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

2012; Institute of Physics; Volume: 7; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/1748-0221/7/06/t06001

1748-0221

V. Álvarez, F.I.G.M. Borges, S. Cárcel, J. M. Carmona, J. Castel, J. Catala, S. Cebrián, A. Cervera, D. Chan, C.A.N. Conde, T. Dafní, T.H.V.T. Dias, J. Dı́az, M. S. Egorov, R. Esteve, P. Evtoukhovitch, L. M. P. Fernandes, P. Ferrario, A. L. Ferreira, E. Ferrer-Ribas, E.D.C. Freitas, V.M. Gehman, A. Gil, I. Giomataris, A. Goldschmidt, H. Gómez, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, K González, D. González-Díaz, R.M. Gutiérrez, J. M. Hauptman, J. A. Hernando Morata, D C Herrera, V. Herrero, F.J. Iguaz, I.G. Irastorza, V. A. Kalinnikov, Desmond Kho Teck Kiang, L. Labarga, I. Liubarsky, I. Lopes, D. Lorca, M. Losada, G. Luzón, A. Marí, J. Martín-Albo, A. Martínez, T. Miller, A. Moiseenko, F. Monrabal, C.M.B. Monteiro, José M. Monzó, Francisco Mora, Luiz Moutinho, J. Muñoz Vidal, H. Natal da Luz, G. Navarro, M. Nebot, D. R. Nygren, Bruna R. F. Oliveira, Roberto Palma, J. Pérez, J.L. Pérez–Aparicio, J. Renner, L. Ripoll, A. Soto Rodríguez, José-María Guerrero-Rodríguez, F.P. Santos, J.M.F. dos Santos, L. Seguí, Llorenç Serra, D. Shuman, C. Sofka, M. Sorel, J.F. Toledo, A. Tomás, J. Torrent, Z. Tsamalaidze, D. Domínguez Vázquez, E. P. Velicheva, J.F.C.A. Veloso, J.A. Villar, R. Webb, Th. Weber, J. White, N. Yahlali,

Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the NEXT-100 detector that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (ββ0ν) in 136XE at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC), in Spain. The document formalizes the design presented in our Conceptual Design Report (CDR): an electroluminescence time projection chamber, with separate readout planes for calorimetry and tracking, located, respectively, behind cathode and anode. The detector is designed to hold a maximum of about 150 kg of xenon at 15 bar, or 100 kg at 10 bar. This option builds in the capability to increase the total isotope mass by 50% while keeping the operating pressure at a manageable level.