poster presented at NuFact 2008, Valencia (Spain), June 30th to July 5th, 2008 and Neutrino 2008, Christchurch (New Zealand), May 25th to 31st.

 

Theses and dissertations

Alberto Usón Andrés , Measurement of the Xe-136 two-neutrino double beta decay half-life with the NEXT-White detector, Ph.D. Thesis, April 2023.

Carmen Romo Luque, Development of the first PETALO prototype and SiPM studies for neutrino physics, Ph.D. Thesis, January 2023.

Gonzalo Díaz López, Sensitivity of NEXT-100 detector to neutrinoless double beta decay , Ph.D. Thesis, December 2022.

Leslie Rogers, Electroluminescent Signals and Cosmogenic Backgrounds in High Pressure Xenon Gas TimeProjection Detectors , Ph.D. Thesis, December 2022.

Ryan Felkai, Development of low-diffusion techniques for a high pressure xenon electroluminescent TPC, Ph.D. Thesis, April 2022.

Brais Palmeiro Pazos, Low energy calibration, continuous monitoring, and background studies for the NEXT-White detector at the LSC, Ph.D. Thesis, December 2021.

José María Benlloch Rodríguez, The NEXT experiment: DAQ, backgrounds and medical applications, Ph.D. Thesis, September 2020.

Gonzalo Martínez-Lema, Low-energy calibration, reconstruction software and light-collection efficiency parametrization of the NEXT-White detector, Ph.D. Thesis, July 2018.

Javier Muñoz-Vidal, The NEXT path to neutrino inverse hierarchy, Ph.D. Thesis, April 2018.

Miquel Nebot-GuinotCalibration and  background model of the NEW detector at the LSC, Ph.D. Thesis, September 2017.

Javier PérezRadioactive Contamination in Neutrino Experimental Physics: the Cases of NEXT and Super-Kamiokande Experiments, Ph.D. Thesis, September 2017.

Ander SimónEvent reconstruction in NEXT using a ML-EM algorithm, Ph.D. Thesis, September 2017.

Javier RodríguezStudy and design of the front-end and readout electronics for the tracking plane in the NEXT experiment, Ph.D. Thesis, July 2017.

David Lorca, SiPM based tracking for detector calibration in NEXT, Ph.D. Thesis, May 2015.

Justo Martín-AlboThe NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches, Ph.D. Thesis, February 2015.

Francesc MonrabalDemonstration of electroluminescent TPC technology for neutrinoless double beta searches using the NEXT-DEMO detector, Ph.D. Thesis, December 2014.

J. Miguel GarciaLight Conversion and Transmission Studies for the NEXT Experiment, Master Thesis, July 2014.

Mateusz ZaruckiCalibration of the Hamamatsu R11410-10 Photomultipliers for the NEXT-100 Detector, research project within the undergraduate studies in the Imperial College of London, June 2013.

Javier RodríguezFuente de alimentación programable con compensación de temperatura para los fotomultiplicadores de silicio del experimento NEXT (in Spanish), Master Thesis, September 2012.

Ander Simón, Correcciones espaciales a la energía para NEXT (in Spanish), Master Thesis, July 2012.

Miquel NebotDevelopment of wavelength shifter coated reflectors for the NEXT experiment, Master Thesis, December 2011.

Carlos A. B. de Oliveira, Monte Carlo study of electroluminescence in gaseous detectors, Ph.D. Thesis, 2011.

Javier Rodríguez, Diseño y caracterización de la electrónica de acondicionamento para los fotomultiplicadores de la cámara de proyección temporal NEXT-1 (in Spanish), Final project dissertation, September 2011.

David Lorca, Desarrollo y caracterización de fotomultiplicadores de silicio para NEXT (in Spanish), Master Thesis, September 2010.

Javier Pérez, Caracterización de los fotomultiplicadores R8620-06SEL para NEXT (in Spanish), Master Thesis, July 2010.